Thread: Microsoft sees slide in profits

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Not surprising.

Microsoft is starting to get profit for the Xbox? When did that happen, it had always been microsoft's plan to loose money on the Xbox by selling it cheaper and making the money up by skyrocketing game prices.

They're not profiting for the console themselves, he article probably meant that they're profiting off of games.

The only people actually making money from the console itself is Nintendo with the Wii.

Can someone put this in simple laymans terms?

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>> Microsoft sees slide in profits

Originally Posted by slayer

Can someone put this in simple laymans terms?

People are shying away from Microsoft products in favour of Google and Apple products. Windows 7 has to be a big hit, or Microsoft will pull an IBM and shrivel up.

Why did they have to stray so far away from the XP?

Because XP is stable, but horribly out of date compared to other operating systems that Microsoft started to see as competition.

Microsoft should just go under already. Give me something newsworthy to watch on CNN for a change.

the company should be split up, just like IBM and AT&T were in the eighties

(it should have been split up in 1998 when the US government took them to court - but anyhow)

4 separate, independent companies
1 for the OS
1 for the desktop apps (MS Office, etc.)
1 for gaming (Xbox, etc.)
1 for online search & associated bits 'n bobs

This is infinitely better (both from a business perspective, and for consumers) than a single multi-faceted mega-corp

Separate companies with a single focus, rather than 1 large company who uses it's clout in one area to affect economics in another area

MS are being hit with one anti-competitive case after another
why has no-one stepped in and broken them up