Microsoft Earnings Announcement - July 22nd 2010

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kowenicki said:

Slimebeast said:

$15.3 billion is less than Apple's $15.7 billion.

revenue is expected to be less.... profit is where its at...

Yeah but profits tend to go into shareholders pocket. There's not a practical difference between Apple's $3.5 billion in profits versus MS' estimated $5 billion.

They both have the same resources to spend on reaserch and development measured as a percentage óf that huge revenue. So in practice Apple is just as strong as Microsoft now.