DirtyP2002 said:
MS can afford it. Well it is strange to say a company facing more and more competition and is not made of money like it was, when you see they are making more and more money every single year.
2008 it was something like $60,000,000,000 revenue. So why do you think, MS is running out of money?
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For the same reasons I posted: they're losing money. The chart you posted, while not useless, is limited solely to Microsoft's revenue. Revenue is great, but it is not the same as profit (which is far, far more important). Microsoft's profits have been steady, but it's been spending massive amounts to try and keep either grow in areas beyond its OS division, or to gain ground in places like the MP3 arena (and in the X-Box 360...) that they now have much less cash reserves than they had a measly two years ago (to repeat, they've lost over $30 billion in cash reserves in just two years, which is huge). In fact, now that I think of it I can only recall a small handful of financial articles that are even remotely positive on Microsoft's future prospects. The latter fact alone doesn't guarantee anything, of course, but the former does tell us that Microsoft is headed to financial troubles if it doesn't shape up quickly, and again investors are started to become unhappy with Microsoft's direction in many ways.
