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dallas on 29 January 2013
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slowmo said:
dallas said:
Carl2291 said:
Are profits down YoY?


http://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Financials/FY13/Q2/IncomeStatements.aspx

Yes, down by almost 2 billion.  For the life of me, I can't understand why so many people are cheering the latest earnings. 

 

And now, MSFT has blown its wad by selling a bunch of Windows liscences with a discount, but when it ups the price, well the higher price and inherent unpopularity of the product will make Win8 sales pretty bad.

 

I don't see that many people crowing these results as great, there is just a general surprise at the shipping amount for the 360 given the numbers we've shown on this site.  We've not had a case of potential undertracking this bad since the PS3 in 2009.  Also given the investment in R&D and marketing of new products these results are pretty decent results anyway.  Not surprised you can't see the good news in these earnings though given your irrational hatred of Microsoft your posts generally show.

It's not "good" news, but merely alright.