TheRealMafoo said:
JaggedSac said:
TheRealMafoo said:
TheBigFatJ said:
TheRealMafoo said:
I don't count the first XBox. That we should just write off as a loss, and start over.
If you feel you need to include previous gaming revenue, you would have to include PC gaming as well, and if you did that, they would already be out of the red, by tens of billions.
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MS hasn't made that much in PC gaming. They don't get revenues for all windows released games, just their own. If you include PC gaming, MS is still in the red almost certainly.
Yes, of course you include the original Xbox. MS does -- they promised this generation would bring profit to the xbox division from the beginning. By itself, the 360 will probably never generate a profit overall, though.
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Not to turn this into a Mac vs PC thread, but if you take gaming out of the equation, there is not a single reason to buy a PC over a Mac. Linux is not a bad solution either, if you can live with old versions of Office.
One of the things that keeps the PC industry where it is, is gaming. I just spent $750 on a new Gaming PC, and installed Vista. Apple does not have an alternative for me (as I type this on my Mac Book Pro).
It's hard to quantify how much gaming has meant to Microsoft, but it's a lot.
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Wrong. Businesses are M$'s main money market. They are in heavily with businesses which is one of the main reasons why Windows is so bloated. They must keep all businesses legacy code working with newer operating systems. Other OSs do not have this problem. Microsoft works very hard at helping businesses incorporate their software whereas other companies do not. Apple does not have very good customer support for big businesses and quite honestly they do not care to. They enjoy their market of trendy people and artists. Gaming is a good way for the masses to keep with Windows but as long as businesses continue to develop and interate with Windows, M$ will continue to rake in the cash.
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It's funny. The world changes very fast these days, but peoples perception of the market place does not. Apple is no longer the system for hippies and artists. It's a very powerful business machine. Many companies have moved to web apps for almost all of there internal applications. I am not sure if you work in an office, but if you do, how often do your employees use something other then a web browser, or an MS Office tool? Most people never do. The biggest issue that stands in the way of a company like Apple taking over the business world, is IT training.
Apple is already clost to 20% market share in the US, and that is not all homes.
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Most people never use their office pcs for anything other than web browsing and ms offices?...are you serious? What about retail sales programs? Point of sales machines? Software which access the company database? Inventory programs? Accounting programs? The biggest problem is not IT training. If you wanted to attribute it to one major thing, it would be because business/enterprise software makers don't make software for MACs.
I have worked for 3 different small~medium size companies. And yes we did use webs apps, but that was a very very small part. Most companies do NOT use web apps...developing web apps is not cheap. Our third party software ran from our windows server database, which is the platform it was designed for. Client software was only made for windows. We ran a domain from a windows servers. We ran our mail system from an exchange server. Mail was checked using outlook.
You're crazy if you believe that Mac's can replace PC's in the work place.
