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outlawauron on 24 August 2008

Well...he may or may not be right but do you know who this guy is from? You know...Acclaim. A company who's making like...no money. Ironic coming from him.

That just makes him an expert on not making money, and therefore gives his words more weight in this discussion.

 
The top is a quote got wrong from Soriku. The bottom is my response.

And Because he is an expert on how to not make money, why or how would he have any knowledge on the process to go from loss to profit?



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noname2200 on 24 August 2008

@outlawauron:
Black fairy magic. Duh.

Or I was being sarcastic. One of the two. ;)



DMeisterJ on 24 August 2008

Who the fuck broke the thread?



JaggedSac on 24 August 2008
noname2200 said:

Certainly, and I apologize for not doing so sooner. I won't be able to give you all the sources, since many of them are in print or were read by me quite a while ago, but here's one from last year that I scrounged up fairly quickly.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/309852_software02.html

Here's a sample for Q2 2008 (Q1 was good, and obviously, the full-year report isn't complete, and won't be until April 2009).

http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=179255

Other recent reports have been fairly negative. The Wall Street Journal and my local paper, the Mercury News, routinely post pessimistic stories about Microsoft's outlook (although the latter is a Silicon Valley paper, so some bias towards the locals should be expected). There are others that I can scrounge up, if given more time.

Again though, I want to reiterate that Microsoft isn't going down anytime soon. However, they are slipping from their high, and there's investor pressure on them to find their focus again. How Microsoft will respond remains to be seen, but I think the Yahoo! situation is a strong indicator: right now Balmer prefers to buy their way into a market, rather than start from the grass roots and grow from there. But I'm getting off-topic here, so...enjoy the links?

 

Thanks, I tried to google this stuff but I couldn't find anything.  I guess I am a search noob.  Interesting stuff.



bbsin on 24 August 2008
DMeisterJ said:
Who the fuck broke the thread?

 

noname2200 , outlawauron is a possibility as well.

But it's really Jaggedsac's fault for asking for the data in the first place.



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psrock on 24 August 2008

what the hell happened?



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jman8 on 24 August 2008
outlawauron said:

Well...he may or may not be right but do you know who this guy is from? You know...Acclaim. A company who's making like...no money. Ironic coming from him.[/quote]

That just makes him an expert on not making money, and therefore gives his words more weight in this discussion.

 

 

 

And Because he is an expert on how to not make money, why or how would he have any knowledge on the process to go from loss to profit? [/quote]

Best. Post. Yet. I'm glad someone else is calling out Dave Perry. This guy is just trying to keep his name in the public eye b/c he hasn't made anything notable in a decade. Judging by this thread, he has won.

 



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noname2200 on 24 August 2008
bbsin said:
DMeisterJ said:
Who the fuck broke the thread?

 

noname2200 , outlawauron is a possibility as well.

But it's really Jaggedsac's fault for asking for the data in the first place.

Hey, MY post came out fine: it's outlawauron's that the first funky one!

And besides, he had a right to ask for the data. Without such support, I might've just been talking out of my a**. This doesn't mean I'm not, but at least this way I have something factual to point to!

 



deathgod33 on 24 August 2008

microsoft lost more on its console than sony did. but they got the money back with software sales. its quite common to lose money on consoles, people are acting as if ps3 is the first to do so.



 

 

 

 

outlawauron on 24 August 2008

Yes. It looks like I broke the thread. Sorry guys.



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