General / Off-Topic Microsoft posts record losses

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Microsoft today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and unsurprisingly, the massive $7.6 billion write down for its Nokia purchase last year tanked any chances of it turning a profit. The write down pushed Microsoft's losses to $2.1 billion for the quarter. Excluding the write down and related charges, Microsoft's other businesses earned a profit of $6.4 billion on $22.2 billion in revenue.

The company notes that its revenue from Windows OEMs declined 22 percent due to cutting off support for Windows XP,
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http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/21/9010403/microsoft-earnings-report-q4-2015

Anyone think they will get the message?

Or will it be more of the same, because they can never be wrong?

Personally, if there were any viable alternatives to Windows, I'd be out like a shot.
 

Asp Explorer

Asp Explorer
IF there were alternatives to Windows that could reliably and effortlessly run Windows programs with no performance degradation or incompatibilities then many people would!

The main kicker is that there exist programs that will only ever work on certain Windows platforms, and some businesses completely rely upon those for a multitude of reasons. Wether it's an accounting package, drivers for their printers, or tooling software for CNC machines - whatever, until there is something else this stuff will work on - they have no choice in the matter.
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
With the software park for windows (and windows itself), installed in the world, I imagine if Microsoft goes bankrupt and disappears
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
No, we don't.

But with the recent list of astonishingly bad decisions made by M$ it's little wonder they are posting losses.

They seem, in many respects, to be comparable to Disney after Walt. A company once associated with quality and detail, reducted to churning out endless computer generated stereotypes hoping that eventually, one might succeed.

There is such an enormous potential market out there. I looked at Steam's latest Linux based OS, it was terrible. I couldn't even start to use it until I had given it a credit card number.
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Asp Explorer said:
IF there were alternatives to Windows that could reliably and effortlessly run Windows programs with no performance degradation or incompatibilities then many people would!

The main kicker is that there exist programs that will only ever work on certain Windows platforms, and some businesses completely rely upon those for a multitude of reasons. Wether it's an accounting package, drivers for their printers, or tooling software for CNC machines - whatever, until there is something else this stuff will work on - they have no choice in the matter.
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Seems to me, if a company would only try to think outside the box and see the huge potential of creating an OS aimed primarily at the home market, rather than business, they could get aound many of these compatability problems.

Most home users want to view photos with basic editing, view videos, print a few things, send email, surf the net, some drawing packages and play games.

A company like Frontier for example, could easily cater for that market. The problems of integrating some of the more complex accounting software simply would arise.

With a bit of thought, a lot of money could be made here.
 

GJ51

GJ51
Let me know when you buy your first graphics card that doesn't have a WHQL driver available.

Then I'll start to worry about the viability of MS
 
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