Microsoft's Year-Over-Year Sales Set to Drop for First Time Ever
Microsoft's Year-Over-Year Sales Set to Drop for First Time Ever
Posted 04/24/2009 at 6:49am
| by Paul Lilly
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It's been a tough year for tech all around, a fact which will be underscored when Microsoft reports a year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue for the first time ever. Not even the end of the dot-com boom over a decade ago managed to stop Microsoft from posting an increase.
Current forecasts suggests Microsoft will post quarterly revenue of $14.15 billion for its fiscal third quarter, down from $14.45 billion in the same quarter a year prior. Earnings per share are estimated to be 39 cents, down from 47 cents. The lackluster numbers come just a week after Intel suggested the PC market had bottomed out.
Moving forward, Microsoft cautioned it doesn't expect sales to quickly return to where they were in recent years, and instead to expect slow growth. That could depend on whether or not the software giant is able to release Windows 7 this year or not. While new operating systems can only do so much to push PC sales, the hope (from computer makers) is that Windows 7 could help spur a holiday rush if released early.
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periodhyphenund...
April 24, 2009 at 1:19pm
Sounds like People are waking up to the news all over the internet (Except for Maximum PC) regarding Microsofts $388 million doller fine for stealing the activation technology for Windows and office products.
Since Microsoft cannot legally enter into a licensing aggreement with end users that allows Microsoft and end users to violate other peoples patents or copyrights, is it any wonder that sales are down for the first time?
Ironically however, Michael AuYeung's 8in1 XP CD is determined to be ILLEGAL because it does not require activation through Microsoft and therefore does not violate a 3rd party's patent!
I bet you missed the point so let me rephrase that..
The only LEGAL copy of Windows XP is claimed by Microsoft to be ILLEGAL while the copies you are required to buy from Microsoft are in fact the ILLEGAL versions, AND forcing you to agree to a licence that violates a 3rd parties patents and copyrights renders the licence NULL AND VOID!
I think I'll take the RED PILL now, thanks!
MeTo
April 24, 2009 at 9:51am
Woah is me "NOT" What is good for the company is bad for the employes.
scabbynacker
April 24, 2009 at 11:00am
woe
[woh] -noun
1. grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description. –interjection 3. An exclamation of grief, distress, or lamentation.
Taqueed
April 24, 2009 at 9:26am
Go figure in the US it is the only place where you can lose money while making money. The earning are still ahead of losses they stiull make a profit, but not as much as they want. Using that as a guideline maybe I should claim a loss on my taxes because I did not get a 15% raise just a 3%. I feel like I lost money.
Now MS will be "downsizing" by about 6000 people and next yeat will be requesting even more H1 visas.
Taqueed
April 24, 2009 at 9:26am
Go figure in the US it is the only place where you can lose money while making money. The earning are still ahead of losses they stiull make a profit, but not as much as they want. Using that as a guideline maybe I should claim a loss on my taxes because I did not get a 15% raise just a 3%. I feel like I lost money.
Now MS will be "downsizing" by about 6000 people and next yeat will be requesting even more H1 visas.
Taqueed
April 24, 2009 at 9:26am
Go figure in the US it is the only place where you can lose money while making money. The earning are still ahead of losses they stiull make a profit, but not as much as they want. Using that as a guideline maybe I should claim a loss on my taxes because I did not get a 15% raise just a 3%. I feel like I lost money.
Now MS will be "downsizing" by about 6000 people and next yeat will be requesting even more H1 visas.
scabbynacker
April 24, 2009 at 10:57am
And apparently wherever you're from is the only place you can make quadruple posts and not be ridiculed.
Nobody is saying Microsoft is claiming a loss. Just that their sales fell for the first time since their inception. Still a significant situation to be in, at least for Microsoft.
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