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We knew that Microsoft's quarter was going to be a rough one after it announced a $7.6 billion write-down of the Devices and Services division it purchased from Nokia last year, and so it has come to pass: on revenue of $22.2 billion, the company had a gross margin of $14.7 billion, an operating loss of $2.05 billion, a net after-tax loss of $3.20 billion, and a $0.40 loss per share.
This was driven by a $7.5 billion goodwill and asset impairment charge from Nokia Devices and Services, coupled with a new $0.78 billion restructuring charge, and a further $0.16 billion cost for integration and previously announced restructuring. In total, the company booked $8.4 billion of losses in the quarter.
This loss eclipses the $0.49 billion loss in that fourth quarter of its 2012 fiscal year that was driven largely by the $6.2 billion write-down of the aQuantive advertising firm.
But even absent that massive hit, the quarter wasn't a good one. That $22.2 billion of revenue is down 5 percent on the same quarter last year, and excluding the one-off Nokia charges, operating income was $6.39 billion, down 3 percent year on year. The company's Device and Consumer segment was down sharply, as sales of non-volume-licensed Windows and Office continued their fall on the back of a weak PC market: Windows license revenue from OEM preinstalls was down 22 percent, and consumer sales of Office were down 42 percent. Windows Phone revenue was down an even sharper 68 percent, due to a decrease in royalty payments, though sales of Lumia hardware were up more than 10 percent to 8.4 million, compared to 7.5 million in the same quarter a year ago.
Microsoft (MS) Office has always been a main revenue engine for them, so the 42 percent drop in consumer sales may be the most sobering part of the report, not so much for total sales (corporate are what's important) but as a canary in the coal mine for Office.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Thursday July 23 2015, @12:09PM
Then go right ahead and update every half year (LOL, please do!) because it will just shit on its own drivers faster because as I have demonstrably proved with the Hairyfeet challenge Torvalds driver model DOES NOT WORK. Tell me friend, how many others use his "proven" model? Answer ZERO, not even BSD or Haiku uses his design because again it does not work. Sure it worked when all Linux drivers could be passed along with the OS on a single floppy, but when you are talking over 100,000 drivers, with thousands more released every year? Basic math will show that you end up with a mythical man month situation, which Linux has had since the early 00s.
So please PROVE ME WRONG, it costs you nothing, takes only a couple hours, yet NOT A SINGLE ONE of these Linux defenders will take such a simple challenge, why? Because they know what will happen, Linux will shit on its own drivers because Torvalds driver schema is shit.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday July 23 2015, @09:29PM
Again, i point out the problem i had with modem drivers and windows:
windows asking me if i want to download the modem drivers off the internet when i could not connect to the internet without the modem drivers.
Dumb operating system.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Thursday July 23 2015, @11:48PM
Oh and allow me to ROFLCopter for being labeled "troll" for actually asking Linux updates not to shit on the drivers because if that doesn't show how fucking sad and willing to take shit the Linux community is? Nothing will.
I Mean when MSFT tried to push Windows Mist8ke, did we take that shit? FUCK NO we got mad! We slammed it to the wall, told everybody to avoid it like an STD, and now that shit is being dumped next to Windows ME and we are getting what we asked for, which was Win 7 with more speed!
Yet here I am, showing you with one simple little test, using nothing but Linux on bog standard hardware YOU choose that Linux has a fundamental and FATAL FLAW, a flaw that no other supported OS in 2015 has BTW, not even OS/2 Warp (which is still updated and sold as Ecomstation BTW) and yet what is the reaction of the Linux community? Get pissed at ME because their devs handed them a shit sandwich and said "eat up chumps". Hell they rammed first Pulse and then systemd down your throats, even though the majority clearly said DO NOT WANT, and what did you do? Take the shit or in a tiny minority case let them run you off...fucking sad man, just fucking sad.
For fucks sake people STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES, refuse to just take what you are handed because its free because your time fixing their fuck ups is NOT free, and demand better! How the hell is things ever gonna get better for Linux if nobody is willing to stand up for even basic fucking functionality like "my system should update without shitting on itself"? Come on guys, its 2015 and Linux can't do what Windows could in 2000, its time to pitch a shitfit and DEMAND BETTER.
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