Comments on: Microsoft tops earnings forecast

Company says earnings and sales were boosted by strong responses to new products, including the Xbox 360, SQL Server.

[john55440]

Xbox , and...

MS's press release states "Entertainment and Devices Division revenue growth of 70% over the prior year was driven by demand for Xbox 360? consoles, software, peripherals, and Xbox Live®. Xbox 360 has sold 6 million consoles worldwide life to date..."

Not bad, for the folks who will soon be bringing us the Zune.:-)

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/oct06/10-26Q1FY07ERPR.mspx

[Lindy01]

Wow

if you read these forms on a regular basis you would think the whole world hated MS and they would be sinking very fast.

Good thing for MS this communist IT news site with its crazed Firefox/Mac/Linux/AMD fangirls are the minority:):)

[aavera]

Here here

I agree completely. The noisome MS haters on this site go beyond "religious". Well said !! ;)

[qwerty75]

wow is right

Yeah, software and communism has a lot in common.

The only thing constant is the ignorance of MS fans.

[t8]

Google is catching up

Google recently overtook IBM for most valuable company. It is now positioned at no3 and will most likely overtake Cisco in no2 soon.

So it will be Microsoft then Google.

I can't wait for Google to overtake Microsoft. Microsoft has a commanding lead currently, but Google innovation will make sure that it will happen eventually.

[Lindy01]

What

does google really have? A search engine, ad space, free webmail and other apps???

Google makes alot of money on its add space but its not like they sell a server OS.

They are so much precieved wealth.

[orfeu_niko]

Say again?!

Don't mistake market valuation with real value. Google has nothing compared with IBM and MS. IBM, HP are much bigger companies then Google will ever be. They only are old and Wall Street already know them for some time. MS can only hope to became like IBM in the next 20 years.
And what is exactly Google innovating on?

[LikeLinus]

what?

Where exactly did you get that info?

Here's Forbes list of The World's 2000 Largest Public Companies

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/18/06f2k_The-Forbes-2000_Rank.html

Microsoft is ranked 55 and IBM is ranked 22nd.

Google isn't even listed in the Top 100.

Google, while providing a great search engine, really provides nothing more than Ad space and free software. The bubble will burst soon enough when people realize they have nothing more to offer.

What exactly has Google innovated?

[Ryo Hazuki]

...to no. 2, getting farer from no. 1.

If you can't wait for Google to overtake Microsoft, then let me tell you you'll much probably be well dead like me before that ever possibily happens. Microsoft has a huge commanding lead currently and earnin reports like these say it will continue to be so for a long long time.

[crsteele]

Piracy is really hurting Microsoft.... Ha Ha Ha

Microsoft is always whining that priacy is destroying their company.

The earning show that the chief thief is really out of touch with reality.

[KTLA_knew]

Logic?

Your critical thinking skills need a bit of brushing up.

Because MS topped earnings forcasts and continues to make lots of money shows absolutely nothing about whether or not piracy is lowering their bottom line.

I'm not saying piracy does or doesn't affect their bottom line, but I am saying you should stop and think before you post.

[Ryo Hazuki]

Ha Ha Ha?

The fact that Microsoft has huge earning doesn't mean they don't suffer from piracy. Is it hard to understand for someone like you that is possible that if there was no piracy Microsoft's earning would be even bigger?

[qwerty75]

hmm

How much have they sunk into XBOX? Far more then any earnings gained thus far.

As for profits, does it matter? They still can't innovate, can't release secure products, or even treat their paying customers with respect.

MS is still irrelevant and their best days are far, far behind them.

[Andrew J Glina]

Irrelevant?

Err... how and why? How could anything that has 95% market share be irrelevant?