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Comments on: Microsoft updates Vista SP1 test build

Software maker says it is still on track to wrap up work on the service pack this quarter, with Windows XP Service Pack 3 planned before the end of June.

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More good news from MS
by mailbox001 January 24, 2008 3:29 PM PST
Although MS lost the PR/Marketing war fact remains all their business divisions are profitable while Apple won the marketing war but still lives in a fantasy world when you look at their forecast.
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Yawn....
by RompStar_420 January 24, 2008 4:18 PM PST
While apple doesn't make as much as Window (True That), they are rapidly getting much better, not just by a 1% better.

Apple shipped 2,319,000 Macintosh® computers, representing 44 percent unit growth and 47 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 22,121,000 iPods during the quarter, representing five percent unit growth and 17 percent revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. Quarterly iPhone? sales were 2,315,000.

?Apple?s revenue grew 35 percent year-over-year to $9.6 billion, an increase of almost $2.5 billion over the previous December quarter?s record-breaking results".

You can say that those are bad numbers, unlike Microsoft, Apples stock has gone up a lot, so you will have profit taking when the situation is right.

All I know is that the last time I paid for Windows was when 98SE came out, never used it since. When was the last time that Microsoft earning were audited ?
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They really need this
by www.hdgreetings.com January 24, 2008 4:55 PM PST
It's amazing so much work went into Vista yet it was the least exiting version of Windows yet.
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What...
by gginf January 25, 2008 9:09 AM PST
check you facts...M$ is watched very closely by Wall Street. You would see MSFT, GOOG going up for rest of quarter and AAPL going down in the same period.
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