Re: System i Revenue Up

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here's a not so rosy note from The Motley Fool via Slashdot:

The Vista disaster has caught Wall Street's attention before but I've 
never seen the popular press understand the issues like this argument in 
the Motley Fool. The opposing argument is a weak statement of faith, 
essentially "as it was in the beginning is now and forever shall be." 
"You don't need to watch the 'I'm a Mac, I'm a PC' commercials to see 
that Microsoft is taking a beating. You see it in the company's 
financials where its online unit, incredibly, is operating at a loss; 
overheating Xbox 360 consoles find the company taking a huge warranty 
hit for a system losing market share to the Wii; and the upgrade wave of 
its flagship operating system has been more of a ripple than a tsunami. 
That last point is important. This was supposed to be Microsoft's final 
feast, the major last hurrah for its Windows Vista operating entry and 
its Office 2007 suite of applications before the inevitable embrace of 
cheaper open source operating systems and Web-based apps... In fact, 
even Microsoft will tell you that its fortunes peaked several months ago."

Steve Richter wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 10:15 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > I finally found a photo of Steve:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/images/exec/billg_bio.jpg
> >
> >     
>
> now that fellow, he is a computer executive.  just in from the WSJ, MSFT net
> up 79% this past quarter.
>