Numbers That Microsoft Cannot Let You See
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2010-02-15 10:46:47 UTC
- Modified: 2010-02-15 10:46:47 UTC
Summary: A sobering look at how Microsoft is declining in most areas
ONE READER has sent us a pointer to this chart which shows what a financial disaster the online business has been to Microsoft.
Have a look at it. No wonder
Microsoft has lost over $5,000,000,000 in just a few years despite claiming "success".
We wonder when Microsoft will finally decide to do what it should have done years ago: Save its money and flush its entire online division down the drain.
Might it actually happen? Microsoft has many other "money pits" and
dead products/divisions. Another financial disaster is
Windows Mobile. Even the Seattle press, which is deep in Microsoft's pocket, has
not anything positive to say about it. Microsoft tried to acquire someone else's mobile business and failed badly:
Microsoft suffered another blow when users of the Sidekick, a T-Mobile USA device whose services are run by Microsoft subsidiary Danger, lost their contacts and other data for several weeks. They publicly ranted about it on Twitter and other social networks for just as long.
Microsoft is
being sued by Sidekick users right now. We previously wrote about Sidekick in:
So there. Microsoft may wish for people to miss or forget the billions of dollars the company loses outside its core units; but the numbers speak for themselves and Microsoft's financial decline carries on [
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4]. We must not let Microsoft get away with
controlling the press and telling lies about its own performance.
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"They're [Microsoft] hell-bent on dominating the entire information infrastructure of the world, and it scares the daylights out of me."
--Antitrust attorney Gary Reback
Comments
mcinsand
2010-02-15 14:14:35
your_friend
2010-02-15 22:02:12
It is satisfying to finally see market forces overcome Microsoft's market manipulation. The US Justice Department continues to fail. No one should have the power Microsoft did and computing should be free. Better laws will come when Microsoft is gone.
Roy Schestowitz
2010-02-16 00:01:38