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http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Fina...
So I guess that we can say for sure (2009-2010 numbers) that online stuff is now loosing money, windows is now doing better that office, and gaming is quite behind but stable and profitable (albeit a lot less that office or windows). Let's be frank too, were talking about billions here, so those segments are quite big.
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So I guess that we can say for sure (2009-2010 numbers) that online stuff is now loosing money, windows is now doing better that office, and gaming is quite behind but stable and profitable (albeit a lot less that office or windows). Let's be frank too, were talking about billions here, so those segments are quite big.
I can't tell you specifics but I can tell you that Microsoft knows the cloud is losing money for now.
This article, like many others, seems to overestimate how large the actual numbers of developers is at Microsoft, as opposed to full teams with Test and mgmt and their associated marketing, sales, etc. organizations. The .NET GC was roughly 1 person (sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more). Most of the base class libraries were one person. Even larger things, like the text editor, were usually a senior pers…
Not to be obtuse, or maybe miss the joke, but how can you sometimes have a little less than 1 person working on one of the most important parts of your runtime? Sounds like a bug more than a feature to me. :)
This article, like many others, seems to overestimate how large the actual numbers of developers is at Microsoft, as opposed to full teams with Test and mgmt and their associated marketing, sales, etc. organizations. The .NET GC was roughly 1 person (sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more). Most of the base class libraries were one person. Even larger things, like the text editor, were usually a senior pers…
Not to be obtuse, or maybe miss the joke, but how can you sometimes have a little less than 1 person working on one of the most important parts of your runtime? Sounds like a bug more than a feature to me. :)
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Windows Live, Bing, Xbox, Servers, Cloud Services... It's easy to bash on them, but they make quality products in a diverse range of markets. Sure they fail and fail big, but who the hell doesn't? If you have made anything successful, you've probably failed 100s of times. It comes with the territory.
Windows Live, Bing, Xbox, Servers, Cloud Services Did you have any examples that contradicted me? All of the above are losing MS money in a BIG way.
"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next." As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
Meanwhile, there was zero mention of anything Macintosh at WWDC this year, meaning we're probably at least a year off from any real news at 10.7, which would put us at 4 years since OS X has had any significant user facing updates.
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Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.
Oddly, Debian has about the same release cycle (once per 12-18 months), and ends up being the butt of lots of jokes about how they rarely ever release anything.
So the jokes may be dated in 2010, but there's a reason they came about in the first place.
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Am I the only person who hates that animation? This is about the only reason why I use Stanza, no animation to waste my time with.
I can't stand it either and I think Kindle has a better e-Book reader than Apple. Amazon did a good job at thinking, "this is not a book... this is not a book" where-as Apple brought all of the physical things from a book into an electronic application.
"The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what's needs to ship next." As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.
Stagnate? Snow Leopard is just under a year old. I wouldn't expect a desktop OS to have a same release frequency as a mobile os.