In comp.os.linux.advocacy, DFS
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on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 22:49:02 -0400
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> I STILL say Microsoft is DOOMED...
>
> You can say what you want. Linux idiots have been braying the same thing
> for 10 years, and they'll bray it for the next 10.
>
> Not that any of you care, but it makes you appear stupid.
>
DFS does have a point. Even if all sales of Microsoft
products were cut off tomorrow, Microsoft has enough cash
to operate for almost a year at their current burn rate
-- *without* layoffs. ("Burn rate" as I define it here
-- I'm probably way off -- is total operating expenses,
about 21.905B. Presumably such things as cost of sales
and income taxes would vanish under such a scenario.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual
[Note in particular how well their gross profit is
expanding: from 33.588B to 40.429B, a 20% increase over
the span of just two years. This is not a dying company,
by any means. One could wish otherwise, of course.]
Total cash on hand is 21.06B.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MSFT )
Expect Microsoft to be around awhile -- probably outlasting
the next Administration, in fact, absent further court actions
(such as a total dissolution of the corporation, which is
extremely unlikely).
Certainly it will outlast the current bunch o' idiots.
Especially since Vista is selling well -- if only because
people feel they can't avoid it. (Except that they can,
if they look around a bit.)
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to fix your Windows problems?
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