Mad Dog 21/21: One-Trick Pony, But What a Trick!
February 1, 2010 Hesh Wiener
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Microsoft‘s net income during its second fiscal quarter, the calendar’s fourth, was up by a stunning 60 percent. The company’s revelation showed net income of $6.66 billion on sales of $19.02 billion; a third of Microsoft’s intake went to the bottom line. By way of comparison, IBM earned $4.81 billion, or 17.7 percent of its $27.23 billion in revenue, nearly half of it from software that accounted for a quarter of Big Blue’s intake. Microsoft’s success was even more concentrated. A third of its revenue and five-eighths of its profit came from Windows for PCs. The good news is |
