Microsoft Still Making More $$$ Than Apple
Yes, Microsoft is still making more money than Apple.
Apple on Tuesday reported earnings of $15.7 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.25 billion or $3.51 per diluted share. With successful launches of both the iPad and iPhone 4, Apple was pretty pleased with its quarterly report for the third quarter of its fiscal year, but was it enough to beat long-time rival, Microsoft?
In the run up to Microsoft's earnings call, which took place yesterday, there was speculation that this could be the first time Apple actually made more money than Microsoft. However, the Redmond-based company has since revealed revenues of $16.04 billion – which is ahead of estimates from Wall Street – and a net profit of $4.52 billion (a 48 percent increase over last year), or $0.51 per share per diluted share.
Microsoft also revealed that it has sold 175 million Windows 7 licenses and 1.5 million Xboxes. The company reported an Xbox Live subscriber base of more than 25 million.
It's certainly a different picture to the one painted last year, when Microsoft reported its first annual sales decline in company history. However, not every department is making boatloads of money. FastCompany reports that "Online services," (Bing, Bing Maps, etc.) was the only major sector of Microsoft to lose money, but things aren't all bad there, either as Microsoft reports Bing growth has been up for 13 consecutive months.
Because this was Microsoft's fourth fiscal year quarter, Redmond also released numbers for its fiscal year ended June 30, 2010. For FY2010, the company reported revenue of $62.48 billion, a 7 percent increase from the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the year were $24.10 billion, $18.76 billion and $2.10, which represented increases of 18 percent, 29 percent and 30 percent, respectively.

I'm sure the profit on each iPhone 4 is more than the 10 cents it costs to make a rubber case.
I am also glad to see Apple catch up a little bit, not because I like Apple products, but because both companies will push harder to create better products when they feel threatened by one another. Which in the end can only be better for the consumer.
I'm sure the profit on each iPhone 4 is more than the 10 cents it costs to make a rubber case.
Well, duh... For the same reasons that soccer is more popular than football.
Yeah, what happened to that?, it was really funny...
Why is this news?
The pic above to me looks like he's saying "BOO-YAH!"
Really, no real benefit of using Windows in an environment with AD, Exchange, Sharepoint, OCS, SCCM, etc. etc.? Yes, our government should hire a ton of developers to develop a version of Linux that acts just like Windows in a Windows environment...or just use Windows...which is what they should and will do.
There's definitely a place for Linux, but it's not in replacing desktops in an environment like that.
And did I just see someone running with rampant misspellings and bad grammar call Jane an idiot? Nah... really?
Gates has virtually nothing to do with MS anymore, and how that charity would have anything to do with making one company less evil than the other is beyond me. Both companies are not humans, they don't have emotions. They have directives and agendas and goals. Depending on your stance either could be evil and either could be good. Apple's agenda is to think of the user environment first, to turn a blind eye to what everyone else is doing and carve their own path. Microsoft's agenda is to provide software that is more or less utilitarian and generic so that it fits in many environments. Being creative is not one of their high points. Apple does hardware, Microsoft does very little. Microsoft is trying hard to capture some of what Apple is peddling, because, it genuinely is good stuff. When you've got 10s of thousands of Microsoft employees touting iPhones and iPods, it should tell you something.