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- Inqu, on 10/12/2007, -18/+229I guess, contrary to popular Digg belief, Microsoft isn't going away any time soon.
- replica, on 10/12/2007, -25/+130Very true. Microsoft is stronger than ever.
- ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -8/+87(Exxon): 5 billion? lol, nubs.
- emiles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+71@pipdip:
I'm a student in the physics department at UC Santa Barbara, and Microsoft is currently funding a group of top-notch researchers who are looking into new forms of computing (so-called topological quantum computation and yes, it's as fancy as it sounds). Just letting you know that not all of MS's $'s are going into marketing and buggy software.
http://stationq.ucsb.edu/ - Lynn, on 10/12/2007, -16/+73$5 Billion in cash profits every 3 months is not a good sign for the MS haters. This has pushed Microsoft`s cash horde to $40 Billion.
- kutza, on 10/12/2007, -57/+114I like Vista and I like MS. They by far make the best products; regardless if you like open source or not, it's true. As for the price I agree it's pretty overpriced for the individual, but just go to launch events, they give away their SW for free (I have over $2500 worth of software given away free just from the last 3 MS events I went to).
@Mootabolife Vista isn't perfect, but it's better than Linux. Linux you basically learn to deal with bugs and issues all the time, that's what they mean by a steep learning curve. However, my 11 year old sister can pick up a copy of windows and have at it. Linux is great, but it's nowhere close to being an end-to-end solution like Windows. - Inqu, on 10/12/2007, -39/+94Sorry to hear that, I've done pretty well myself selling Vista with great results reported by the end user.
It's not all doom and gloom. The vocal minority is rarely the majority. - hendzen, on 10/12/2007, -13/+59I dual-boot Ubuntu(Fiesty) and Vista(Home Premium), even though it's expensive, you can get a great deal by buying the system builder OEM editions.
I find myself using vista more and more however. I hate to admit it, myself being a supporter of free software, but vista kicks ass. I love the interface, the support(which has been flawless), and the availability of high quality software and drivers. It's nice not having to search through forums on how to get some random component working. I - MoeB, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Apple Market Cap: 85.19B
Microsoft Market Cap: 284.96B
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HMMMMMMMMMM - Hazardc, on 10/12/2007, -16/+56kinda goes against every article every linux/mac fanwanker has posted since vista was released eh?
i use everything, just think it's stupid people knock vista so much, it's not that bad. i still use xp for the most part though... vista on the new box. not going out of my way to pay a bunch of money for everything else. - shakeeb, on 10/12/2007, -20/+52Ha, my dad just bought some MS stock options this morning, and he doubled his money after the market closed.
New TV =) - HideoKojima, on 10/12/2007, -12/+42Steve Blowjobs could never match that.
- digboy99, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33Proof that what you see on Digg is sometimes not reality, but instead, the efforts of certain people trying to push agendas. I wonder how many other B.S. themes there are floating around here.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+38Don't the "M$" haters realize that all their bitching (attempting to sway people
away from Microsoft's products?) has had ZERO effect ?
Suck it! - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25I would suggest that Office 2007 may have had just a little to do with it as well.
- jennamalia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26You own MSFT stock, too? ;)
- shteinb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Stock price has very little to do with a company's size or power. Berkshire Hathaway class A has a price of over 100,000 a share, you think its thousands of times more powerful than MSFT or Apple? If you want a reasonable measure of a companies power you can look at profits, market capitalization, or the number of outstanding shares(and consider their price).
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+29UAC can be disabled by unchecking the box in the user account control panel.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Here's a screenshot: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3241/uacbf1.png
- Gizza, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I find it hard to believe that anyone who complains about the UAC has actually used Vista. After the initial setup, installing drivers, program etc, you barely see it. Maybe fairly often in the first week of use and then after that its very rarely.
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Yeah but the risk is very low and plus they pay dividends. It's probably the most stabilized stock in existence. People don't buy MS for a quick dollar, they buy it for the long term.
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Maybe not, but I would settle for a measly 0.5 billion dollars a quarter for myself.
- mobilebuddha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17i'm sure the share price alone is the BEST indicator of how well a company is doing, financially.
/sarcasm.
go back to stock market 101 please. you fail. - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Haha, even seven year olds know that doesn't matter when it comes to a company's net worth, or overall power.
See: "Stock split". - magic6435, on 10/12/2007, -15/+30"anti-trust suits for the last decade"
You don't seem to be making the connection in your argument about quality..... what do the anti-trust suits have to do with damn good software. - Barlo_Mung, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19"With Dell offering XP again, I think you know what's really going on."
So Dell is offering one flavor of a MS product or a different flavor of a MS product.
At this point MS is happy people are still buying XP. MS still makes a profit from the sale and many of these same people a year from now will be buying the upgrade version of Vista which has a higher margin. win-win for MS.
It's not as if Dell were offering OSX options or something. - grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Sales never go down. They just go up by less ;)
And yes, everyone agrees this bubble has a large thank you card to the Vista vouchers. - Gogogo111, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19Yeah, Apple is a strong company, because they have a product out that everyone uses. The iPod, and with good earnings and a low float, it's a pretty nice stock.
Just don't be an Apple fanboy okay? Your avatar is a little misleading. - GyroTech, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@PueSi
I've run a fileserver with ext3 over an LVM partition (basically a load of old hard drives slapped together to look like one partition) for over 3 years now. Two of those years were spent at uni in a shared house with 4 major geeks... We used it to store all our music & movies, as well as backup copies of games and BitTorrent downloads. In all that time and with heavy useage, it's only ever reached 3% fragmentation. My Vista box however, hits that within a month of useage. - V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -7/+21In other news 150 new Linux derivatives just launched to cloud the waters even further...
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The truth had to come out sooner or later... It was me. It was all me.
I bought ever copy of Vista I could find. I bought exactly 12,325,000 copies of Vista Ultimate. That's where they got their $4.93 billion. I'm sorry, I just love Microsoft! - CompanyMan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18I guess thats to all the nay sayers here on DIgg! proving somebody is buying Vista
- mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -18/+29Msft stock went up nearly 5% after hours.
Vista is pretty neat.. but in the month I've used it, it's clear that it is still very buggy. I actually had to do a full system restore earlier this week. - betterth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@donelson
Someones been drinking the anti-MS kool-aid. Look, I understand you want to feel accepted, but perhaps, trolling on Digg insulting one of the most profitable companies in the world isn't the best way. Sure, you may get dugg up a couple of times, but mostly people people are laughing at you, not with you.
As for "the poor bastards that bought Vista" there are many, many of us running Vista who, I guarentee, are more successful and more technically intelligent than you are. I run Vista and could not be more happy.
Have you even used Vista, or are you just so inherently biased that you hate because it's cool to?
Vista has made a large jump in productivity for me and I could not go back to WinXP now. The little things, like integrating search and run into a single box thats accessible by a single button have made the difference for me. I love Vista and have _absolutely_ no regrets -- I've used it exclusively since Beta2 and gone through all the release candidates until getting it after release.
And for the record I'm a gamer and I game just fine on Vista. Again, another feature I love, the "Games" portion, you open the start menu and click games. A box opens up with all the games you install. It auto-detects new games for you. Oh look, I have Diablo 2 installed. Windows downloads box art for the game, downloads the recommended specs, then shows me my specs against the required specs. It does this for every game I have installed, even those I've installed via Steam. Very handy way to find all my games quickly and in one place.
But I digress -- Congrats Microsoft, may stronger competition lead to better OS's. - neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -7/+18"It's nice not having to search through forums on how to get some random component working."
I'm not trying to flame (I like Vista much better than XP actually) but at least you can search through forums with Linux. I had a few fairly major "random component" problems with Vista and there were no forums for me to search for solutions. :( The problems weren't anything that Microsoft could help with either so availability of support on that end was moot.
You make a great point though. - Palaceguard, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16Of course Steve Jobs can't match it, he's too busy with the iPhone that only cingular/at&t customers can buy.
- lat47, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13ryanissuper - "You can buy a stock, but you can't buy stock options."
Sure you can. There are puts and call on MSFT. Happens all the time. Small swing in the stock makes a big swing in your investment. Very risky. Very profitable.
You are thinking of incentive stock options for employees. Totally different thing. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16And 'some day' the earth will get sucked into the sun, its just NOT going to happen any time soon!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17You can buy a stock, but you can't buy stock options.
Stock options are a guaranteed price you can buy a stock at. You earn this privilege normally for having worked at a company.
Also, I don't see how your dad could double his money when a stock goes up 5%. I only see how he could make 5%. - Szandor, on 10/12/2007, -8/+18Yeah, 'cause all us Mac/Linux/Novell users are anti-capitalist pinko commies.
Idiot. - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Being dugg down by the average anti-MS moron on Digg.
- etnu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This just in: Microsoft is a really large company that makes a lot of money.
More at 11. - mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Apple's share volume is much smaller than Microsoft's, thus the expensive price. (you are buying a larger proportion of the company with each share of Apple than you are with a share of Microsoft).
- th3wiz4rd, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Yay!
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I bought Vista Home Prem for 119 on sale I personally like Vista and have XP as back up, but all my games run and installed fine. I have no issues running my basic computer needs other then Zone Alarm not working but I can wait.
- PueSi, on 10/12/2007, -19/+28Ext3 does fragment, *****.
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11> doesn't disabling UAC defeat the security of Vista?
It turns off the UAC prompts (like pressing Allow every time). Basically brings security back to a XP SP2 level. - neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I only own MS stock via a mutual fund. It is included as one of the major stocks in many mutual funds because of it's long-term stability and the fact that it pays dividends.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10***** owned. I dumped $50k worth of Apple stock when it hit 90 a couple months back thinking it would stagnate, and ive been kicking myself for it. Luckily i put 90% of that money into microsoft. God, i love tech.
- sc0tt, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16@ skyshock21
"...The MAJOR information systems in the world's largest databases..."
Heh, I'd call Fuji film, Barclay's and tesco.com all pretty darn big database users. MS-SQL Powers all three, and many more too. MS do make good software products and a lot of them too. Their business practices may not be what they should, but the fact is - they make quality software. -
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