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7/31/2005
  The Decline of the MSFT Empire

Microsoft is irrelevant these days. David Bau reveals the cascade of logic:

Don't believe it? Read these two blog posts and look at this chart:

Microsoft in 2004 (year ended June 30)
                                   Revenue (money in)  Profit (money made)
Client (Windows XP)                      11.2b              9.0b
Server and Tools (Server+SQL)             7.9b              2.2b
Information Worker (Office)              10.9b              8.1b
Microsoft Business Solution               0.7b             (0.2b)
MSN (homepage, Hotmail, search)           2.4b              0.3b
Mobile and Embedded Devices               0.2b             (0.1b)
Home and Entertainment (Xbox)             2.9b             (0.8b)
Reconciling amounts                       0.6b             (9.4b)
Totals                                   36.8b              9.0b

Without even talking about Google, David Bau supplies quite enough damning evidence.

 




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