Technical Tidbits™

I am doing the happy dance of joy today!

Although the article – a financial one – states:

Microsoft needs to revive these franchises with Windows 7 at a time when it is increasingly under attack by cloud-based productivity apps from Google and others. But Windows 7 should give Microsoft some cover as corporations go through their robotic upgrade exercises. The company recorded $1.5 billion in deferral revenue associated with Windows 7, which pretty much covers the gap from last year.

First, this article is making the assumption that corporations will go through their robotic upgrade exercise. There’s no guarantee that businesses who have been hit by the recession anyway, and resisted Vista upgrades are going to jump on the Windows 7 bandwagon any time soon!

Secondly, it states that the deferral revenue associated with Windows 7 covers the gap from last year. If Windows 7 doesn’t catch on – as it’s appearing is the case – then what about the losses this year?

The next section in this article discusses the online revenue and losses. Another good sign that people are fed up with Microsoft’s hype, false advertising, and poorly made products.

Looking at Microsoft’s online business, once again the loss in that business ($480 million) almost matched its revenues ($490 million). We saw the same trend last quarter, as Microsoft continues to invest heavily in this business via Bing and other products. Online advertising revenues were down 3 percent (at least that was better than Yahoo’s 12 percent decline), and search ads from Bing saw a “mid single digit” increase.

So, not only are users not buying into the whole “Bing is better” hype, it seems like those of us who used to trust Yahoo are abandoning it by the dozens!

I applaud all the end-users out there who have helped to make this happy news! You have restored my faith in you! You are a very wise group of people!

And know that you made my day a BEAUTIFUL one! And thanks to TechCrunch for publishing the article!

To view the full TechCrunch article: Microsoft Reports Pre-Windows 7 Declines For Revenues And Profits. No More Excuses..