Hi everybody
Jack(LNERlover5), in regard to your posting at #18 of this thread on the possibility of the Microsoft Corporation being broken up and sold off, well as I stated in my posting at #16 Microsoft have not made a profit on their total operation for the last three years. Commercial organisations no matter how big they are cannot go on making losses indefinitely and sooner or later the “crunch has to come”.
In the above, many market analysts believe that when Microsoft announce their trading results for the financial year 2015-2016 they will have to show that they have made a profit for the year, or at least be a long way down the road towards making one. If the foregoing is not achieved then creditors and investors have to be repaid and reassured. The breakup and drastic sell-off of parts of the company may then be the only way to go, for where else would there be.
However, investors seem to think that Microsoft are now heading in the right direction. Their stock market price has in recent weeks remained around $50 per share despite the fact that world markets have generally declined. Therefore there are plenty of reasons to be confident in regard to the overall future of Microsoft, but the mobile market is most definitely where their full attention will have to be.
Malc,(clam1952), the mobile market is not all small screens these days. Several android laptops are due on the market in the next few months with the 11 to 13 inch screens and there are even plans for a 21 inch desktop model, though how anyone can describe that as a mobile device is beyond me (LOL).
The problem for the desktop PC would be there is less and less need for it even in its traditional office environment. By example, most people use their smart phones to verbally dictate emails and texts these days even when a PC may be right in front of them. Documents can be created, edited and distributed through Google drive using android or Google OS, so no need for a Windows PC.
The world turns and everything moves on, with Microsoft having an awful lot of catching up to do.
Bill
Jack(LNERlover5), in regard to your posting at #18 of this thread on the possibility of the Microsoft Corporation being broken up and sold off, well as I stated in my posting at #16 Microsoft have not made a profit on their total operation for the last three years. Commercial organisations no matter how big they are cannot go on making losses indefinitely and sooner or later the “crunch has to come”.
In the above, many market analysts believe that when Microsoft announce their trading results for the financial year 2015-2016 they will have to show that they have made a profit for the year, or at least be a long way down the road towards making one. If the foregoing is not achieved then creditors and investors have to be repaid and reassured. The breakup and drastic sell-off of parts of the company may then be the only way to go, for where else would there be.
However, investors seem to think that Microsoft are now heading in the right direction. Their stock market price has in recent weeks remained around $50 per share despite the fact that world markets have generally declined. Therefore there are plenty of reasons to be confident in regard to the overall future of Microsoft, but the mobile market is most definitely where their full attention will have to be.
I wouldn't trust anything a monopoly like Microsoft claims or predicts, all they are doing is trying to brainwash people.
I wonder what the current generation of Gadget users are going to do when their eyesight starts failing, they get arthritis or RSI from waving their fingers over screens 24/7.
Malc,(clam1952), the mobile market is not all small screens these days. Several android laptops are due on the market in the next few months with the 11 to 13 inch screens and there are even plans for a 21 inch desktop model, though how anyone can describe that as a mobile device is beyond me (LOL).
The problem for the desktop PC would be there is less and less need for it even in its traditional office environment. By example, most people use their smart phones to verbally dictate emails and texts these days even when a PC may be right in front of them. Documents can be created, edited and distributed through Google drive using android or Google OS, so no need for a Windows PC.
The world turns and everything moves on, with Microsoft having an awful lot of catching up to do.
Bill
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