Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company (khaleejtimes.com) 54
Microsoft briefly overtook Apple as the world's most valuable listed company, fulfilling what it almost did eight years ago and adding a feather on the cap on CEO Satya Nadella. From a report: Redmond, Washington-headquartered Microsoft had a market cap of $753.34 billion, beating out the iPhone maker's $746.82 billion in intra-day trade on Friday at the Nasdaq in New York. Apple, however, regained control at the close. According to the Nasdaq website, Apple's market cap rose back up to $817.58 billion. Right behind it is Microsoft, which also increased to $791.19 billion. Tech companies have undergone some rough times recently. In particular, the so-called FAANG group -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (Alphabet) -- had, as at November 20, combined market cap losses of over $1.02 trillion from their recent highs.
Gosh, I must have blinked (Score:2)
Not a surprise, really (Score:5, Interesting)
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For Microsoft also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_jar_accounting [wikipedia.org]
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I think a strong case could be made that the massive rise in personal computing and the Internet came about precisely because of Windows.
You could, but you couldn't reasonably make the argument that it wouldn't have come about without Windows, either. And since Microsoft arguably set back computing by a decade subsequently, it's a massive net loss.
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Redmond headquartered, as opposed to the other Mic (Score:1)
Why do writers feel the need to vomit the city every company calls home? Readers of this site aren't likely to confuse Microsoft with Apple just because Redmond and Palo Alto aren't mentioned.
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Readers of this site aren't likely to confuse Microsoft with Apple just because Redmond and Palo Alto aren't mentioned.
Apple is in Cupertino, not Palo Alto.
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Apple was in Palo Alto, back in their early days. Check the Apple-1 manual. [computerhistory.org]
A trillion dollars in funbux lost (Score:1)
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See buttcoin isn't the only way to lose money.
A good proctologist [wiktionary.org] can help you find that ...
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oh really, you think that symbolic crap beats reality?
Microsoft is the default and expected end user business software. they own the desktop.
you don't need lines when everyone is ordering your stuff by default
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Not sure what point you're trying to make.
- Windows has 87% of the desktop/laptop market share; .NET are massively used in the enterprise sector.
- while AWS is still massively in the lead in the cloud infrastructure market, it is losing market share to Azure;
- Office 365 overtook Google Apps in the cloud applications market three years ago;
- and C# and ASP
Microsoft is a pretty solid business.
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Times have changed.
Steve Jobs love him or hate made excellent products well ahead of their time. He has been gone for awhile now and there is no reason to pay a premium for his products. Android and Windows have caught up while IOS and MacOSX have regressed in quality and uniqueness.
When MacOSX came out and when the first iPhone came out there was nothing like it! Gorgeous. WindowsXP was kind of close but was butt ugly and behind in terms of unix features and looks with hardware accelerated graphics. Before
No more MS (Score:1, Troll)
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Red Hat disagrees with you [redhat.com].
Depends on how you look at it. Red Hat's subscription is to get support with an SLA, 10-year product lifecycles with assistance for migrations to new versions if needed, checkbox-compliance for industries that have compliance requirements, and explicit hardware testing and certification. Sure, Red Hat does this through paywalling their OS and letting Cent and Fedora handle folks who want to roll the dice, but it's not like Red Hat is only providing the functional equivalent of getting a new version of Windo
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