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  Microsoft Reports Record Revenue
Time: 20:26 EST/01:26 GMT | News Source: Microsoft Press Release | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner

Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $11.84 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2005, a 9% increase over the same period of the prior year, marking the highest quarterly revenue in the companyfs history. Net income for the quarter was $3.65 billion, which grew 5% from $3.46 billion for the same quarter of the previous year. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $0.34. Net results included $108 million, or $0.01 per share, in tax benefits.

Operating income for the quarter was $4.66 billion, a 2% decline from the same period in the prior year reflecting in part the impact of significant sales, marketing and product development expenses associated with major product launches.

“The growth in our core businesses was healthy during the quarter driven by strength in Server and Tools and the success of our Windows® Client products in a robust PC market,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer of Microsoft. “The quarter also marked the beginning of an important product cycle for Microsoft with the launches of Xbox 360™, SQL Server™ 2005, Visual Studio® 2005 and Microsoft Dynamics™ CRM 3.0, all of which were extremely successful and well received by our customers.”

Server and Tools revenue grew 14% over the prior year on strength across the product line. The growth of SQL Server was robust with over 20% year over year revenue growth.

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#1 By 3653 (68.52.61.116) at 1/27/2006 12:57:39 AM
linus just kicked himself after reading that. damn, he missed out on alot of money.

#2 By 12071 (203.217.48.162) at 1/27/2006 3:25:24 AM
#1 I'm curious what, in the almost 15 years of Linus creating Linux, makes you think he cares about making a lot of money? Even in the early days when he was still living in Finland and other developers were offering to send him money (and beer for that matter) he was telling them not to.

"I've never personally been in the position that I felt I had to program for money - programming may be my job, but long before it was my job it was my pleasure. So the concept of making money or even just fame off software was really fairly secondary to the fact that I wanted to program anyway..." - Linus Torvalds, 1998

My guess is that you don't really understand who Linus is... he's not anti-money or anti-capitalist or anti-American... or you simply don't understand how someone can exist without wanting to make a billion zillion dollars and dominate the world!

This post was edited by chris_kabuki on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 03:26.

#3 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 1/27/2006 11:45:35 AM
"Torvalds' financial situation changed dramatically in 1999. Red Hat and VA Linux (now VA Software), both leading developers of Linux-based software packages for large enterprises, had presented him with stock options in gratitude for his creation. Torvalds suddenly became a millionaire when Red Hat went public, and his net worth temporarily soared to roughly $20 million when VA Linux went public later that year. "

http://www.bellevuelinux.org/linus.html

This post was edited by NotParker on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 11:48.

#4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 1/27/2006 2:07:05 PM
#3: Thus proving he's not an idiot. I don't expect someone to pay me for my hobby, but if you insist, I'll take the money for what I'd do for free.

#5 By 12071 (203.217.48.162) at 1/27/2006 6:06:07 PM
#3 Did you have a point? Or do you just like to make noise? I pointed out that he's not anti-Money, nor it he anti other people making money off Linux. But he didn't create Linux to make money, and he doesn't work on Linux to make more money, as he says himself, it's all secondary to his passion. Neither you nor mooresa seem to understand that - and I'm willing to bet that the rest of the anti-anything-non-Microsoft lack the same understanding.

#6 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at 1/27/2006 6:32:25 PM
If I was worth 20 million, I could tell people I don't care about money either ... and it would be true.

I wouldn't care about money ... any more.

This post was edited by NotParker on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 18:32.

#7 By 12071 (203.217.48.162) at 1/27/2006 11:05:42 PM
#6 You'd have a point if Linus changed his opinion on money since becoming a millionaire - problem is that it didn't. The quote I included in #2 is from 1998 and a quick Google search will find him saying the same thing in 1992 (and probably a lot earlier). He's always done it as it's his passion - something which I mentioned that you have trouble coming to terms with.

#8 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 1/28/2006 8:19:34 PM
How much of the 20 million "he doesn't care about" has he given away to charity?

Compared to say ... Bill Gates.

This post was edited by NotParker on Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 20:19.

#9 By 3653 (68.52.61.116) at 1/29/2006 10:23:57 PM
kabuki and latch, together arguing for linus. PRICELESS. Guys, I didnt say anything against your God. But you cant for one second tell me that he would PREFER #1 below, versus #2 below...

#1 - his current situation ($20M or whatever)
#2 - a few BILLION dollars to keep or give to charity

You guys just take the opposite opinion because you are contrarian by nature. Get over it. Its a CHARACTER flaw that you both share.

#10 By 12071 (203.206.235.237) at 1/30/2006 5:40:43 AM
#8 He gave away the whole operating system... you know, Linux, you may have heard of it, everyone is free to download the full source code for free.

Now as for Bill Gates, there is no denying that he gives a lot to charity when we look at it in percentage terms when compared to the top 50 richest people in the US. However, in my opinion, that has more to do with Melinda than Bill. In any case, it's great that they both give lots to charities!

#9 You are starting to resemble Parkkker more and more every day! You have that same inability to answer a simple question that he does. Just so you're clear on this, Linus is in no way a God and I doubt anyone thinks of him as one. Just because you and Parkkker think of Bill Gates as a God doesn't automatically mean that anyone who likes Apple thinks of Steve as a God and anyone who likes Linux thinks of Linus as a God. We just don't have that same "lips on arse" mentality, sorry!

As for your #1 vs #2 scenario - you'd have to ask him... I'm sure he's more than happy financially but perhaps he'd put the additional money into good use OSS wise. It's hard to tell because he doesn't share the same philosophy that certain other vocal OSS supporters share - he's not against having closed-source software, he's not against DRM, etc. I know that I would pick #2, but I'd give more to my extended family rather than charities, but that's just me.

#11 By 3653 (68.52.61.116) at 1/30/2006 9:11:00 PM
"As for your #1 vs #2 scenario - you'd have to ask him"

why ask linus, when YOU seem to know him so well (reference your i-know-all-but-im-still-a-certified-dumbass) post #2.

More to do with Melinda? Where do you get that? I can just feel your pain in paying Bill an unqualified complement.

now pucker up, adn get your lips back on that penguin.

#12 By 12071 (203.214.147.215) at 1/31/2006 5:10:34 AM
#11 "why ask linus, when YOU seem to know him so well (reference your i-know-all-but-im-still-a-certified-dumbass) post #2. "
It's called having a clue, not being completely ignorant and knowing how to do a search in Google rather than running off at the mouth... dumbass!

"More to do with Melinda? Where do you get that?"
As I said, it's just my opinion, he didn't establish his initial foundation until later the same year that he and Melinda got married (1994). Therefore it is my opinion, based on how many wives are, that Melinda would have been a big part of the reason for setting it up. You can feel free to disagree, in the end, it doesn't really matter, either way it's a great thing that they are both doing as I mentioned earlier.

"now pucker up, adn get your lips back on that penguin."
As I said, but you must have those same reading and comprehension problems that Parkkker has, we just don't have that same "lips on arse" mentality that the only-Microsoft crowd, like yourself, do.

#13 By 3653 (68.52.61.116) at 2/2/2006 7:37:39 PM
feel free to reference the google searches you mentioned in #12. Or just pretend you never read my reply. Your choice.

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