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Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us1.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=WnIUNQ;OB7:CNhF]MV;ML<HWonT5<]0T=Q;nb^V>PUf65[gZBW6J?L<b4Xlnec8Yj4nlCPIaXIG3;oRIJ^CKJa^33_;13J7?Z0<B::GSaLS3B7IaaghgoVND3DEORD:GO:o2 X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> Subject: Re: MS is doomed... any year now Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: <v08hn9$1m69n$2@dont-email.me> User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 23 Apr 2024 17:05:00 GMT Lines: 74 Message-ID: <6627ea3c$6$1258332$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1713891900 reader.netnews.com 1258332 127.0.0.1:41431 Bytes: 3243 On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:48:09 -0400, DFS wrote: > MS revenue is up: > > * 115.2x since the release of GuhNoo/Linux in 1991 > > * 6.6x since Torvalds said 21 years ago that Linux would > unintentionally "destroy Microsoft" > > * 3.4x since cola advocate 7 said in 2010 that "Linux is going to kill > Micoshaft Crocporation" > > * 3.0x since cola advocate Roy Spamowitz said in 2011 that "Microsoft > is dying on its own" > > * 2.4x since cola advocate Feeb said in 2017 that "Microshit will go > down in history as an abject failure" > > > The prescience of GuhNoo/Linux idiots is a wonder to behold. > > > ------------------------------- > Revenue Employees > FY $B Chg K Chg ------------------------------- > 1991 1.8 8 1992 2.8 50% 12 40% > 1993 3.8 36% 14 25% > 1994 4.7 24% 15 3% > 1995 5.9 28% 18 17% > 1996 8.7 46% 21 16% > 1997 11.4 31% 22 8% > 1998 14.5 27% 27 22% > 1999 19.8 36% 31 16% > 2000 23.0 16% 39 25% > 2001 25.3 10% 47 22% > 2002 28.4 12% 50 6% > 2003 32.2 13% 55 9% > 2004 36.8 14% 57 4% > 2005 39.8 8% 61 7% > 2006 44.3 11% 71 16% > 2007 51.1 15% 79 11% > 2008 60.4 18% 91 15% > 2009 58.4 -3% 93 2% > 2010 62.5 7% 89 -4% > 2011 69.9 12% 90 1% > 2012 73.7 5% 94 4% > 2013 77.9 6% 99 5% > 2014 86.8 12% 128 29% > 2015 93.6 8% 118 -8% > 2016 85.3 -9% 114 -3% > 2017 90.0 6% 124 9% > 2018 110.4 23% 131 6% > 2019 125.8 14% 144 10% > 2020 143.0 14% 163 13% > 2021 168.1 18% 181 11% > 2022 198.3 18% 221 22% > 2023 211.9 7% 221 0% > ------------------------------- > > > employee counts (rounded by me) > https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/msft/employees/ > > revenue from various sources It's certainly getting bigger, even if its success can't be measured by the traditional, corporate means. Linux doesn't seem to want to take over the desktop anymore because it was taken over just about everything else anyway. -- Andrzej (Andre) Matuch TG: @AndrzejMatuch Christ is King.