apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 10/27/2008
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Here’s a chart that should keep Steve Ballmer up at night.
It compares Microsoft’s ( MSFT ) market share, revenue, net profit and growth rate to Apple’s ( AAPL ), using the numbers from each company’s most recent quarterly report.
Although Apple has a bit more cash ...
updates.zdnet.com - 10/21/2008
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updates.zdnet.com —
ZDNet Resources Macs that can run 64-bit Vista
Which Macs can run 64-bit Vista? It depends whether
you insist on an all-Apple solution or will run a more-flexible approach using third-party virtualization technology. by David Morgenstern Tags : Apple ...
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updates.zdnet.com - 10/20/2008
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ZDNet Resources Microsoft's Fiscal 2009 Q1: The good,
bad and (not so) ugly There are a lot
of write-ups around the Web aboutMicrosoft's first quarter earnings for fiscal 2009, which the company announced on October 24, so I won't waste a lot of time ...
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operational accounting Resources
appleinsider.com - 10/26/2008
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appleinsider.com —
While Microsoft executives like to talk about Apple
as an insignificant company with less than 5% of
the worldwide market share of all PCs and servers sold, the Mac maker now has more cash than Microsoft and earns more than half of its profits and ...
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Apple earnings, profits, and cash embarrass Microsoft
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Apple is gaining rapidly on Microsoft; 75% vs. 9% YOY revenue growth
MacDailyNews —
... most of its iPhone revenue behind subscription-based accounting," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "If you use the non-GAAP deferred revenue numbers that Apple released last week (and are shown in this chart), the company now earns more than half of Microsoft’s profits on more than three fourths of its revenue," Elmer-DeWitt reports. "Steve Jobs’ company is also growing much more quickly than Ballmer’s. Microsoft’s revenue grew 9% year over year last quarter. Apple’s grew 75%." Full article here . Prince McLean's reports for APpleInsider precipitated Elmer-Dewit's chart. McLean ...
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