"Microsoft will argue to the death that Windows Vista is not the flop that many analysts claim it to be. They maintain that Vista's current sales are far stronger than that of XPs when it was the same age. Never mind the fact that the amount of PCs worldwide has grown exponentially since then..."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
... but for anyone that has a pretty new, up-to-date PC, it works pretty damn good. I thought XP was excellent when I used it for many years (cant remember it crashing EVER), and Vista (although it has it's annoyances) is even better.
Ofcourse it's overpriced, and I would prefer a free opensource OS that will run all my programs and hardware without problems, but until that day comes, I'll stick with Vista for the time being.
If Mac laptops weren't so damn expensive I'd be saying screw Vista right about now.
Anyone surprised?
Same thing as Office. It is competing with the very succesful predecesor - without much reason to upgrade. Not much exclusive software for Vista - so why upgrade? No good or bad reasons - just economics. If XP is still good enough - then why would corporates upgrade? Same with Office 2007. If Office 2003 still does all you need - then why shell out for the little benefit?
don't work or aren't compatible with Vista. You have to repurchase all those softwares to run it on Vista. I tried installing one or two XP compatible software on Vista and it BSOD on me.