Microsoft Windows is everywhere, let's face it. It dominates the market place as the Operating System of choice for corporations that use it throughout the workplace, as well as home users that get it pre-installed on their machines - and rightly so. It scales very well from being a non-tech savvy OS to a work machine capable of integrating into corporate networks and running a lot of administrative tools. Oh, and the fact that it has billions of dollars at its back sure helps a whole lot.
Where is this behemoth heading, though?
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 as long as Windows works just fine for most people, I doubt they'll ever feel a need to change.
My main problem with Linux is that I'm pretty sure I won't be able to run Photoshop and some other stuff on it. I could be wrong (please tell me if I am), but that's why I'm staying with Vista for now. Plus, TBH, it came with the PC and it works just fine.
if you have apps that need windows. use windows. but for surfing the internet linux is a must. no viruses, no malware & firefox (with noscript). its the safest surfing ever.
I would love to move to Linux but all new games are never released on Linux. Thats the biggest thing stopping me from moving to Linux.
You can also try to install Open Solaris. That's working fast, robust and looks similar to Ubuntu, because it also uses Gnome or KDE. It's not a Linux clone (basically Linux is a clone of Unix/Solaris). But the hardwaresupport is not as good as Ubuntu. Solaris does not support my soundcard for example, when Ubuntu has no problem at all (strangely enough Fedora had a LOT of problems with my soundcard). But Ubuntu does not support my WiFi-card (Intel IWL3945) enough. Vista has no trouble at all with all my hardware. So when switching, try out Live-CD first to see if everything is supported and also check the hardwarelists.
By the way, I brought Solaris in the discussion because it's a much easier and free install than MacOSX. Maybe the author thought Solaris and Linux are two of a kind (both Unix-versions).