He's got a point though...but its up to the big dogs and all their decisions.

haha, I use to have a Teddy Ruxpin. Someone gave it to me as a gift, of course. ;)

Their party isn't over yet though. As long as they have windows there will always be another party.

Is it me or is there an overabundance of Microsoft news today????

M$ got a bad fourtune in its coockie didnt it

I just wish there was a doom of 'doomed' articles if that makes any sense

heck no, after party!

just another venture that isnt proving to be profitable either

This is the first MS doom article i have seen. Interesting read. I didn't know MS tried this much to dominate other bussiness without much success.

I think the problem is MS is mostly a software based company. They should stick mostly to stoftware based business.

Meh meh and meh

Seen Windows 7 will be bought massive again after no one wanted Vista really, MS has its cash cow ready already again.

In other markets upcoming, they beat Sony in the real console race and outselling them. Making money on XBOX, while Sony only taking losses. So?

EDIT

@ the guy below, could you give the links to those salesnumbers you're spitting out there? The PS3 gets outsold by the 360 since around Fall 2008 and you're making up some numbers there dude....

As long as MS doesnt charge for service packs, they cant be as bad as for example, apple......

Why does everybody love apple anyway, they overcharge their products, and they ask money for service packs....
Only apple product i own is an iphone, and i intend to keep it that way.

Cant wait for Zune hd .

Emergence day .....

Party over for MS?

....LMAO....

The U.S. is in a recession and a lot of major company's are hurting. But I bet as soon as Windows7 comes out MS will be right back on top. Also let not forget Bing is actually getting a lot of traffic these days.

All in all I would say the party is far from over for MS.

I can't even think of which company would be the first to go down(gaming division). Sony is such a big company and they have seen that they can dominate just as well or better than Nintendo. MS is starting to rise to the top, and Nintendo basically has a money machine on its hands with the Wii.

To have successes you must understand the fact that there will be as many, if not more, failures. If the successes outweigh the failures, the company profits. If the company fails to make risks and stays in its comfort zone it never grows.

Microsoft posted a smaller PROFIT, not even a loss, and somehow it's dying? So what, it's having a bit of a dry streak in a global recession, plenty of companies are having trouble. Get over it.

I love how the article ignores the game division at MS.

I'm glad I have a science degree. Seriously. Not one of these "experts" knew it was coming or what to do about it. Microsoft may be in trouble, it may not be but I can't believe "the party is over". Let's face it. When all things are considered this article is just more speculation.

This is what Sony fanboys need to hear, dont worry it will come true! Soon Microsoft will be finish and there will only be Playstation again!!! Just wait it ouy guys! Only a matter of time!

No more PS3rd place soon, just pray real long and hard! ;)

I love MS's OS. I hate the XBOX. AS a company as a whole I like them and hope they never go under ever.

No, it has just begun.

The author is just saying that its time for MS to stop messing around and try to refocus their bussiness on what they are good at. Software.

They netted $14 billion last fiscal year and they have $30+ billion in cash.

at least I can say Micro$oft RRODed :P

gaming journalism is the only thing that's doomed this generation...

In my experience "riding high in april,shot down in may" holds true.
"The sun still sets upon grey horizons".
Indicative of our times,no one escapes the madhouse unchanged.
Rise only to fall and then rise again to learn why we fell.Micro will be fine,they lost their feathers not their wings.I am not a Micro supporter per se but competition breeds innovation,and without it we are,all of us done.

How the second a company in the current "console war" does something wrong/makes a loss the whole internet starts preaching about how it's the end of there own little world.

I don't think most are aware on how embedded MS software is around the world.

you don't have to tell me twice, if MS is in trouble or was to ever FAIL, your jobs would be as well and so many other entities with ties to just windows.

Most of this stuff is ignorant trash and really tied to the fact plenty on here, hate MS and the 360 in the industry.

first it was nintendo going the way of sega before wii launched.

then it was sony is doomed with the $600 ps3.

now ms is doomed.

i see a pattern here.

With Sony and Microsoft doomed looks like the Wii will be our new leader,bow to nintendo.

Nice Try. Microsoft beat analyst expectations (this one included) this quarter. They only had a 5% decline in profits, in the worst recession since 1929! Hello, if this is a decline I'd love to see the rebound they are expecting. Don't go out, and sale your stock in Microsoft if you have not already, it is too late, the stock has already declined on the rumor they where in talks with Yahoo. The translation here is this, this analyst has to help fill orders with fools that sale when it is already to late. The reason the stock dropped is obvious! It always drops when a company is in talks to make a large acquisition. And they are in talks to buy Yahoo, again. Every time they have went into talks with yahoo the last two years Microsofts stock dropped instantly, and yahoo's stock rose. With all companies it always happens (unless they are buying a small company). Yahoo is Hugh, even for Microsoft. Don't trust this analyst, he is two days late, and a few stocks short (which he plans to get from you cheaply). Microsoft also predicted that the internet would be way bigger than the operating system business, and office. I think they where right! They also predicted that online gaming was the future when Sony said it was not during last generation (Microsoft was right again). They also said a lot of things that where correct that other people LAUGHED AT! Including this analyst. Everyone was wrong, and the more your into the more you are going to be wrong. Look at GE, this kind of stupid comment was also made about them. Now GE is in EVERYTHING, and is one of the biggest companies on the earth, news, air planes, small kitchen appliances, TV's, radios, wiring, plumbing, paints, all kinds of electrical supplies, car equipment, commodities, obviously still light bulbs, large appliances, music equipment, utility equipment, let just say it didn't hurt them. And Microsoft is in many things also. Software, hardware, advertisement (yes they have been in it for awhile), games, services. This is why they have hundreds of executives so that they can each concentrate on the lines of business that they are assigned. It would be like saying Sony needs to concentrate on audio headphones instead of launching a PS1, and thinking it will one day be the biggest profit maker of the company. Hmmmmmm how did that turn out? Oh wait it IS the largest profit of the company for the last two generations before this one, and still may end up being big this generation? See how that worked! People where laughing at them too saying how can games pass TV's?

Nothing in the article is new. When you're as big as MS, there's nothing wrong with branching out and trying new things.

It's not like they forgot they make software, too.

nobody here can claim xbox to be a success for microsoft at all... microsoft has only lost money with xbox... 7 billion dollars to be exact. the xbox 360 has paid back the money it cost the company already, which is good, but it did nothing to the 6.8 billion the company lost on the first xbox.

you have to become a hater to know the truth about microsoft or sony??
if someone comment something you dont like you become banned on here.
or if it sound stupid your bashed or called a tool or turd and still lose your bubbles becuz your not in the click of things. so childish
I tell you the truth, this one sided world full of sad lame a$$ people.
if you guys going to take my bubbles and banned me mise well tell the truth in the process. I seriously can't believe you guys come here day after fu'king day whining and bit'h about bull sh't... here is the deal sony will lower ps3 when its ready,in the mean time until market share (trade of economy price range)for investors to be reasonable for lost of (INCOME) THEN sony will lower the price until then MS is waiting on sony to lower its price, so they can capitalize on it. (nothing new on that)wii is a big seller becuz most people dont like lame hard core games. most people would perfer simple easy going games. its not becuz someone grand mother or father want these games but becuz its simple to use games.....if I get banned for telling the truth hell with this site.

so let me get this straight
you have to become a hater to know the truth about microsoft or sony??
if someone comment something you dont like you become banned on here.
or if it sound stupid your bashed or called a tool or turd and still lose your bubbles becuz your not in the click of things. so childish
I tell you the truth, this one sided world full of sad lame a$$ people.
if you guys going to take my bubbles and banned me mise well tell the truth in the process. I seriously can't believe you guys come here day after fu'king day whining and bit'h about bull sh't... here is the deal sony will lower ps3 when its ready,in the mean time until market share (trade of economy price range)for investors to be reasonable for lose of (INCOME) THEN sony will lower the price until then MS is waiting on sony to lower its price, so they can capitalize on it. (nothing new on that)wii is a big seller becuz most people dont like lame hard core games. most people would perfer simple easy going games. its not becuz someone grand mother or father want these games but becuz its simple to use games.....if I get banned for telling the truth hell with this site.

Well then since MS posted a loss I guess, Ford, Toyota Chevy, Toshiba, Sony, Magnavox, LogTech, Walmart, Disney, are all doomed, Stop this BS now you pahtetic fanboy trash, and try writing something worth reading.

when an article comes on saying "Sony is doomed" all the droids come along saying that any article like that should be banned. Now its ok to put them on because its microsoft!

Finally a Microsoft is doomed article about time... but no they are not Microsoft will survive I'm currently typing this in I.E and I'm using Vista I'm pretty sure Microsoft will be around for a while, same goes to Sony, Nintendo and a few people if you've survivied the worst of the depression I'm pretty sure you'll survive the rest.

roll on google OS, its funny to see mindless console fanboys but to actually be a microsoft fanboy thats scary you guys pay full price for office and windows on every system you own lol.

The place that I worked at would have posted billions in profit last quarter like M$. Yes that is the kind of doomed I would like. Maybe we would not have had layoffs. Last I checked profits are a good thing right?

There are many morons that would wish Microsoft to go out of business. And to the person who compared a bankrupt GM to MS who is still making million in profits, you sir are an idiot.

Good day

Xbox Live has a yearly revenue of around a billion dollars, half of that I'm sure is profit...

is now about fanboys fighting all the time!!....

Thing is though, the only two things MS have done that I am genuinely impressed with throughout Microsoft's existence, is MS Office. The suite of software including Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint. These apps are awesome and no one can deny that they have revolutionized the work place. Also Xbox Live - they are definitely pioneers in online gaming. I know this is a different MS division though.

But MS do freakin annoy me as virtually everything else they have produced has been copied from somewhere else, then reproduced in a substandard way.

I could go on b1tching about Windows, Windows Mobile, Windows Vista, Internet Explorer, the number of faulty XBOX360's my friends have been through and so on.

Having said this though, I don't want MS to go anywhere - but do they really deserve the success they have had, considering most of their products are inferior, regurgitated ideas that other companies have done a much better job of producing. Maybe in another 25 - 30 years they might be able to introduce a decent browser!

Seems like this is Pirates of Silicon Valley all over again. :P

For those who don't know what Pirates of Silicon Valley is about, it's about what Microsoft did to Apple (basically copy stuff from Apple or "took them") thus causing the downfall of Apple.

Good thing to see that Apple rose again since the start of the iMac and iPod though.

http://n4g.com/NewsCom-3627...

It's the stock market scam at work. Microsoft is doing well. Like indysurfn said, they beat expectations. Doesn't anyone find it odd that when Surface didn't seem like a potential money makers, Zune was failing, Xbox was losing money and Vista was broken. No one said Microsoft was in trouble.

Now Surface is being used and is being readied for the home market. Zune HD looks like it will gain a nice piece of the market. Xbox is making money. And individuals and corporations are looking forward to Windows 7, MS is in trouble. And let's not forget the excitement over Natal. Watch for more doom articles(from only the most reputable sources, of course) and a lower stock price and just around the middle of September, before Windows 7 hits, all of the insider market players buy Microsoft and the stock price jumps making them millions.

Stay out of the market(stocks,401ks) people, it's one of the biggest scams perpetrated on the average worker.

@fr0sty

Yes Microsoft has lost somewhere around 6-7 billion on Xbox, but Sony has lost over 5 billion on the PS3 and counting. Xbox has been profitable over the last year, PS3 still isn't. I'd rather finish strong then to lose it at the end. And without a price cut, where is Sony's light at the end of the tunnel. Even with revenue down for MS they made a profit of over 3 billion for just the quarter, Sony lost over a billion for the entire year.

MS isn't really M$ any more. Three years ago, they had over 50 billion in cash. That is down to 25 billion now. They spent 25 billion buying back stock since the stock has been underperforming for several years.

When they bought it back, it was $30 per share. It went down to $17 last year and is now back to about $23. Just do the arithmetic and they lost a lot of money on the buyback.

They have also now borrowed, for the first time in their history, over $6 billion to buy back more shares. They are buying back shares because that is the only way they can try to raise their stock value, they don't have anything that is really increasing their value.

They are in the fight of their lives against Google. The really big problem of Microsoft is almost their entire valuation is in the stocks they have issued, not some intrinsic value of their products. Their biggest products are the operating system and the document applications. Alternatives to those are starting to emerge and they don't have anything revolutionary to raise them above the competition. Their biggest problem is they are not innovators, they are copiers and they have spent too much time and effort in copying and stealing other companies ideas and innovations.

Once their stock starts to weaken, it could prove to be a house of cards -- a big house of cards-- but a house of cards, nonetheless. If the larger investment firms start unloading MSFT, they could become ms very quickly, not MS or even M$ anymore.

meh. *Goes back to playing Shatter*

Why? They did it in on the portable music....ie IPOD
They did it in the mobile phone...ie Iphone
They are doing it in mobile gamming....ie iphone
They will make a game console.....soon

And they will make a multitouch pad with a 10 inch screen and sell it for less than $600....and destroy all the netbooks...

Apple is the one to watch....Sony better get in bed with Apple.

Microsoft better embrace bluray...because bluray is about to explode! Apple knows this and they are about to jump in too...

As a computer professional and reader of PC Magazine until they went digital only, I've always hated John C. Dvorak. He is a moron. Not because of this article specifically at all, but he is just an idiot. All of my peers over the years thought he was a douche too. I've never met anyone that said they like his ramblings. Nobody does.

"Like indysurfn said, they beat expectations."

As pointed out above, and by news headlines, that statement is just flat out wrong. Not only did MS *FAIL* to beat expectations, they failed to *MEET* expectations.

"Yes Microsoft has lost somewhere around 6-7 billion on Xbox, but Sony has lost over 5 billion on the PS3 and counting."

This is either delusional or just web ignorance. Microsoft has lost almost *9 BILLION* on the Xbox. Sony is about *3 BILLION* in the hole on the PS3 but they are still positive for the Playstation brand by almost *2 BILLION*. The attached table image below shows console profit/loss for Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft. This table is compiled from each companies financial statements which they have to file as publically traded stocks.

espically considering the fact the company and bill gates is still the 3rd richest in the US and there still makeing tons of profit off windows XP and vista and the soon to be announced windows 7 not to mention Office and visual basic I know this isn't game related but if anything sony would defintly go bankrupt why before MS only a twit would takes this clowns prediction seriously if they thin

beside the Playstation brand in general seriously over the last few years even during the bad economy I've heard of MS makeing profit off os windows,office and visual basic I've heard apple makeing profits off Iphone and the Ipod I have yet to see sony announce any profit comeing in from any of there manfuctured T.V's and other electric applinces accept for maybe bluray

There is just no middle ground on these type of articles:

Article on Microsoft losing sales, share, money, etc.:

-Microsoft fans disagrees and think its BS

-Everyone else agrees

Article on Sony losing money, profit, shares, etc.:

Sony fans think its BS

-Everyone else agrees

*sigh*