2007-05-03

Microsoft Rules - or - 10 Facts about Microsoft

Microsoft announced quarterly revenue of $14.4 billion and net income of $4.93 billion. In other words, Microsoft’s daily net income is about $55 million. That’s $55 million in pure profit every 24 hours. Do some quick math and you’ll learn it takes Microsoft only about…

10 hours or so (yes, hours!) to exceed Red Hat’s quarterly net income of $20.5 million.
four days to exceed Research In Motion’s quarterly net income of $187.9 million.
four days to exceed Starbucks’ quarterly net income of $205 million.
one week to exceed Nike’s quarterly net income of $350.8 million.
two weeks to exceed McDonalds’ quarterly net income of $762 million.
two weeks to exceed Apple’s quarterly net income of $770 million.
18 days to exceed Google’s quarterly net income of $1 billion.
23 days to exceed Coca-Cola’s quarterly net income of $1.26 billion.
five weeks to exceed IBM’s quarterly net income of $1.85 billion.
10 weeks to exceed Wal-Mart’s quarterly net income of $3.9 billion.


Source: TechIQ

2 comments:

  1. those ppl make way too much money

    i dont think its healthy

    ummm ... you know if there giving any of it away :P

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  2. Microsoft are making most income, but their growth acceleration is declining, their new OS is not picking up, and online business is doing miserable. Reason why they put $50 Billion to acquire Yahoo.

    As for Google, their quarter profit is around $2.2 bn. They still exceed it, but just a note to correct.

    eshda3wa: Bill Gates announced he will only be giving $1 million to each of his children, the rest is for charities! His children now probably wish they were only part of the charity :P

    He is one of the most contributing persons to the charities. He has his own organization for charity.

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