Microsoft trumpets record second quarter results
By Darren Murph 
posted January 24th 2008 8:21PM
posted January 24th 2008 8:21PM
posted January 24th 2008 8:21PM
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If you want serious, hard hitting journalism, is this really the place to find it? 'Cause, again, big internet, lots of sites, try the WSJ or Time or something. Personally, I think the people who run the sight are intitled to their opinion. But that's just my opinion.
"Glad to see you like biased journalism with zero integrity."
erm... it's a blog? You want lack of bias, try CNN. I may not exactly enjoy the Apple slant these guys have, but it IS their site. If they want to lean Jobs's's way, well, that's their deal. Somehow I suspect that if all the stop-worshipping-Apple comments haven't done any good thus far, they're really not ever going to. Do these guys even read the comments?
"You want lack of bias, try CNN."
Eh, that caught me off guard... because it wasn't sarcasm and... you actually believe it?
Watch out! Too many comments and Block & Company will shut down the thread like they did during the Zune review. I don't think they like Microsoft - they certainly don't like readers disagreeing with them.
Its just the press and bloggers making all the fuss (and I think most of the still use vista on their machines), but most of the people who actually USED Vista will like it (or atleast not hate it).
I've been using Vista for more than a year now and its more stable (except IE, damn IE!!) than XP has ever been and easier to use.
Another few hundred million for Bill to use to stop malaria :]
he wouldn't need the millions if he would just use DDT.
Also, historically, I've been pretty vocal about calling engadget out on their bias as tons of other people have too. Oddly enough, I can no longer use my primary email account/user account on engadget. My comments never post and it never comes through my email. I'm now relagated to using a secondary account to post?!? Coincidence?
I have to agree with some of the people above. I mean god what is up with you guys and Microsoft. I stopped going to Gizmodo because of how apple loving they were not to mention the Halo bullshit they pulled. I stuck to Engadget because I thought you guys were fair but lately I don't know. Honestly it is very disappointing and for the record I own a mac and a pc.
Apple's "Amazing" $1.58B doesn't seem so amazing anymore, now does it? Looks like more people are buying Zunes than Apple thinks. And yes, I do know someone who owns a Zune.
MS' fiscal year ends the end of June.
What does this post have to do with the MacBook Air?
HA. But seriously, it looks like Microsoft's pricing gouging model on Vista is actually making them money... That's terrible for consumers, and a BAD reinforcement for Microsoft.
Vista Ultimate is $300+, or "just" ~$170 if you go with the OEM version (which is locked to one motherboard for life). Speaking as a Vista owner, that sucks.
Why does Microsoft have trumpets, and why is it using them as a recording device? Actually, how do you record something with a trumpet???
try reading it as "microsoft boasts record second quarter results", record is used as an adjective not a verb
anyway, to everyone else: im more sick of people posting about being sick of engadget for cheap shots and whatnot. i dont care if their articles sound biased or not. i just enjoy finding out when new stuff is coming out and such, then i pass my own judgment on what i think about that product. instead of complaining, go somewhere else instead of wasting your time complaining about a free service that isnt required to be unbiased, or better yet, start your own so you can be "unbiased"
You are more than likely being sarcastic but just in case... its record, like record breaking, not like recording noise.
My skills at intentionally reading things wrong seem to surpass your joke detection skills :D
shawn, I mean. Evan does better.
The entertainment division posted 542 million dollar profit too!
I never could understand how some people would align their persona with a company or a sports team. It's like some form of mental illness.
I will say this...The I-Tunes user interface stinks. It's the worse I've seen in a long time. It's NOT intuitive . And songs on my Shuffle occasionally skip as if the needle on a record player jumped.
Great comment! Thumbs up ;)
I clicked the wrong button there... that was meant to be under Dragod's comment... sorry.
I would bet my left nut that "mike" is a paid Microsoft shill since he posts MULTIPLE times in any MS or Apple thread spouting mindless fanboyism for MS.
I'd bet that all Engadget's staff are Apple shills because 90% of their posts seem to be pro-Apple (incredibly, even when posting about the Macbook Air) and the remaining 10% seems to include a snide comment bashing Microsoft or one of their products - even when the post isn't about Microsoft or one of their products.
After reading this little dig at Microsoft, I thought to myself: I wonder how long it will take before someone starts bashing Apple. God, and Windows users say Apple users are fanatical. Get a Grip.
By making Vista so awful, and by continuing to support a superior operating system (i.e. XP SP3), Microsoft is all but requiring conscientious consumers and smaller businesses buy a second OS with any new computers they purchase. Much like an airline makes passengers pay extra for sufficient legroom (i.e. United Economy Plus). Genius!
this site is becoming way to microsoft bashing.
Windows vista is not bad at all ok maybe it isnt a huge leap from xp but hey it works.
i agree, and its not like osx leopard was such a great leap either.
To all of those who say "it IS their blog, they ARE entitled to an opinion": of course this is true, but also true is that, as a reader, I am their source of income (you didn't think they were the world's geekiest philanthropists, now did you?).
Seeing they make money out of their visitors, I think it is only fair that they'd listen to us and cut the god damn MS bashing already! Jesus bloody Christ, do you really have to nitpick about Vista every single time?
If any of the editors read these comments, take a look at how many of us you are pissing with this childish, mine-is-better-than-yours attitude. And that just the ones that actually have the time and patience to post a complain.
Isn't there some kind of relationship between AOL and Apple?
As an AOL site, Engadget might be merely driving under this influence.
Many people fail to understand how important this site is to Apple.
Apple is mostly build on hype, they don't really have any real market share in anything except the DAP market, which isn't that big of a business. This site being one of the most popular blogs on the internet and the fact that most of the posts are incredibly pro-Apple, things like these have to be extremely valuable to Apple. There is also a lot strange Goebbels like false information and attacks against other companies that slowly but surely makes people buy products from Apple.
I read and enjoy Engadget but people should remember how manipulative a site like this can be and we are talking about huge amounts of money, not just a fanboy or two.
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if you look at what it says about engadget when your in engadget mobile, it says latest gadget and tech NEWS!!! not blog! I have been put on spam once for talking about the "writers" it's funny even though MBA was crap engadget just couldn't say it, all they say it's not for everyone. yet M$ is the devil! they are a monoploy! wtf is apple then?! you can't run OSX on a dell or gateway, you can only run it on THEIR Hardware which they over price!? WTF!
I have Vista running on 2 computers and haven't had any trouble whatsoever. Before I started using Vista I was worried about driver support and other problems that have been mentioned on Engadget. I haven't run into any driver problems and have only had good experiences with the OS. You guys should really lay off Vista. It is a good operating system that is only getting better.
Of course is a record! You buy a new pc with vista. Then you have to UPGRADE your vista to xp... buying a new license.
@ Engadget: PLEASE stop the MS bashing yes we understand you dont like them or there products fine, but just because you dont like them doesnt mean that others wont. You are getting to the point were there is a good possiblity of having a mass exodus of readers.
about MS, yes their stuff isnt the greatest, yes it has problems, but who's doesn't? at billions of lines of code it is easy to miss an error or not realize a potential problem, but they really do try and make things better. For instance, my father works for a small satellite university, as a network admin, and MS has no problem getting a team of coders working on a solution at 3am. Yes Vista has problems but when I installed it, all but my old audigy ls sound card had drivers that were auto installed, yes some of the drivers were a little old but nothing that would hinder performance. Plus I haven't yet had a BSOD by fault of Vista, one of my HDs ate itself.
Also, since the 360 and zune division was profitable that means that we will get more ZUNES!! wooot!! I love mine it works very well. Not like the shuffle I had, it would turn off if I skipped more then 5 songs in a row with out listening to a whole song. then when I turned it back on it was at the place it had started from when I started skipping songs! How annoying!!
PS does anyone know of any good tech sites that aren't so apple biased?