maverick101- that graph is represented as PERCENT OF REVENUE. even if apple was a small sliver at the bottom of that graph it would still indicate microsoft was spending more on advertising due to having lower revenue. but nice try?
"it's about time microsoft started throwing money at the development and not the marketing/"
That's apple marketing talking right there. Maveric already pointed out that MS spends way more then apple on R & D, now let's exam the results of that spending,
Windows vista 01/2007'- Windows 7 10/2009 = Massive improvements OS x 10.5 leopard 10/2007- OS x 10.6 snow leopard= slightly faster but not much different
Apple spent the following amounts on R&D: 1.109 Billion (2009) 782 Million (2008) 712 Million (2007)
Microsoft spent the following amounts on R&D: 9.01 Billion (2009) 8.164 Billion (2008) 7.121 Billion (2007)
Microsoft's R&D budget is 10 TIMES that of Apple's.
This proves that MSFT has made a far greater deal of investments in future projects and technologies than Apple (also corroborated by their short and longterm investments on their balance sheets, which dwarfs Apple's figures)
Apple just rehashes the same bullshit year after year after year with nary a new project or technology
It's the same Mac, iPod, iPhone BS quarter after quarter, year after year.
So, before you iDiots go off spouting nonsensical Apple platitudes, do some *Research* first ... *&* perhaps then you'll experience some inner *Development*.
"Why are ETH Zurich and Microsoft working together on this?
ETH Zurich is a science and technology university with a strong research orientation. MSR encourages open collaboration with academic colleagues. In this case the collaboration arose because members of the Barrelfish team have worked together previously on another, completely different, research operating system at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s. There is no financial arrangement in place for this project, and MSR is not funding the Barrelfish group at ETHZ for any other project either."
It's an academia/industry collaborative project, very much leaning over the academic part, but unlike many such project, it's not funded by the industry.
It seems to me that the collaboration is incidental and Microsoft is just using it as PR.
@ windowsFTW - you're either blind or a total idiot. I didn't say anything about money spent on R&D. I was specifically responding to a comment regarding ADVERTISING DOLLARS SPENT. so please, your red-flag-username aside, at least read the comments before bashing them.
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wow, it's about time microsoft started throwing money at the development and not the marketing. nice fish!
That's what I thought.. so the article is a little inaccurate in saying:
"With current operating systems, as the number of cores increases performance decreases"
That's just not true. More cores = better performance, to a certain point.
why don't you actually educate yourself before you start spouting crap you hear from those shitty "i'm a mac" ads? MS hardly spends any more on advertising than Apple. this is the best chart i could find to show it:
http://assets.bizjournals.com/cms_media/images/aaplmsftaspercrev.jpg?site=techflash.com
also, MS spent $7.5 BILLION on R&D in 2007, while Apple only spent $782 million.
maverick101- that graph is represented as PERCENT OF REVENUE. even if apple was a small sliver at the bottom of that graph it would still indicate microsoft was spending more on advertising due to having lower revenue. but nice try?
"it's about time microsoft started throwing money at the development and not the marketing/"
That's apple marketing talking right there. Maveric already pointed out that MS spends way more then apple on R & D, now let's exam the results of that spending,
Windows vista 01/2007'- Windows 7 10/2009 = Massive improvements
OS x 10.5 leopard 10/2007- OS x 10.6 snow leopard= slightly faster but not much different
Zune 30 11/2006- Zune HD 09/2009 = cased closed.
legs, and devin, i.e. mactards, i.e. iDiots
Would you 2 go crawling back into your iCaves please.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AAPL&annual
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=MSFT&annual
Apple spent the following amounts on R&D:
1.109 Billion (2009) 782 Million (2008) 712 Million (2007)
Microsoft spent the following amounts on R&D:
9.01 Billion (2009) 8.164 Billion (2008) 7.121 Billion (2007)
Microsoft's R&D budget is 10 TIMES that of Apple's.
This proves that MSFT has made a far greater deal of investments in future projects and technologies than Apple (also corroborated by their short and longterm investments on their balance sheets, which dwarfs Apple's figures)
Apple just rehashes the same bullshit year after year after year with nary a new project or technology
It's the same Mac, iPod, iPhone BS quarter after quarter, year after year.
So, before you iDiots go off spouting nonsensical Apple platitudes, do some *Research* first ... *&* perhaps then you'll experience some inner *Development*.
Actually, Microsoft's involvement on this is not financial. From the FAQ of the project
http://www.barrelfish.org/bffaq.html
"Why are ETH Zurich and Microsoft working together on this?
ETH Zurich is a science and technology university with a strong research orientation. MSR encourages open collaboration with academic colleagues. In this case the collaboration arose because members of the Barrelfish team have worked together previously on another, completely different, research operating system at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s. There is no financial arrangement in place for this project, and MSR is not funding the Barrelfish group at ETHZ for any other project either."
It's an academia/industry collaborative project, very much leaning over the academic part, but unlike many such project, it's not funded by the industry.
It seems to me that the collaboration is incidental and Microsoft is just using it as PR.
@ windowsFTW - you're either blind or a total idiot. I didn't say anything about money spent on R&D. I was specifically responding to a comment regarding ADVERTISING DOLLARS SPENT. so please, your red-flag-username aside, at least read the comments before bashing them.