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Originally Posted by taustin
While that is entirely true, it's hard to ignore the largest quarterly drop in PC sales in the history of the industry. Microsoft is in trouble, and it's more trouble than they were in when Vista bombed.
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Microsoft can afford an occasional OS roll-out flop, especially now.
Its stock remains ~$30 a share and its dividend continues to rise.
All this "Win8 will destroy the PC industry" is total nonsense. That there is
from time to time a slow down in PC purchasing by the large players, is not
at all uncommon. This is only logical when a new OS is announced, which
might have a large impact on the business world. If you are buying one or
two it's no big thing, but if you buy them by the thousands you might want
to see how things work out (in house) before you make your next major
acquisition. A lot of companies doing that at the same time can have an
effect on quarterly figures.
Luck;
Ken