Windows 10: How Does Microsoft Justify Telling Literally a Billion Pople to Throw Their Computers in...

Seriously. It's like if my Ford dealer told me that they aren't going to fix my car anymore after it turns 10 and in fact, NO ONE else can either. Also, those billion people have to come up with - I don't know - five hundred billion dollars buying new computers to facilitate the creation of all of this waste which will also become waste after MS decides to make you throw that computer in the trash in the future. Also, the resources required for manufacturing all of this future trash is appalling. All the money that MS has and they can't just at the very least support security for past build

:)

 

Microsoft Reports $20 Billion in Revenue for Q3 of FY2016

Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2016:

• Revenue was $20.5 billion GAAP, and $22.1 billion non-GAAP
• Operating income was $5.3 billion GAAP, and $6.8 billion non-GAAP
• Net income was $3.8 billion GAAP, and $5.0 billion non-GAAP
• Earnings per share was $0.47 GAAP, and $0.62 non-GAAP

"Organizations using digital technology to transform and drive new growth increasingly choose Microsoft as a partner," said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer at Microsoft. "As these organizations turn to us, we're seeing momentum across Microsoft's cloud services and with Windows 10."







During the quarter, Microsoft returned $6.4 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends.

This quarter's income tax expense included a catch-up adjustment to account for an expected increase in the full year effective tax rate primarily due to the changing mix of revenue across geographies, as well as between cloud services and software licensing. As such, the GAAP and non-GAAP tax rates were 25% and 24%, respectively.

"Our continued operational and financial discipline drove solid results this quarter," said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Microsoft. "We remain focused on investing in our strategic priorities to drive long-term growth."

Revenue in Productivity and Business Processes grew 1% (up 6% in constant currency) to $6.5 billion, with the following business highlights:

• Office commercial products and cloud services revenue grew 7% in constant currency driven by Office 365 revenue growth of 63% in constant currency
• Office consumer products and cloud services revenue grew 6% in constant currency with Office 365 consumer subscribers increasing to 22.2 million
• Dynamics products and cloud services revenue grew 9% in constant currency with Dynamics CRM Online seat adds more than doubling year-over-year

Revenue in Intelligent Cloud grew 3% (up 8% in constant currency) to $6.1 billion, with the following business highlights:

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased 5% in constant currency driven by double-digit annuity revenue growth
• Azure revenue grew 120% in constant currency with usage of Azure compute and Azure SQL database more than doubling year-over-year
• Enterprise Mobility customers more than doubled year-over-year to over 27,000, and the installed base grew nearly 4x year-over-year

Revenue in More Personal Computing grew 1% (up 3% in constant currency) to $9.5 billion, with the following business highlights:

• Windows OEM revenue declined 2% in constant currency, outperforming the PC market, driven by higher consumer premium device mix
• Surface revenue increased 61% in constant currency driven by Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book
• Phone revenue declined 46% in constant currency
• Xbox Live monthly active users grew 26% year-over-year to 46 million
• Search advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs grew 18% in constant currency with continued benefit from Windows 10 usage

"Digital transformation is the number one priority on our customers' agenda. Companies from large established businesses to emerging start-ups are turning to our cloud solutions to help them move faster and generate new revenue," said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft.

 

Processor cooling innovation may eliminate computer fans and save billions

Principal is much like air cooling heatsinks we have now, with a coolant known as "Fluorinert FC-72"

http://www.techrepublic.com/article...ay-eliminate-computer-fans-and-save-billions/

Passive cooling
Another interesting piece of the puzzle is that the entire system is passive -- no electricity is used to cool the processor in the test computer. Passive cooling is possible because of the excellent heat-transfer characteristics of Fluorinert FC-72. The following steps explain how the processor is cooled using FC-72.

• Heat from the computer processor vaporizes the Fluorinert liquid.
• The vapor being lighter moves upward to the heat exchanger.
• The FC-72 transfers its heat load to the exchanger, which in turn transfers the heat to the surrounding air.
• Removing heat causes the FC-72 to condense into a liquid that flows into the holding tank below the heat exchanger.
• From the holding tank, the liquid FC-72 travels to the processor where the cycle is repeated.

The system has successfully cooled Intel Pentium 4 and Core i3 processors.

 

Surface on track to be Microsoft's next billion $ business

Exactly.

It makes me always smile when I see these two threads of ours in New Posts, both updated, nicely together. It tells about how "sure and confirmed" news based on "I heard it from my mate who knows someone who once dated a girl working in an office quite close to Microsoft" are:

• Microsoft Could Kill the Entire Surface Tablet Lineup...
• Microsoft is committed to the Surface lineup.