Hi Ronni, The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-)
Cheers, Carlo On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hi Carlo, > > The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) > > The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout > performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted $28.57 > billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 billion, nearly > 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last quarterthat Apple > beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. > > Cheers, > Ronni > Sent from Ronni's iPad > > On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi Wamuggers, >> >> While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the Windows >> division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's difficult not >> to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) >> >> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
