$630,000 a year

9 thoughts on $630,000 a year

1. I’d honestly be more interested in what the annual profit is. Revenue looks like a lot for big companies, but it in itself says nothing about the health of a company.

2. Hmm… that net income is fluctuating strongly.
   Any idea why?

3. Depends. Revenue doesn’t matter, net does.

   Here’s a few other factoids:
   – Microsoft’s Operating Income per Division
   – Microsoft’s glut of middle managers
   – Wolfram|Alpha: AAPL vs. MSFT — 1.143 million per employee for AAPL, by the way.

   Using that last source, net per MSFT-ie is 174k. (AAPL, depsite the big gap in earnings per employee, “only” nets 203k per employee.)

4. I wonder what the heck you tried to express with this post. For once, the “linux and google fanboys” sounds rather agressive with those of us that disagree with a vast range of MS policies.

   Also is a bit awkward. Money is very raraley a point when discussing Microsoft’s behaviours.

5. All I’m pointing out is that anyone who claims (as some linux extremists do) that microsofts days are numbered are wrong.
   Not everyone who uses linux or dislikes microsoft is a fanboy, and there are fanboys everywhere, including microsoft ones.
   I am certainly not a big Microsoft fan for many things, but I accept the fact that they are here to stay.

6. Ah, got it. And yes, I agree with you.

   Even if they got the same disaster as with Vista, five times in a row, they would still be alive and well, due to their enormous money flow, and the many directions and products from where they get that money.

   In political terms, though, I would tend to agree that if MS doesnt reinvent itself in a much faster way than has been doing, they are going to be *much* less relevant to the world of software than in the past 20 years.

7. Vista was a disaster? =/

8. Hmn, my last comment seems to have gotten dustbinned because of the links I put in it to back up my arguments.

   1) If you think that Microsoft’s profitability vs. Employee is good, look at apple. There’s an easy way to do this — go to Wolfram Alpha and put in AAPL vs MSFT.
   2) There’s a huge difference between Revenue/Employee and Net Income/Employee. MSFT makes about 200k per employee.
   3) There’s a great graph floating around based on the numbers in Cliff’s link. It shows that sales during the Vista era slumped, and MS’s recent return to profitability is solely based on Windows 7 sales this quarter and last.

9. Heh, anyone that passed unnoticed of the Vista debacle was living isolated in the north pole man, is not even worth of a paragraph, just google it.

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