Goes without saying!

Redmond, Wash. – July 23, 2009 – Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $13.10 billion for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2009, a 17% decline from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $3.99 billion, $3.05 billion and $0.34 per share, which represented declines of 30%, 29% and 26%, respectively, when compared with the prior year period.

“Our business continued to be negatively impacted by weakness in the global PC and server markets,” said Chris Liddell, chief financial officer at Microsoft. “In light of that environment, it was an excellent achievement to deliver over $750 million of operational savings compared to the prior year quarter.”

The financial results for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2009, included the deferral of $276 million of revenue related to the Windows 7 Upgrade Option program that was announced on June 25, 2009. This revenue deferral reduced earnings per share by $0.02.

That's a lot of decline. I guess it is obvious which business model works best!

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

New SMT is for DS!!!

Title: Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey
Platform: Nintendo DS
Release Date: Oct 8 2009 (Japan)

Info:
- Some other dimension has opened up in the South Pole
- The dimensional space is called "Schwarz Birth" or something
- The characters wear some scifi suit called Demonica Suits, and get upgraded applications along the way
- Top screen = first person as in past SMT games
- Botton screen = map + support info
- 300+ demons
- Negotiation systems, fusion, etc, are all in the game

I personally was expecting a PS3 and/or X360 title!!

Could this be the long awaited SMT4?
This is an interesting move from Atlus, reminiscent of Dragon Quest going from PS2 to DS.

References:
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey announced for Nintendo DS - Atlus U.S.A. Forums
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey - Atlus Online!
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siliconera Atlus Teaser Site Reveals Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey?


Scans:

Market share? Irrelevant!

Apple posted best non-holiday profits amidst all the global economical doom and gloom, while many reported that its market share dropped!

Proves that all you need to be profitable is outstanding management and outstanding products. Market share is completely irrelevant if you are selling at a loss or very thin margins.

CUPERTINO, California—July 21, 2009—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 third quarter ended June 27, 2009. The Company posted revenue of $8.34 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.23 billion, or $1.35 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $7.46 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.3 percent, up from 34.8 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 44 percent of the quarter’s revenue.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/07/21results.html

Could Media.Vision be prepping for an iPhone JRPG?

I stumbled across this a couple of months ago and forgot about it until now

Media.Vision seems to have interest in iPhone development and posted some job listings

Media.Vision Entertainment

Not sure what this means, hopefully an iPhone game

Media.Vision are the developers behind SCE's Wild ARMs JRPG series.

Can't be anything but SMT4

A new teaser site is up at Atlus

http://new.atlusnet.jp/

The whole theme and feel screams Shin Megami Tensei 4. Please let it be so! It been so long since Nocturne!

Ballmer laughs off Chrome OS just like he laughed off the iPhone!

Too soon Ballmer! too soon!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Microsoft-CEO-laughs-off-rb-3253791500.html?x=0&.v=4

Windows am doomed!

With more people using computers to browse the interwebs, check emails, listen to music, watch the odd movie and play a simplastic game, the need for gigantic OSes is diminishing. People who use gigantic OSes and need them will always exist, but for a lot of people a simple and swift OS that can easily let them connect to the Internet is all they will ever need. Google will provide this, and any necessary services can be streamed via the tubes from Google's servers.

I personally do more of my stuff online, including work, I don't play PC games, and GCC (and maybe some IDE) is about as much as I'll ever need if I wanted to get my hands dirty.
My current desktop is a similar setup. I got Linux+X+GNU+Fluxbox+Chromium and that's all I need.

* I'm not predicting the demise of Windows. I just wanted a dramatic title. That is all!