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MS beats Street, warns of slowing growth

...economic conditions, and we will not see further margin expansion," said Greg Maffei, Microsoft's financial chief, in a statement. In term of desktop operating... Read more

20 July, 1999 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei quits

Maffei is to take the chief executive post at Worldwide Fibre, a Canadian... Read more

23 December, 1999 by ZDNet

Microsoft soars past 1Q estimates, expects strong 2Q

...4.19bn. And the software giant sees more good times ahead. Though Maffei sounded his usual notes of caution, he was upbeat about the second... Read more

20 October, 1999 by Larry Barrett

Has Oracle's acquisition hunger been sated?

...somewhat maybe in the last year? Obviously with the addition of Greg Maffei, things changed a little bit. Zero, I'm doing the same things... Read more

27 July, 2005 by Matt Hines

Old Microsoft execs never die ...

...run something, and I wasn't likely to run Microsoft," said Greg Maffei, who quit as chief financial officer in 1999 and is now chief... Read more

12 February, 2002 by Rachel Konrad

Microsoft may dodge tech-industry bullet

...as chief financial officer in December 1999, after the resignation of George Maffei. Since then, Connors has run a tight financial ship, following the pattern... Read more

19 April, 2001 by Joe Wilcox

The Day Ahead: Corel hopes Jobs' Microsoft play works twice

...he wanted us to become an investor," said Microsoft then-CFO Greg Maffei, referring to Jobs. Corel will also get to ride on Microsoft's... Read more

3 October, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft has new management, same old caution

...Microsoft caution still remains. New CFO John Connors picked up where Greg Maffei left off and gave investors a crafty dose of double-talk -- be... Read more

19 January, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Microsoft tops 2Q estimates, issues usual caution

...consensus earnings target of 39 cents a share, but then-CFO Greg Maffei broke from his typically cautious tone when he suggested that sales would... Read more

19 January, 2000 by Larry Barrett

AOL, Microsoft and IBM earnings ahead

Once traders get back Tuesday they'll be greeted by a slew of technology earnings reports. Read more

17 January, 2000 by Larry Barrett

Why mighty MS missed the boat

...confounding is the fact that its normally conservative chief financial officer, Greg Maffei, went out on a limb, telling analysts that their original second-quarter... Read more

19 November, 1999 by Larry Barrett

A Year Ago: Windows 98 - power software or political soundbite

...going to be a blockbuster, a la Windows 95," Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei said last summer during a characteristically cautious speech at the company's... Read more

25 June, 1999 by ZDNet

Microsoft may buy stake in Cable & Wireless

...Executive Graham Wallace spoke Tuesday with Microsoft's chief financial officer, Greg Maffei, but that the completion of a deal isn't imminent. Microsoft and... Read more

12 May, 1999 by ZDNet

AT&T snubs Sun in digital TV plan

...to test "an enhanced TV experience" -- as Microsoft chief financial officer Greg Maffei put it. At the heart of these services is Microsoft's TVPack... Read more

6 May, 1999 by Chiyo Robertson

Microsoft tops Q3 estimates

...be recognised in coming quarters. On a conference call, Microsoft CFO Greg Maffei said the PC market "remains fundamentally healthy." In the fourth quarter, Maffei... Read more

21 April, 1999 by Larry Barrett

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

5 minutes ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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