Microsoft and Web Revenue
October 24, 2009
Mashable, a Web publication tracking new technology, ran an interesting business feature on October 23, 2009. The story was “Microsoft Still Isn’t Making Money on the Web”.
First, I thought the write up was substantive, certainly as good as much of the business writing found on Web sites that know less about technology than the exciting realms of the MBA fun house. For example, I liked this paragraph:
Specifically, the company’s online division reported a loss of $480 million in the quarter on revenue of $490 million. That’s less revenue than last year, when it pulled in $520 million, and a bigger loss as well versus the $321 shortfall in the first quarter of 2008.
Pretty clear.
Second, if Mashable continues to run business articles, I think the idea of charging for similar information will be less interesting to a certain segment of the online market. I for one am losing my enthusiasm for paying for content that I can find using a bit of ingenuity and new services such as real time search systems like Collecta and Topsy.
Stephen Arnold, October 24, 2009
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