The quarter was pretty much in line, but despite all the hoopla the Xbox sales turned out to be better than we thought.
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We believe investors will need to hunker down for a potentially long process, possibly leading through appeal into 2001, ... For now, this will be a prominent issue but may become a back-burner issue during lulls in the action.
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The stock may not yet be entirely out of the woods if the December quarter results do not show some further re-acceleration in corporate PC (personal computer) demand, at which point there may be a better basis for revising estimates further,
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We believe that there is a clear platform shift underway from earlier-generation client-server systems to more Internet-enabled client-server systems and the added new dimension of business-to-business commerce. Oracle appears to be out in front of this issue.
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Microsoft's management has not changed its posture on the quarter, but we believe recent data suggests that Street estimates may need to come down,
Rick Sherlund
Most of us thought that earnings per share would be 64 cents, so clearly, much better than expected,
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