Hi Carlo, Ha ha … very good," the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft” … I like it ;-) "The German word Götterdämmerung is a translation of the Old Norse Ragnarök which in Scandinavian mythology refers to the destruction of the gods in a battle with evil, resulting in the end of the world.”
The end of Microsoft ??? ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 24/07/2011, at 5:55 PM, cm wrote: > Hi Ronni, > > The admirable German culture provides a number of intriguing words that are > needed in certain situations and that don't seem to have an equivalent in > English. We may be witnessing the Götterdämmerung of Microsoft. (full > disclosure -- I had to look up the spelling :-) > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 2011-07-24, at 07:12, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Carlo, >> >> The German part of me agrees with your choice of word ;-) >> >> The company's results comes as a stark contrast to Apple's blowout >> performance in the June quarter. The Cupertino, Calif., company posted >> $28.57 billion in revenue and a 125 percent leap in profits to $7.31 >> billion, nearly 25 percent more than its rival's profits. It was just last >> quarterthat Apple beat Microsoft's profits for the first time in decades. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> Sent from Ronni's iPad >> >> On 24/07/2011, at 1:13 AM, cm <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Wamuggers, >>> >>> While Apple continues to grow on almost every financial measure, the >>> Windows division of Microsoft declined by 2% this financial year. It's >>> difficult not to feel just a little schadenfreude. :-) >>> >>> http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/21/microsoft_record_earnings_beat_street_but_windows_revenue_declines_2.html >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
