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Comment: Re:It's from SEC filings, (Score 1) 295

by NSIM (#31140436) Attached to: Where Microsoft's Profits Come From
I suspect a lot of what they "loosing" in that section is huge CAPEX spending on their cloud data centers which is an investment in the future. You don't buy build somewhere like their Chicago data center for chump change. MS is one of the few companies with the money to build large scale economic cloud data centers (Google is another, Amazon less so) and I expect MS to be a major provider of cloud computing services at all levels.

Comment: Re:I especially like.. (Score 1) 230

by NSIM (#30462012) Attached to: US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices

The compiler identified the CPU and changed it's behavior to be unoptimized if not the "golden" part. This falsely caused publicly used benchmarks to show competitors parts to be slower.

Why on earth would AMD use Intel's compiler for benchmarks, it just seems like common-sense that they would want to control the compiler to ensure that it's output is properly optimized for their processor.

Data, n.: An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.

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