It is a fact that Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) has overtaken Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) in quarterly revenue and it seems like a safe forecast to assume that gap is going to widen for quite a few more quarters. With the rise of smartphones, tablets, cloud computing, open source, and a variety of other "Microsoft-killers," a tiny little detail has been lost - Microsoft is still very much a relevant factor in PCs, servers, enterprise software, and many other markets.
A Solid Close to the 2011 Fiscal Year
To be sure, Microsoft is well past the point where it is going to grow like Apple, VMware (NYSE:VMW) or any of the host of up-and-coming software players. But "old" or "mature" are not synonymous with "dead." Microsoft did close the year with growth of over 8% for the quarter and growth that was nearly 6% on a sequential basis.
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Microsoft Anything But Soft (MSFT, AAPL, VMW, IBM, HPQ, RHT, ORCL)
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