Microsoft Profit up, but Vista sales declining?

Interesting snipet from Slashdot (home of the Mcrosoft vs Apple vs *nix wars)

Microsoft is not directly mentioning Vista demand while they brag about how much money they made last quarter, because sales fell. “[Microsoft] shipped approximately 28 million copies of Vista in the latest quarter ended September, or 9.3 million copies per month.

I hope the market reads this, or a version of it, as I doubled and redoubled up on my short position on Microsoft when it rose from $30ish to $35ish the other day.

Meanwhile Slashdot also passes on that Apple makes over $800 per iPhone – someone reverse engineered the value from the future income portion of Apple’s last disclosure. See – that’s what proper financial disclosure gets you.