“Tech writer MG Siegler just noted a remarkable fact: Apple’s iPhone business alone is now bigger than Microsoft,” Henry Blodget reports for The Business Insider.

“Not Windows. Not Office. Microsoft,” Blodget reports. “Think about that.”

“The iPhone also appears to be considerably more profitable than Microsoft,” Blodget reports. “In the December quarter, Apple’s iPhone business generated $24.4 billion of revenue. Microsoft’s whole company, meanwhile, from Windows to Office to servers to XBox, generated $20.9 billion.”

“The iPhone business generated about $9.3 billion of profit in the December quarter,” Blodget reports. “All of Microsoft, meanwhile, generated only $8.2 billion.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: We’re not sure why this story is making a comeback. It’s a Web Echo. (See: Apple’s iPhone business alone generates more revenue than all Microsoft – January 25, 2012.) Perhaps it’s simply too good to savor just once.

No matter, we’re always up for rereleases as good as this!

Over seven years ago, when we wrote the following, a lot of people laughed: As we have always said, even as many short-sightedly waved (and continue to wave) the white flag, the war is not over. And, yes, we shall prevail… No company is invincible. Not even Microsoft. – MacDailyNews Take, January 10, 2005

Who’s laughing now?