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Microsoft Reports Record Revenue

Posted by Soulskill on from the reports-of-their-demise-etc. dept.

jones_supa sends this AFP report: "Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong demand for Xbox consoles, Surface tablets and Internet cloud services. The U.S.-based technology titan reported net income of $6.56 billion on revenue that hit a record high of $24.52 billion in the quarter that ended December 31. ... Sales of Surface tablets more than doubled from the previous quarter to hit $893 million, and Microsoft sold 7.4 million Xbox videogame consoles, with 3.9 million of those being new-generation Xbox One. Bing's share of the Internet search market grew to 18.2 percent while its share of the online search ad market grew about a third, according to Microsoft. Meanwhile, money made from selling Windows software to computer makers slid by three percent due to continue soft demand by consumers for personal computers, according to Microsoft."

7 of 289 comments (clear)

  1. Mostly Android revenue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Nuff said.

  2. Price Drop by phmadore · · Score: 3, Funny

    So this means the price of their software is gonna come down... right? :P

  3. Re:Wow. by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 5, Funny

    I assume that the company you run made more than $6.5B last quarter.

  4. Noooo by coolsnowmen · · Score: 3, Funny

    The year of the death of the linux desktop :-(

  5. Re:Wow. by tripleevenfall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Obviously a lot of people want to learn how to breakdance. That's what Surface tablets are for, right? I watch a lot of tv commercials

  6. Re:Rumers..demise..exaggerated. by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you choose Japanese, you need to install SQR Server 2008.

  7. Re:Wow. by dbIII · · Score: 1, Funny

    and how much of your cloud runs on Azure?

    It's not a leap year so it will be fine.