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Microsoft announced its latest set of financial numbers last night, with Windows 8 helping the company’s Windows division to record a 24 per cent increase in profits.
Overall profit was down some 3.7 per cent across all of Microsoft’s hardware and software efforts, mind, although it managed to record its highest ever revenue in the last quarter of 2012, pulling in some £13.5bn thanks to a mixture of W8 upgrades and business sales. So it’s doing OK.
No mention was made of sales of Surface tablets. [Microsoft]
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Profits mainly down due to low xbox sales as end of life approaches and R&D costs from the 5-6 new centers they set up towards end of 2012 i think.
Any mention on the sales of WP7 phones? They’ve been very coy about those.
I haven’t bought MS software in years. There is no point when Linux does everything I need it to do.
“double-digit percentage revenue growth in SQL Server and System Center.”
Now that’s more a like! However, shipping Powerview with Excel and SharePoint(CockPoint!) doesn’t help, they needed that to be embedded along with SSRS and the BIDS package.