Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Oct 2007 15:31 UTC
Strong sales of new and old products alike led Microsoft to its fastest first-quarter growth in eight years, with the company reporting growth in all five business segments and both revenue and earnings per share that beat analyst expectations. Revenue for the fiscal quarter ended Sept. 30 was up 27 percent at USD 13.76 billion compared to USD 10.81 billion a year ago, Microsoft said Thursday. Consensus estimates from Thomson First Call analysts were for the company to generate revenue of USD 12.57 billion. Microsoft's EPS for the quarter was USD 0.45, which also soundly beat Thomson First Call consensus estimate of USD 0.39. Net income for the quarter was USD 4.29 billion, a 23 percent increase over the USD 3.48 billion reported a year ago. At USD 5.92 billion, operating income for the quarter also had double-digit percentage growth: an increase of more than 25 percent over operating income reported for the same period last year of USD 4.47 billion.
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Member since:2006-03-12
"When you're at 90+ percent market share...there are 2 ways to go, steady or down."
Or you make revenue by different markets, like they are trying with zune, and xbox, for content creation. This is ignoring all the sidelines of little things like condecs for HD.
Or the move from piracy to ligitermate copies of their OS.
Or the fact that the computing market is still expanding.
etc etc.
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2006-03-12
"The #'s posted by MS in this latest quarter refute most the 'noise' posted on the linux-losing-market-to-windows' thread that made that thread so unreadable."
On the Desktop Microsoft is losing Market share to *everyone* unfortunately in figures that make little difference to Revenue.