Microsoft announced on Wednesday its annual sales and it seems that the company is ahead of a record. The annual amount is 69,94 billion dollars.
The services and the features that got the company this record on the sales department were the video console Xbox 360 and the Office package. The gross profit of the biggest software manufacturer in the world raised in the last year with 23 percent, at 23,15 billion dollars.
Microsoft’s earnings passed the expert’s expectations, according to BBC. In the last trimester, the profits got to 5,87 billion dollars.
Microsoft sales raised with eight percents, at 17,37 billion dollars, because the demand for Office, Xbox and the software technology for cloud computing were very high.
The Business department of Microsoft that is in charge with the Office package (Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel) had the best sales in the last trimester.
The numbers raised with seven percent at 5,8 billion dollars. The online services division, that administrates the searching engine Bing and the internet website MSN, had also a raise of 16,5 percent of the sales at 662 million dollars.
The losses on this segment got though to 728 dollars, as a consequence of the domination from the main rival Google. A weak point for Microsoft was also the Windows operational system, where the sales had a dramatic fallen, because of the tablet PC demand that is improving from one month to another and this way, the computer market has a lot to suffer and the main sign of the tablet’s domination is the falling of the operational systems.
On Wednesday, the microchip manufacturer Intel announced that the PC sales were weaker that the initial expectations.
Microsoft will go through the tablet market next year, when they will launch the new operational system Windows 8, that will be compatible with the low frequency microchips that are usually used in the tablet devices or on Smartphone.
Microsoft is joining this way the group of the companies that had incomes way over the initial expectations in the last period, formed by Google, Apple and IBM. The experts had bad predictions about the Windows decay for some time.
The famous investor Roger McNamee said in an interview for CNBC that Windows is on dying and more, the Microsoft sales on this segment are a dead business. He said all these thinks because in his opinion, Microsoft Windows is in a point in which it can’t grow anymore.
source: newsinbox.net
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