Tosin eipä tuolla yrityksellä puutetta rahasta ole.
Microsoft earnings shine; Ups fiscal year outlook* Microsoft’s $16 billion in revenue is a company record.
* The company’s client unit–think Vista and XP–had operating income of $3.36 billion on revenue of $4.33 billion. For the same quarter a year ago, Microsoft’s client group had operating income of $1.84 billion on revenue of $2.58 billion. Translation: For all the whining about Vista folks are buying it.
* Enterprise sales are strong with Microsoft’s business division and server and tools unit posted double-digit revenue growth rates. The business division–Office, Sharepoint etc–in the December quarter reported operating income of $3.18 billion on revenue of $4.81 billion.
* Microsoft’s server and tools business had operating income of $1.72 billion on revenue of $3.28 billion in the December quarter.
* Microsoft says it is seeing “healthy demand from both businesses and consumers in the United States and our growth in emerging markets is especially strong.”
* Xbox 360 console sales hit the 17.7 million unit mark. That’s a lot of units for a relatively small profit. In the December quarter, Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division had an operating profit of $357 million on revenue of $3.06 billion.
* But Microsoft’s online services division–MSN etc.–still isn’t making money with a second quarter operating loss of $245 million on revenue of $863 million.
