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.NET News Desk Microsoft Money Machine Grinds On
For the year, Microsoft did record revenues of $62.48 billion, up 7%
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jul. 23, 2010 12:45 AM
Microsoft’s stock price may stink but its P&L numbers are pretty much sweet perfume. In the June quarter, Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter and the end of its fiscal year it made $4.52 billion, 51 cents a share, up 48% on record revenues of $16.04 billion, up 22%. According to Wall Street it was only supposed to do 46 cents on $15.26 billion. The company can thank the PC upgrade cycle for letting it hold its head up high after Apple’s blowout quarter. PC shipments were up 21% in the June quarter, according to Gartner, although Microsoft thinks it was more like 22%-24%. Its OEM PC licenses were up 26%. Microsoft said it’s sold 175 million Windows 7 licenses to date and claimed that Bing and Windows Server are gaining share. It said sales of virtualization suites almost doubled. Chief operating officer Kevin Turner said in a statement that “We saw strong sales execution across all of our businesses, particularly in the enterprise with Windows 7 and Office 2010,” which came out this quarter. He said Microsoft’s transition to the cloud was well underway.
For the year, Microsoft did record revenues of $62.48 billion, up 7%, earning $18.76 billion, or $2.10 a share, up 29% Since Microsoft no longer provides guidance followers have to be content with its projected opex numbers for fiscal 2011: $26.9 billion-$27.3 billion, down from its March forecast of $27 billion-$27.5 billion. It issued generic guidance like predicting Windows would be in line with the market. It has $36.8 billion in the bank. Reader Feedback: Page 1 of 1
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