Thanks to a boost from Windows 7, Microsoft are saying that there quarterly revenue reached an impressive $19 Billion dollars as the company sold a record amount of its latest operating system. Microsoft the industry leader, said it earned $6.66 billion, or 74 cents per share, on revenue of $19.02 billion for the three-month period that ended December 31.
“Exceptional demand for Windows 7 led to the positive top-line growth for the company, “Our continuing commitment to managing costs allowed us to drive earnings performance ahead of the revenue growth.”
Said chief financial officer Peter Klein on Thursday. He touted that the release of Windows 7 on October 22nd really helped spur on sales for Microsoft and I’m not surprised it did.
We are thrilled by the consumer reception to Windows 7 and by business enthusiasm to adopt Windows 7,”
The company said that since the release of Windows 7 on the 22nd October until the 31 December, they company had sold more than 60 million Windows licenses which makes Windows 7 the fastest selling operating system in history!
The boys from Redmond also said that overall PC Sales were up 15-17 percent, however this was mainly driven by consumer sales as very little was happening in the business front. Microsoft also reported weak sales on the server front as well, however despite the weak sales they still managed to grow 2 percent compared to a year ago, which is impressive when you consider the economic downturn. It just goes to show that demand for cloud computing is continuing to grow.
The Microsoft business division reported a decline in sales of 3%, this may by be because people are holding off on buying Microsoft Office as they wait for Office 2010 to be released. But they did note that Bing is continuing to gain market share. However sales of their Xbox have declined, they only shipped 5.2 million units, down 13 % from a year ago.
Microsoft haven’t given a full forecast for the forthcoming quarter but they are saying they expect operating expenses s for the full fiscal year ending June 30 to total $26.2 billion to $26.5 billion.
Here’s a chart of how each of Microsoft’s individual business units performed:
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