Microsoft Reports Record Revenue

jones_supa sends this AFP report: "Microsoft soared to record revenues in the last quarter, confounding Wall Street forecasts on the back of strong demand for Xbox consoles, Surface tablets and Internet cloud services. The U.S.-based technology titan reported net income of $6.56 billion on revenue that hit a record high of $24.52 billion in the quarter that ended December 31. ... Sales of Surface tablets more than doubled from the previous quarter to hit $893 million, and Microsoft sold 7.4 million Xbox videogame consoles, with 3.9 million of those being new-generation Xbox One. Bing's share of the Internet search market grew to 18.2 percent while its share of the online search ad market grew about a third, according to Microsoft. Meanwhile, money made from selling Windows software to computer makers slid by three percent due to continue soft demand by consumers for personal computers, according to Microsoft."

Mostly Android revenue

[Anonymous Coward]

Nuff said.

Price Drop

[phmadore]

So this means the price of their software is gonna come down... right? :P

Re:Wow.

[Ralph Wiggam]

I assume that the company you run made more than $6.5B last quarter.

Noooo

[coolsnowmen]

The year of the death of the linux desktop :-(

Re:Wow.

[tripleevenfall]

Obviously a lot of people want to learn how to breakdance. That's what Surface tablets are for, right? I watch a lot of tv commercials

Re:Rumers..demise..exaggerated.

[Spy Handler]

If you choose Japanese, you need to install SQR Server 2008.

Re:Wow.

[dbIII]

and how much of your cloud runs on Azure?

It's not a leap year so it will be fine.