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Office and Vista bring in record profits for Microsoft
Love it or hate it, each iteration of Windows and Office quickly becomes ubiquitous in work and home environments. To that end, despite many businesses refusing to upgrade and poor sales in many countries, the release of Windows Vista and Office 2007 have been nothing but a boon to Microsoft who are pulling in record profits. For the quarter, revenue for Microsoft was up $14.4 Billion. In fact, it seems that not even Microsoft was expecting such a success:
Revenues from Vista and Office even outperformed Microsoft's internal forecasts. Vista revenues were $300 million to $400 million higher than expected, while Office 2007 sales figures were $200 million above Microsoft's internal targets.
This all comes despite that their entertainment division, responsible for the Xbox and the Zune, is not faring as well. They don't expect this momentum to carry, but are still expecting strong profits from Vista and Office 2007 in the future.
Revenues from Vista and Office even outperformed Microsoft's internal forecasts. Vista revenues were $300 million to $400 million higher than expected, while Office 2007 sales figures were $200 million above Microsoft's internal targets.
This all comes despite that their entertainment division, responsible for the Xbox and the Zune, is not faring as well. They don't expect this momentum to carry, but are still expecting strong profits from Vista and Office 2007 in the future.
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User Comments (10)
Post a comment| phantasm66 on April 27, 2007 3:53 PM | Vista is superb I think. I don't see what everyone is
moaning about. Its given Windows a much needed update, and
if its making good profits for Microsoft then good for them
- they worked on Vista for years, and even had the good
sense to run a public beta test program. I think they are
doing well.
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| nathanskywalker on April 27, 2007 10:13 PM | Somewhat surprising to me; however, I guess most people
don't realize there are BETTER alternatives out there. That
said Vista, flawed as it is (disgustingly so in my opinion
 is still more user friendly to the common user. For even
mid level users I would seriously not recommend wasting your
money until MS at least shows it's first service pack,
yikes< No I don't like Vista, lol.
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| PanicX on April 28, 2007 4:30 AM | Honestly it only makes sense that this release would be a
success. There's simply greater and greater demand for PC's
as the years go by, therefore more and more Vista licenses
will be sold, as many machines don't have the option of
coming without Vista. Personally, I don't see any worthy benefit to upgrading to Vista, and continue to have more issues with the operating system that there really should be. Quirky things like the clipboard being cleared whenever a new message is opened in outlook, the inability to make FTP shortcuts open directly in Windows Explorer, and the UAC disconnecting your Remote Assistance sessions, really drive me crazy. Just to name a few.
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| windmill007 on April 28, 2007 7:39 AM | Vista is not surperb unless you have never used windows
before. It is just a prettied up XP. If thats what you like
then by all means enjoy. For the rest of us who use our
windows for actual productivity I'll take speed and
reliability anyday which XP delivers. Maybe a few years down
the road Vista will provide the same. Highly doubt it but if
all these newbies buying new computers continue to use Vista
.. us pros will be forced to use it too just to help the
newbies out.
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| phantasm66 on April 28, 2007 8:33 AM | It is just a prettied up XP I'd disagree. If
you look into it, you will see that "under the hood" there
are a great number of changes, including a new TCP/IP stack.
A great amount of old, out of date code (some of which had
been kicking around since 9x) has been removed and
replaced.I've seen no issues whatsoever with performance or speed, these things are myths or what people have experienced running betas and release candidates - the final version is just fine.
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| PanicX on April 28, 2007 2:28 PM | Originally posted by phantasm66: If you
look into it, you will see that "under the hood" there are a
great number of changes, I'll say! If it was
just another Windows 2000 Service pack, then there wouldn't
be nearly as many driver and application compatibility
issues.
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| bighead2007 on April 30, 2007 10:38 AM | I had a chance to play around with Vista and I had some
mixed views on it, I had a hard time with the some software
functioning with Vista, such as Sonic, (writing/burning
app.) but overall its a good look, I also heard that MS will
stop pre-loading XP on PCs cometh January 08 Is this true
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| howzz1854 on April 30, 2007 7:26 PM | dell has reinstated the XP prebundle back onto its website
due to people's high demand over Vista. vista sure "can" be great, just not yet, it's still at its infant age. lets not forget when XP first came out in 2000, it was nothing but issues and performance hits. but look where it's at now, by far the most stable and reliable, best windows yet. the 32 bit version vista runs fine for most users, however, for serious work flow under 64 bit, vista is still far away from being done. it still needs a lot more work in the oven.
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| phantasm66 on May 1, 2007 7:23 AM | Originally posted by howzz1854: ets not
forget when XP first came out in 2000, it was nothing but
issues and performance hits. but look where it's at now, by
far the most stable and reliable, best windows yet. A
very good point. And one that I have been making
repeatedly to all the Vista-skeptics.
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| Mictlantecuhtli on May 1, 2007 11:38 AM | Sure, they get record profits by selling Windows and Office
for three
dollars. Microsoft to offer three dollar Windows
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