Microsoft Reports $20.9B Revenue, 525M Windows 7 Sold
Things are still running well at Microsoft.
Microsoft doing all right for itself as it announced a quarterly revenue of $20.89 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2011, a 5 percent increase from the prior year period.
“We delivered solid financial results, even as we prepare for a launch year that will accelerate many of our key products and services,” said Steve Ballmer, chief executive officer at Microsoft. “Coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show, we’re seeing very positive reviews for our new phones and PCs, and a strong response to our new Metro style design that will unify consumer experiences across our phones, PCs, tablets, and television in 2012.”
The Microsoft Business Division reported $6.28 billion in second quarter revenue, a 3 percent increase from the prior year period. Nearly 200 million licenses of Office 2010 have been sold in the 18 months since launch.
The Server & Tools business posted $4.77 billion in second quarter revenue, an 11 percent increase from the prior year period, reflecting double-digit revenue growth in Windows Server and SQL Server premium editions and more than 20 percent growth in System Center revenue.
The Windows and Windows Live Division posted revenue of $4.74 billion, a 6 percent decline from the prior period. Microsoft has sold over 525 million Windows 7 licenses since launch.
The Online Services Division reported revenue of $784 million, a 10 percent increase from the prior year period. Bing organic US market share grew to 15.1 percent while Bing-powered US market share, including Yahoo! properties, was approximately 27 percent.
The Entertainment & Devices Division posted revenue of $4.24 billion, an increase of 15 percent from the prior period. The Xbox 360 installed base now totals approximately 66 million consoles and 18 million Kinect sensors. Xbox LIVE now has 40 million members worldwide, an increase of 33 percent from the prior year period.
“In addition to the continued strength of our commercial business, this holiday season was the strongest in Microsoft history, thanks to good sales execution and compelling products like Xbox 360 and Kinect,” said Kevin Turner, chief operating officer at Microsoft. “We are seeing a lot of excitement for new devices, from Windows 7 Ultrabooks to new Windows Phones, as well as growing anticipation for Windows 8.”

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I'll give Steve Ballmer one thing, he knows the key to success(which lots of companies are failing to do atm), adaption, and innovation.
powering 500M more PCs in India and China
that's forcing people to buy your product.
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I'll give Steve Ballmer one thing, he knows the key to success(which lots of companies are failing to do atm), adaption, and innovation.
powering 500M more PCs in India and China
That's what's called a natural monopoly in economics.
That also explains their 33% net profit margin. Even Apple or Google don't have profit margins that high.
After all, the Windows 8 Developer's Build a PC Tower Killer.
... and your point is ?
Google no, Apple yes.
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/02/what-doth-it-profit-an-iphone/
Wrong.
Apple net profit margin 2011 = profit/revenue = 25.922 billion/108.249 billion = 24%
Google net profit margin 2011 = profit/revenue = 8.505 billion/29.321 billion = 29%
Microsoft net profit margin 2011 = profit/revenue = 23.15 billion/69.94 billion = 33%
The margin shown in your link is the gross profit margin, which is something entirely different than the net profit margin.
It measures the revenue of a particular product against the costs that can be directly attributed to that product. Those include production, materials, shipping, etc., but they don't include fixed costs like Research&Development, running the supporting infrastructure (iTunes/Appstore/whatever) and all the other costs you have when running a company.
Apparently none of you remember how bad most of MS operating systems have been over the years.
Windows 3.x: Completely counter intuitive and almost unusable for anyone without training in computers.
Windows 95: Just plain awful, MS grossly understated what the minimum system requirements were for this and as a result ran like complete crap on all but the newest machines with at least 16mb of ram. Plus 4 major revisions during its lifespan just to work out "most" of the bugs.
Windows 98: Marginally better but still pretty bad. Random system freezes and/or BSOD anyone.
Windows ME: A really bad revision of 98, most people had huge driver and software issues and even MS abandoned it after only a couple of years.
Windows XP: Finally an operating system that worked pretty good, but it took until SP2 almost 2 years after the first release to make it that way.
Windows Vista: This operating system was as bad as ME was or worse and even MS has admitted that this was probably one of their worst products ever.
Yes there are a couple not on that list but you should get the idea.
The whole time MS has been stabbing us in the wallet until it bled to pay for all of this crap.
I think they have more than earned their bad reputation and deserve every last comment about how much they suck.
Ok, if you are so great and they are so incompetent, why don't build a good operating system and make a fortune on it? Lets see you write millions of lines of code without a single bug.
Microsoft is a world class company and they didn't get there by accident; people are readily willing to adopt their software. They have no monopoly, they are merely dominant in the market because if they were to actually to make an operating system that did not function, nobody would buy it and they would lose sales to competition.
Microsoft has to be offering something that people want, otherwise there would be no reason to use it and everybody would stick to free Linux platforms. It is obnoxious to see people making stupid comments about how Microsoft is a horrible company that sucks our wallets dry when we are the ones that open the wallets and freely give them our own money. Why? because we want their software, instead of an alternative that we think is worse.
Still want a refund from MS for Windoze ME and Windoze Vista, both were horrible OSes.
no I wasn't the one who gave you a thumbs down.