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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Microsoft (Qtr results) Beat expectations: Revenue: $20.5bn (up 8%), Income $6.7bn (up 5%), E&D division $342m profit, XBOX:1.3m shipped

maximrace on 18 April 2013
kowenicki said:
maximrace said:
What time (GMT) will the results come out?


10.30pm officially I believe.  Usually a bit beofre that though, so from 9.30 to 10.


Great, thanks!



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hasonap on 18 April 2013
DirtyP2002 said:
hasonap said:

I Think the EPS estimates and Revenue is going to fall short with around 400m(21.1) for the Revenue.


Xboxs shipped will be locked at 900k give or take 50k


EDD profits will sit at the comfortable 250 to 350m


The Business division is going to get a healthy boost and the Windows division will likely get that too


Online services is going to inch a bit closer to black(I Think it's time for Bing to turn a profit in 2013)

I doubt it.
R&D for Xbox 720, Xbox Mini (if it exists), Windows Phone will hurt them. And there was no gigantic game released and the console sales are down YoY.

The only positive thing might be Xbox Live and cost reduction for the 360.

Well my estimate isn't really reflecting on what Xbox does I am looking at WP and seeing as Nokia just announced 5.6m it won't hurt them as much as it has been. I might take it down to 200m to 300m but there is no way the R&D is going to push away the profits to turn into losses



ethomaz on 18 April 2013

lol NPD and Microsoft earning at the same time.



dallas on 18 April 2013

Ths business division should do well, but only bc win8 just came out, but give that division a year Nd the numbers will collapse.



ironmanDX on 18 April 2013

Tagging. I'm interested in how much R&D costs them, minimal to the large scale but still interesting.



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hasonap on 18 April 2013
dallas said:
Ths business division should do well, but only bc win8 just came out, but give that division a year Nd the numbers will collapse.

Have a snack while you look up Wikipedia to see what divisions include what in Microsoft :P

I mean as Kowen is saying what does the Business division(Office among other things) have to do with WIN8(Windows division)???



dallas on 18 April 2013

I meant the windows division when I said that, and as I said, windows 8 will be doing fine so-so, until the new product upswing goes away and msft is left with much fewer windows customers.



hasonap on 18 April 2013
dallas said:
I meant the windows division when I said that, and as I said, windows 8 will be doing fine so-so, until the new product upswing goes away and msft is left with much fewer windows customers.

Well that clears that but you've got to rememeber that Blue is coming out this year along with a bunch of both cheaper tablets/laptops and more mremium ones. We already know that the demand for touchscreen laptops is huge and the PC makers hadn't predicted that so this year they are more prepared for the holiday and school seasons.

So if MS and the PC makers play the cards right alongwith Intel I think the Windows will not only bounce back but it may even take over that pole position again in the battle of the most profitable division inside MS



dallas on 18 April 2013

No, bc msft is transitioning to a period where tablets and smartphones are eating up PC sales, and msft will never have a chance to best Android or IOS, so future sales look mediocre



Argh_College on 18 April 2013
dallas said:
No, bc msft is transitioning to a period where tablets and smartphones are eating up PC sales, and msft will never have a chance to best Android or IOS, so future sales look mediocre

TROLOLOL 

Someone will eat cow in some years.

Dont Worry About Pcs, they are here to stay, people need Pcs to make games, smartphones and tablets did you know ? :D