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Ashadian on 25 January 2014
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kowenicki said:
Ashadian said:
kowenicki said:

I expect a big drop in 360. Obviously around 3m shipped ONE's and some decent news on Mobile and Surface.  Record revenue and proift for the quarter is likely.

UPDATE:

Revenue of $24bn and profits of $6.56bn.  Incredible numbers.

 

 

BBC:

Microsoft reports better-than-expected earnings

  Microsoft's shares rose on the back of better-than-expected quarterly profits

 

The firm reported a net income of $6.56bn (£3.94bn) for the quarter, up from $6.38bn a year earlier.

Its earnings were boosted by strong sales of its new Xbox game console and its Surface tablets during the holiday season.

The company also saw strong demand from businesses for its cloud services.

Overall, the firm's revenue rose 14% during the quarter to $24.5bn. Its shares rose close to 4% on the news in after-hours trading.

Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, called it a great quarter and said that investments the firm was making in devices and services was driving the strong results.

The quarterly results showed a 13% increase in consumer sales. This was boosted by 7.4 million unit sales of Xbox consoles, up from 5.9 million a year earlier.

The new Xbox One, which was launched in November, contributed more than half of overall Xbox sales numbers in the quarter.

Sales of the firm's cloud programs, such as Office 365 and Azure, more than doubled in the December quarter from a year earlier, while sales of its Surface tablets doubled from the previous quarter.


You would think the way you post these articles that you own MS or have significant investment in it. I don't understand why your so chuffed at their financial results???

Also why don't you compare the financial results of Apple,Samsung and Google to MS who are their real competition? 

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I do.... as I do in Apple.  lol.

I dont understand why you are so upset about it?  Anyone would think you massively prefered a competitior or something.

Im not comparing MS results with anyone... Im reporting their awesome results.  And for your information MS doesnt compete with Samsung in any way really, there is no similarity whatsoever.  Apple and Google are also very different businesses to Microsoft.

 


I'm not upset about it at all! Sony's finances don't make any difference to me. You sound exactly like the guy on a mobile phones forum always bigging up Samsung and their financial state as though you were CEO's or significant shareholders. MS have always been richer than Sony. Nothing new here. How do you thing Bill Gates is so rich??? I've seen some sad things but i find it absolutely hilarious and downright crazy when people use finacial results to big up a company they are fanboys of. Talk games and consoles!

Yes your right  Apple,Google and Samsung aren't MS main competitors. It must Sony and Nintendo and good old Sega!

I think you'll find Apple and Google are MS main competition. Especially as both have OS's. Samsung is a another big threat especially in the devices section.