Microsoft corporation will report its results for the third quarter of its fiscal year.

Windows 7, Xbox 360, Office 2007, Windows server 2008 RC2 sell very well.

What are the first prédictions for Wall Street and expected results?

We must not forget it is a fantastic year for Microsoft with new wave of products,

Office 2010, Visual Studio, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, Kin, Microsoft Natal it could be have an Xbox 360 Slim and Microsoft surface for public.

So what are the analyst predictions.

I hope Windows 7 numbers will be as awesome as before. This is the best OS ever. It really deserves great sales.

Here are my guesses:

• Revenue: 14.5 billion
• Net income: 3.2 billion
• EDD: 150 million USD profit

EDD is a nightmare to estimate, because you never know what they are doing. Windows 7 phones, Natal and Kin certainly required some investments. God only knows what other devices they are working on.

EDD does hold some crazy shit... I though WinMo wasn't part of EDD... Zune HD has had some sucess though they seem to just let it live out it's days till ZuneHD 2 and Win Phone 7 comes out

Hope Microsoft can get back on their feet to compete with Sony and Nintendo, and operating system products can beat Google and Apple.

Revenue : 16 billion

Profit : 5.9 billion

EDD: 350 millions USD profit.

Well the investments didnt just happen in the past qtr so I wouldnt expect they would make much difference now.  Although in the upcoming months they hope to change the investments into revenue/profit.

Microsoft has allways great Revenue and everything so i expect huge numbers aswell.

360 is doing good but Slim is needed its already has the best games coming out.

Gears of War 3 and Halo Reach alone kill the oposition.

Those things like WinMo7, Kin and Natal need to be released first. Until then they are just investments and those cost a lot of money (R&D). Sure they are promising and I am certain that WinMo 7 and Natal will make a profit, but that takes a while.

okay

My point was that the investments have been going on for many months. They didnt just start on January 1, 2010.  This has been a point of many a discussion about EDD over the past couple of years.  As Windows Mobile has been in investment mode big time over past several quarters as Windows Mobile lost marketshare to iPhone and Android.  EDD has remained profitable because of Xbox 360 business.  With the Danger aquisition starting to build and sell actual product (Kin line) and Windows Mobile 7 looking real good and coming out this fall the EDD outlook for FY2011 should be real good.