Microsoft is poised to have an epic Q2.

W8/WP8. Office 2013. Halo 4. Their Surface tablet went on pre-order yesterday and in less than a day the $499 vetsion sold out (currently on a 3 week back order). As a whole things are really looking up for them.

Skype was interesting like that. Up here, I've seen a few phones that can actually use Skype as well, like in Staples. They seem to be getting a lot more popular now, so it doesn't really surprise me that the revenues on that are getting higher.

I'd blame the still lighter recovery of the economy though. Why not use Skype, which is like pennies per minute to call Europe or Canada from the States and what not instead of huge bills you'd get from regular phone companies?

obviously here (people waiting for Win8 etc):

This line is also intereesting

MS did buy a lot of stuff it seems..

I think this bit of news got lost in the sauce:

"Microsoft deferred a total of $1.36bn of revenue, which it will regain in the following quarter."


Now I'm positive next quarter could be monstrous for them.

R&D on the NExtbox babe!!

Stock seems a bit high, but it's just before the holiday season so it may be spot on. Gotta have the selves full of xboxes.

Lol, why don't you guys fight over shipped numbers only, way more easy and in the end it'll be the number that matter, anyway. Every single time there is that "stock is under, stock is over" thing :D

Although... Sony did make that more difficult, merging PS2 + PS3 (and Vita + PSP)

For a slow quarter, good stuff!

360 division profiting despite R&D for next Xbox it seems. Preparation costs for tablets, windows 8, and windows phone a obvious factor too.

Yet another 3 months of 5+ billion net profits.

looks that way

Not very impressive for msft at all.