2011年7月25日星期一

Microsoft reports record revenue

Updated July 21, 2011, at 22: 53 GMT Microsoft stall at consumer electronics show in Las Vegas business division of Microsoft, which includes Office software - is your greatest salesperson us technology giant Microsoft said that its annual revenues reached a record of. 94bn $69 (2,400 £ 43).

Sales of video game Xbox 360 of the company and its Office software console helped boost growth.

Net income in the largest manufacturer of software in the world rose 23 percent to 23. 15bn for the year.

Figures, exceeding forecasts, shown final quarter revenues came to record from. $17 37bn, leading to the benefits of. 87bn $5.

Sales increased 8% to 17.37 million dollars, an increased mainly by sales of software for Office, Xbox and server behind Microsoft push in cloud computing.

Business Division of Microsoft, who sells the suite of Office programs, including Outlook, SharePoint and Excel, was the best-selling of the company during the quarter, increasing sales of 7% to. 8bn $5.

Unit of online services of the company, which runs the Bing search engine and the MSN internet portal, increased 16.5% to 662 million dollars in sales, but saw losses increase of $ 728 million as fight fight against competitor Google.

A weak spot was sales of its Windows product used, which slow down as sales of tablet PC eat in the demand for traditional PCs.

On Wednesday, chipmaker Intel warned that it would not be as strong as expected PC sales this year.

Microsoft itself is expected to enter the tablet market next year with the launch of its next operating system, name code Windows 8, which will be compatible with the low-power chips used by manufacturers of Tablet PC and mobile phone.

Microsoft is the latest tech company to surpass the expectations of gains.

Google, Apple and IBM recently reported profits.


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