Monday 31 January 2011

BBC News - Microsoft profits flat despite strong Kinect sales

A Microsoft booth featuring the Kinect controller

BBC News - Microsoft profits flat despite strong Kinect sales: "Microsoft's profits for the last three months of 2010 were barely changed, despite the popularity of its Kinect controller and strong sales of Office 2010 to businesses.

Net income was $6.63bn (£4.18bn), down from $6.66bn in 2009.

Sales in the Windows division fell 30% because of the launch of Windows 7 in the corresponding quarter of 2009.

The results were better than expected, as analysts had predicted weak PC sales would hit Microsoft harder."

Despite all the doubt, year after year Microsoft still does better than most people anticipate.

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