I think Microsoft’s recent earnings announcement even surprised them a little bit. While there’s been plenty of hype around the completely revamped Windows 8 OS, it looks like Windows 7 sales are still going strong for them.
Microsoft reported a stronger than expected set of earnings for the first quarter of this year, raking in an impressive $17.41B USD in revenue and a net profit of $5.11B USD ($0.60 USD per share). Revenue was up 6 percent from last year and easily beat analyst expectations. Profit is actually down 1 percent from last year but that’s mainly due to Microsoft’s increased spending.
Windows 7 sales were partly responsible for the increase in revenue. Even though Windows 7 is starting to near the end of its life cycle, sales for it rose to $4.62B USD, which is an increase of 4 percent from last year. Windows 7 is the fastest selling operating system of all time and is currently on around 40 percent of PCs.
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