Microsoft is making money too – and even Vista's starting to take off
As well as Apple bragging about how much money it’s raked in so far this year, Microsoft is expected to announce some rather pretty upwards-pointing graphs this week too.
Analysts are predicting a huge 66% rise in profits for MS over the last year, as despite the numerous financial disasters going on around the globe people are still buying new computers so their internet goes a bit faster and World of Warcraft looks slightly prettier.
PC sales were up by well over 10% in the last quarter of 2007, in fact, as people upgraded to something nicer with a bigger hard drive and more USB sockets to help them get through the winter.
Citing strong automated sales of Vista with those new PCs and a decent performance of MS Office as well, calculator-wielding boffins predict Microsoft will make a profit of $4.35 billion. No estimates were given for the perennially loss-making gaming division – although with Microsoft managing to sell nearly five million copies of Halo 3 in America alone last autumn, and shifting 1.3m Xbox 360s there in December, it’s looking good.
Maybe even the Zune department will contribute $50 or so.
(Via Reuters)
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