"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: [...] > Take a look at RedHat IPO scam money aside for a moment, let's see...
1997: net loss 1318 (-) 1998: net loss 3738 (-) 1999: net loss 6388 (-) 2000: net loss 43053 (-) 2001: net loss 86773 (-) 2002: net loss 139949 (-) 2003: net loss 6734 (-) 2004: net income 13732 (+) 2005: net income 45426 (+) 2006: net income 79685 (+) ===== -149110 (loss) [...] > of the work that you do. Not even the big propietery companies > survive on just charhing for copies. Eh? ----- SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 65 percent, buoyed by sales of its new versions of Windows and Office and by upgrade coupons for the operating system issued over the holidays. Earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $4.93 billion, or 50 cents per share, from $2.98 billion, or 29 cents per share in same period last year. Results included legal charges amounting to 1 cent per share, but tax benefits boosted profit by 2 cents per share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial forecast a profit of 46 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter rose 32 percent to $14.4 billion. Wall Street was looking for $13.89 billion in sales. Microsoft started selling its newest operating system, Windows Vista, to consumers at the end of January. Its "client" division, responsible for Windows, brought in $5.27 billion in sales, 67 percent higher than a year ago. Microsoft said it deferred $1.2 billion in Windows Vista revenue to the third quarter, to account for upgrade coupons given to PC buyers during the holiday season before the consumer launch of the new operating system. Excluding this figure, client revenue totaled $4.1 billion, 30 higher than last year. Business division revenue, which includes sales of Office 2007, rose 34 percent to $4.83 billion. Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said the "excellent quarter" was due to better-than-expected sales of Vista and Office. Liddell said Vista beat internal forecasts by $300 million to $400 million, and Office 2007 sales were $200 million better than expected. The client division sales "are surprisingly ahead of where we thought they would come in," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at McAdams Wright Ragen. "They might indicate Vista is doing fine." ----- regards, alexander. -- "Moglen also said that Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system will fail in the market place and charged that Microsoft's Office software is ``dying.''" -- Copyright © vnunet.com _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss