Record revenue reported from Redmond: Microsoft brings in $16 billion

Record revenue reported from Redmond: Microsoft brings in $16 billion
Microsoft has joined the list of companies reporting record quarterly revenues. Microsoft’s fourth-quarter revenue was a record $US16.04 billion, up 22% year on year. The company performed even better in terms of operating and net income, which were up 49% and 50% respectively to $US5.93 billion and $US4.52 billion. “We saw strong sales execution across all of our businesses, particularly in the …

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Hedge Fund T2 Partners Presentation on Microsoft, BP & Anheuser-Busch InBev

Hedge Fund T2 Partners Presentation on Microsoft, BP & Anheuser-Busch InBev
If there’s one overwhelming theme we’ve seen from hedge funds as of late, it would be the ‘long high quality large caps’ trade.

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Microsoft Q4 profit soars 48% to $4.52 bn on Windows 7

Microsoft Q4 profit soars 48% to $4.52 bn on Windows 7
Microsoft Corp’s profit surged 48 per cent to $4.52 billion for the three months ended June, mainly boosted by strong sales of Windows 7 and Office 2010.

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Microsoft Revenues Benefit from Windows 7, Business Spending

Microsoft Revenues Benefit from Windows 7, Business Spending
Microsoft posted revenues of $16.04 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter, surpassing analyst estimates. Microsoft reported some 175 million Windows 7 licenses sold so far.

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Microsoft reveals Windows Phone 7 handset manufacturers

Microsoft reveals Windows Phone 7 handset manufacturers
THE INQUIRER Fingers the usual suspects

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Microsoft to Give Employees a Windows Phone 7 Phone

Microsoft to Give Employees a Windows Phone 7 Phone
The Samsung Captivate delivers Android super-phone power to AT&T subscribers.

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Introducing Microsoft Operating Systems Includes Windows Vista, Xp, 2000, Nt, 3.1 and Dos

It’s been a long time coming. Microsoft hasn’t released a new consumer operating system since Windows XP came out in October, 2001. Now, nearly six years later, Windows has once again been polished, modernized and buffed to a glossy sheen for a newer consumer era. Windows Vista is here.

Windows XP was a big deal for the Windows family. Although Microsoft continued to release consumer operating systems built upon the Windows 95 kernel (including Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me), it targeted only businesses and power users with its NT kernel offerings such as Windows NT and Windows 2000.

There was a difference. For backward compatibility to the days of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 computing, Microsoft stuck with the 9x kernel for consumers. That kernel was an intricate meshwork of 16-bit (DOS) and 32-bit (NT) code that never truly abandoned the DOS conventions and never fully took advantage of the pure 32-bit power. The NT kernel, however, was built to be a 32-bit monster from the start, without the ambition to run 16-bit Windows 3.1 software or the thousands of games released for DOS. In 2001, Windows XP brought the parallel lines of Windows business and consumer operating systems together at last. With its Compatibility Modes, it was able to run some DOS and Windows 3.1 software, but because the computing world had started its move to 32-bit in 1995, there wasn’t as much demand for backward compatibility. Windows XP proved to be far more stable than any of the 9x flavors (especially the justifiably hated Windows Me), and it was multimedia-friendly and an excellent platform for gaming.

And aren’t multimedia and gaming what computers are all about?

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