Microsoft cash cows

Microsoft’s third quarter for fiscal 2011 was a bang-up one for Office, and a bang-down one for Windows.

- Microsoft cash cows lined up to provide the milk -

Windows/Windows Live revenues per quarter (in billions)

Q3 FY11  4.4  (Jan 11 - March 11)
Q2 FY11  5.1  (Oct. 10 - Dec. 10)
Q1 FY11  4.8  (July 10 - Sept. 10)
Q4 FY10  4.6  (April 10 - June 10)
Q3 FY10  4.7  (Jan. 10 - March 10)
Q2 FY10  7.2  (Oct. 09 - Dec .09) ** Windows 7 launched October 2009
Q1 FY10  2.9  (July 09 - Sept.09)




Office division revenues per quarter (in billions)
Q3 FY11  5.3 (Jan 11 - March 11)
Q2 FY11  6.0 (Oct. 10 - Dec. 10)
Q1 FY11  5.1 (July 10 - Sept. 10)
Q4 FY10  5.3 (April 10 - June 10) ** Office 2010 launched May 2010
Q3 FY10  4.3 (Jan. 10 - March 10)
Q2 FY10  4.9 (Oct. 09 - Dec. 09)
Q1 FY10  4.5 (July 09 - Sept. 09)

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PC Sales Off, Games Buoy Microsoft

Windows & Windows Live Division : 4.4 billion revenue ;
4% Y/Y decrease ;
Sales of Windows for consumers PCs fell 8 percent in the quarter;
Windows for netbooks, declined 40 percent. Business PC up 9%.

Revenue from Microsoft’s Online Services Division (MSN, Bing)  lost $726 million in operating income, continuing a pattern of losses. 

Revenue from Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, 
(Xbox 360 , Kinect ) gained 60 percent, to $1.94 billion.
Kinect did well, selling 2.4 million units in the quarter.
Customers bought 2.7 million Xbox 360s. 

 

Microsoft Reports Record Third-Quarter Results