{"id":242808,"date":"2010-01-28T16:13:48","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/28\/windows-7-carries-microsoft-to-earnings-bliss\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:13:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:13:48","slug":"windows-7-carries-microsoft-to-earnings-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242808","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 carries Microsoft to earnings bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"windowsMicrosoft <\/a>reported better than expected earnings today because of brisk sales of its Windows 7 operating system during its first quarter of availability.<\/p>\n

For Microsoft’s fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31., the company reported revenues of $19.2 billion and earnings per share of 74 cents. Windows 7 launched in October and it has received more kudos and had better sales than its predecessor Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

Analysts were expecting revenue of $17.84 billion and earnings of 59 cents per share, compared to $16.63 billion and 47 cents per share during the year-ago quarter. Microsoft’s solid performance confirms a recovery in the PC market, as evidenced by strong earnings from Intel, whose revenues were up 28 percent and earnings were up 875 percent from year ago figures<\/a>. Advanced Micro Devices, which like Intel sells PC microprocessors, also made its first profit in 13 quarters<\/a> in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft reported better than expected earnings today because of brisk sales of its Windows 7 operating system during its first quarter of availability. For Microsoft’s fiscal second quarter, which ended Dec. 31., the company reported revenues of $19.2 billion and earnings per share of 74 cents. Windows 7 launched in October and it has received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}