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Microsoft blew past expectations<\/a> for December quarter revenue and profits thanks to huge Windows 7 sales.<\/p>\n Specifically, the Windows division achieved $6.9 billion in sales, up 70% year-over-year and beating Wall Street estimates in the low-to-mid $6 billion range. Microsoft says it has sold 60 million Windows 7 licenses so far, “making it the fastest selling operating system in history.”<\/p>\n The $5.4 billion in operating income from the Windows division represented more than 60% of the company’s total.<\/p>\n Overall, Microsoft reported $19.02 billion in sales, up 14% year-over-year and soundly beating the Street’s $17.84 billion consensus. EPS came in at $0.74 per share — $0.60 diluted per share — above the $0.59 analyst consensus.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Microsoft’s online division continues to burn cash. The Online Services Business lost $466 million from operations, worse than $320 million in the year-ago period. Revenue decreased to $581 million, from $609 million in the year-ago period, and below McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Sid Parakh’s estimate of $679 million.<\/p>\n And operating income jumped at the Entertainment and Devices business despite relatively flat revenue. The division, including the Xbox, reported $375 million in operating income, more than double the year-ago quarter, on almost flat sales of $4.75 billion.<\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n Microsoft blew past expectations for December quarter revenue and profits thanks to huge Windows 7 sales. Specifically, the Windows division achieved $6.9 billion in sales, up 70% year-over-year and beating Wall Street estimates in the low-to-mid $6 billion range. Microsoft says it has sold 60 million Windows 7 licenses so far, “making it the fastest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244332","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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