Microsoft has due to the sale of Windows 8 and achieved a record turnover achieved. In the last quarter of last year, which Windows 8 was launched, the company achieved a turnover of 21 billion dollars. There were sixty million Windows 8 licenses have been sold.
With this, the profit in the second quarter of its financial year, a total of three percent higher than a year earlier. That was mainly due to the Windows division that began in the last quarter of 5.8 billion dollars, a quarter more than a year earlier. Just under a billion dollars was brought in with upgrades to Windows 8 and Windows 8 licenses in the pre-sale were bought. In total, sixty million Windows 8 licenses have been sold, according to the software giant.
Microsoft’s business division, which includes Exchange and SharePoint, performed worse; that division took, with a turnover of $ 5.7 billion, 10 percent less than a year earlier. Also the entertainment and devices division performed less: there was a turnover of 3.8 billion dollars earned 11 percent less than a year earlier. Microsoft, regardless of the number of sold Windows 8 licenses, few details about numbers of products sold, such as Surface tablets.
All in all earned Microsoft a profit of $ 6.4 billion, about 200 million euros less than a year earlier. In the last quarter saw Microsoft’s sales are still dropping, partly as a result of the impending release of Windows 8. A quarter earlier, Microsoft for the first time in 25 year loss, mainly due to a failed acquisition.