Microsoft makes more profit from Windows and Surface tablets

Despite declining pc sales, Microsoft has in the last quarter, 19 percent more profit made. That was mainly due to the divisions responsible for Windows and Surface tablets, is evident from the figures.

Microsoft made in the last quarter of the 7.6 billion dollar profit, on a turnover of 20.5 billion dollars. This is evident from the quarterly figures that the company last night presented. The sales growth was largely due to the good performance of the Windows division, with revenue from that division grew 23 percent compared to a year earlier, to $ 5.7 billion.

Incidentally, that is partly due to an accounting trick: the revenue that Microsoft earned from upgrades from earlier Windows versions to Windows 8, it was not until this quarter is credited. Was that not happened, than the revenue of the Windows division roughly remained the same. Although Microsoft no sales are disclosed, is evident from the figures that go better with the Windows division and Windows 8 than analysts had feared.

Also the better performance of the Business division, which includes business licenses under attack, helped. The revenue from that division grew by 8 percent to 6.3 billion dollars. The entertainment division of Microsoft, where the Xbox 360 and the Surface tablet, grew by a whopping 56 percent to $ 2.5 billion. According to Microsoft, the growth is largely due to the sales of the Surface tablets.

With the internet division of Microsoft was again bad: that division made a 262 million dollar loss. That is less than a year earlier, when the division 480 million dollars saw outflows. In addition, it had Microsoft in the last quarter of 733 million dollar write-off, thanks to a fine from the European Commission.

In a conference call with shareholders, said chief financial officer Peter Klein, whose departure on the same day it was announced, that the development of Windows Blue will be taken into account with the feedback from customers on Windows 8. Many customers are dissatisfied with the new interface of Windows 8, this confusion can calls. Under the absence of the start menu has at a part of the user dissatisfaction caused, but according to rumors will return in Windows Blue.

Microsoft still has confidence in the operating system: in an e-mail to employees, writes ceo Steve Ballmer, according to The New York Times that the operating system together with Windows Phone 8 paves the way to long-term growth’.