Microsoft has announced that the 525 million licenses of its OS, Windows 7 has sold. Moreover, it appears from the results that there are 66 million Xbox 360 consoles are active, of which 18 million pieces are also Kinect.
Also, Microsoft announced that more than 40 million people have signed up for Xbox Live. That means a increase of 33 percent compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
Passing the milestone of half a billion sold Windows 7 licenses could not prevent the Windows division of Microsoft less revenue turned. This came with 4,74 billion dollars, 6 percent lower than the previous quarter. The Entertainment & Devices division, where the Xbox under the other belongs to, did it with a turnover of 4.24 billion dollars better: that meant an increase of 15 percent compared to the previous quarter.
The revenue for Microsoft in the second quarter of fiscal year 2012 amounted to 20,89 billion dollars. Have not previously ran the company as much revenue in a quarter. The profit amounted to 6,62 billion dollars.