Microsoft: it is time Windows 8 arrives

Microsoft group had progressed well in the first half of 2012 despite the depreciation of assets on the balance sheet, but like other major groups, diminished sales of computers eventually catch up with more in his case the expectation created by the arrival of Windows 8 from 26 October which tended to dampen its activity in the third quarter of 2012.

And the company announced a turnover of $ 16 billion, down 8% compared to last year, and while the consensus was about $ 16.5 billion, with an operating profit of 5.3 billion (-26%) and a net profit of 4.47 billion dollars against 5.7 billion a year earlier. The industry Windows / Windows Live displays a sharp decline of 33%, with sales of $ 3.24 billion, taking into account exceptional events and Upgrade Windows offers pre-sales of Windows 8 to OEMs, and a decline of 9% excluding exceptional events. The CEO of Microsoft, Kevin Turner, stresses the importance of the arrival of Windows 8 and indicates that more than one thousand systems have been certified Windows 8 / Windows RT with its partners, tablets ultrabooks up to desktop PC.

 Business branch down 2%, again because of pending Windows 8, Xbox while activity remains stable, losing only 1% to $ 1.95 billion. The positive side, the branch server software is up 8%, while Windows Server 2012 arrives, while the activity of online services increased by 9% to $ 697 million, with a nice improvement advertising revenue.