Windows quarterly sales grew by 28%
Microsoft has described its performance in the third fiscal quarter, which ended March 31. This data being presented, the past three months have been the best such period in the history of the company. A huge difference made the operating system Windows 7, the official debut of which took place on October 22, 2009.
It’s being reported in particular, that quarterly revenue from sales of Microsoft Windows operating systems has grown at an annual rate of 28%. This helped the Redmond Company to have record revenue of $ 14.5 billion in the third fiscal quarter, increasing this figure by six percent compared to the previous year.
Note, that a considerable role in such a good performance has played the significant increase in revenue from Microsoft’s Bing search advertising, as well as on Xbox Live and various online services. In addition, quarterly net profit corporation was $ 4.01 billion, which is a 35% increase comparing to the previous year, and Windows 7 has overcome its rising popularity and is already installed on more than 10 percent of all computers in the world.
