Microsoft’s profit falls this quarter

Microsoft’s net profit fell 22% in the June-September quarter, an announcement that came a week before they presented their new operating system, Windows 8 and hinted at shifting towards electronic tablets.

The net gain in terms of Microsoft, which in the current third quarter of its fiscal year starts, stood at 4.466 million dollars, because the lost sales of personal computers, while awaiting the arrival of a new system Windows.

The operating profit from ordinary activities was 26% lower than compared to the same quarter last year, to stand at 5.308 million dollars. The operating data was affected because consumers and businesses disrupted software purchases
until the arrival of the new Windows versions.

The Microsoft chief operating officer, Peter Klein, has insisted that "the fall in demand for personal computers before departure of Windows 8 has affected the operating profit." Revenues from July to September totalled 16.008
million dollars, about 8% less than the same quarter last year.

Microsoft justified part of the fall because the results exclude sales in advance of the new Windows and Office. However, the output of the market will not be completed until October 26, outside the quarter which is under review.

The major division revenues Microsoft company fell 2 percent in the July-September quarter, up 5,500 million, while the biggest drubbing they took the Windows operating system activities and Web Services Windows Live, whose revenue
fell 33 percent.

The arrival of the new Windows 8 comes on the heels of the expected commissioning of the tablet market Surface, with which Microsoft tries to set foot in this promising market, while sales of traditional laptops continue to fall.

The fiscal year begins for Microsoft in a rapidly changing environment with intense competition and technological transitions tablets, easier and more intuitive software and cloud computing, which allows access to personal information
at any time.

The prior fiscal year accounted for a decline of Microsoft annual net profit of 26 percent, while Apple, which in 2010 exceeded the market value of the giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, has opened a new era in computing.

Like Apple, Microsoft and Google both seek to dominate the market in portable electronic devices, software and applications in a network based system after the declining interest for the desktop computer or traditional laptops.

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