Year end in berne for the Microsoft software giant. For the first time in 23 years, since as it is, its turnover and its outcome are declining from one year to the other. Ended June 30, 2008-09 will be marked by a decline of 3 of the volume of activities, to 58,44 billion, and a drop of 18 of its net income to 14,57 billion. Nothing dramatic, but it shows that Microsoft has suffered as others of the crisis and the reports of decisions of purchases of customers. "The size of the signed Affairs declined." "This is linked to budgetary pressures and the increase in unemployment", said Bill Koefoed, Director of investor relations. This phenomenon was particularly sensible in the fourth quarter where, for the first time, Windows sales dropped 29, 3,11 billion. This division, which generates half of the operational profits of the group, has undergone head-on the decline in the market of PC ( - 5 over the last three months to a year earlier), including on the segment of the ordinateurs of business (PC and serveurs).
The abyss of the Internet division
The jump in sales of Netbooks, which now represent 11 of the market, is only a consolation as operating system marketed with these machines much less related to the editor. Moreover, it is about to be attacked head-on by Google with Chrome, who wants to get an operating system for Netbooks. Finally, the Internet division remained a gouffre recording of operating loss that income ($ 731 million). Overall, all the activities Microsoft saw their affaires sales plunge: the servers and tools (-6) as the desktop software (-13). This is also true for activities online (-13), who have suffered from the decline in prices of advertising on the Internet.
Despite the early successful Bing, its new search tool (traffic to merchant sites was multiplied by three and one linked to travel 90 grows each month), the advertising revenue associated with the research remained stable. As to the division of recreation (-25), it has sold only 1.2 million consoles in the last quarter, for a total of 11 million on the year. In the end, in the fourth quarter, the turnover of Microsoft has fallen by 17 to 13.1 billion dollars, below analysts forecasts. Net income fell by 29 to 3.04 billion. To adapt to a much more difficult economic context, the editor has continued to tighten its costs. For the first time, 5,000 people were laid off. Microsoft has even exceeded its goals by reducing expenditures in the amount of $ 3 billion. "We have a much better discipline to control costs, I think that society is much stronger than a year ago," said Chris Liddell, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft.
He does not expect a significant improvement in the economy before the calendar year 2010. PC shipments should still back over the next three months, pending the release of the new operating system from Microsoft, Windows 7, which will be marketed on 22 October. It will be necessary that this new version please more customers than the previous one, Windows Vista, which is not led many renewals of machines.
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