Good figures in the latest Microsoft results

When a company the size of Microsoft releases its numbers every quarter, literally hundreds of thousands of people around the world hold their breath both due to the enormous financial volume, in billions of dollars, and the impact on the industry and the market.

Today Microsoft, despite the omens against it due to its low sales of some of its products, has shown that it has a more than he althy financial he alth by announcing a 19% profit increase.

Microsoft is not just PC's

One of the reasons why a decrease in the company's operations was predicted has been due to the significant drop in worldwide sales of personal computers, but this has had no impact on the 20, 49 billion dollars that the company has declared gross profit.

The star division has been devices and entertainment, which has obtained a fantastic 56% increase in profits, with a total of 2,531 million dollars.

However, the Business division has generated the most money, more than $6.300 million, although this represents the lowest percentage of profit growth with 8%.

The Windows division demonstrates that the commitment to the Windows 8 ecosystem is working by exceeding 5.7 billion dollars, representing a 23% increase in profits compared to the same period last year.

Conclusions

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These results can mark the fact that Ballmer is finally right in the face of such a risky bet that has been the revolution of the complete ecosystem that has meant the arrival of Windows 8 to the market for operating systems, both static and mobile, and the landing of hardware by Microsoft, such as Surface - an important revulsion that has shaken all areas of the manufacturing industry.

And that the giant has fully awakened in relation to the concept of Cloud Computing, advancing its delay with respect to the competitors, and offering systems with a quality/price ratio as effective as Windows Azure, Office 365, etc.

More information | Quarterly Report Q3 FY13