The world's largest software maker Microsoft today announced the receipt of quarterly results below estimate amid falling sales of new computer equipment, as well as the expectations of the market due to the release of the new flagship product Windows and Office.
Net sales declined to 4.47 billion dollars, or 53 cents a share, from 5.74 billion dollars, or 68 cents per share for the period July-September 2011. The actual results of the company were below Wall Street expectations. The company's sales fell by almost 8% to 16.0 billion dollars, compared with expectations at $ 16.4 billion.
The basic unit of Microsoft, is busy working on the operating system Windows, faced with the negative impact of declining demand for new PCs and notebooks, as well as a custom shift in demand towards tablets and smartphones. On the eve of analyst firm Gartner has published quarterly results in the PC market, saying that sales are down by 8.3% to 87.5 million units.
In the report, the corporation said that the demand from corporate customers, update the server software and desktop systems within multigodovyh contracts in the quarter totaled 19.6 billion dollars, which is reflected in the article retained earnings in future periods. Analysts predicted the figure at 19.3 billion dollars. This quarter, analysts expect rates increase due to the beginning of market sales of the new version of Windows Server, as well as systems Windows 8/RT.
Overall, sales in the Microsoft Windows-division fell by 33% to 3.24 billion dollars, nedotyanuv to analysts' estimates in the 3.64 billion dollars. Sales in the Microsoft Business Division decreased by 2.4%. The corporation recognizes that the current decline - is the result of expectations on the eve of a new generation of software.
"While corporate sales, which ran for a top performance of the company in the last quarter slowed, they are still much better indicators of the consumer market," - declared Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein.
Microsoft server unit sales rose amid the release of new products by 8% to 4.55 billion dollars, but the Xbox-division revenues decreased to 1.695 trillion dollars, however, this result was above expectations at 1.62 billion dollars. Online segment showed an increase in sales of 8.7% to 697 million, while waiting in a 689 million dollars.
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