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26.10.2007, 00:14 23% Gewinnsteigerung
Microsoft hat die Zahlen des ersten Quartals des Geschäftsjahres 2008 bekannt gegeben. Dabei übertraf das Ergebnis alle Erwartungen. Der Umsatz steigerte sich um 27% auf 13,76 Milliarden US-Dollar, der Gewinn um 23% auf 4,29 Milliarden US-Dollar. Dies ist das größte Umsatzwachstum von Microsoft seit 1999. MicrosoftMicrosoft
Als Faktoren für die guten Zahlen gab Microsoft die Nachfrage nach Windows Vista, Office und Halo 3 an. Für das nächste Quartal erwartet Microsoft einen Umsatz von 15,6 bis 16,1 Milliarden Dollar.
Microsoft's Xbox arm posts rare profit
Halo 3 spurs 360 sales, helps push entertainment and devices division to $165 million operating profit for fiscal first quarter.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Oct 25, 2007 3:51 pm PT
Last July, Microsoft entertainment and devices division president Robbie Bach said the software giant's Xbox 360 segment would post a profit for the first time in the company's 2008 fiscal year. Microsoft reported its first-quarter results for the fiscal year today, and the blockbuster success of Halo 3 has already realized Bach's prediction.
Launched with mere days remaining in the first fiscal quarter (which ended September 30), Halo 3 raked in more than $300 million worldwide in its opening week, and $170 million within 24 hours of going on sale in the US alone. That helped push the Xbox 360 division's revenues for the quarter to $1.93 billion, about 91 percent more than it brought in during last year's first fiscal quarter.
Halo 3 also reversed the entertainment and devices division's money-losing trend, helping it turn the previous first quarter's $142 million operating loss into an operating profit of $165 million. Microsoft also benefited from not having its bottom line gutted by over $1 billion in charges stemming from the 360's now-notoriously high hardware failure rate, as was the case last quarter.
The rest of Microsoft also had a banner quarter, with the company as a whole experiencing its biggest first-quarter revenue growth since 1999. For the three-month stretch, Microsoft brought in revenues of $13.76 billion, up 27 percent year-over-year. Of that money, $4.29 billion was recorded as net income, a 23 percent leap over the previous first quarter.
For those following the next-generation console race, today also saw Sony and Nintendo post their latest financial results.
[CLARIFICATION]: The quarter ended September 30 was the entertainment and devices division's first profitable three-month stretch. However, the previous division to house the Xbox operation, the home and entertainment division, managed to turn a profit for the last quarter of calendar 2004, thanks in large part to the release of Halo 2.
