Microsoft records banner sales year

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	Microsoft records banner sales year Proving naysayers incorrect once again, Microsoft posted a banner fiscal 2011 year in revenue, as sales of Microsoft Office, server software and Xbox continued to drive growth, even as sales of Windows leveled off, according to the company. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Mimecast Migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010? Answer 4 questions before you switch. We'll show you your time & resource savings by managing your Exchange environment with our cloud-based solution that: eliminates complexity during & after migration, provides continuity, archiving & security in a single solution and delivers a 100% service availability SLA during planned & unplanned outages. Click to continue In this Issue Preston Gralla: Should Microsoft unload Bing? Heck, no! IT Blogwatch: Wow! Microsoft's record financial year beats street Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Continuing Coverage: Microsoft Windows 7 -- Vista Reloaded Preston Gralla: Microsoft breakout quarter shows the future of the company isn't spelled "Windows" RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SAP The Real-time Value of BI Today's top performing organizations have developed a strategy to manage growth in data volume & complexity while exploiting that data to create quicker business insight. Learn how best-in-class companies are delivering broader access to information in a shorter timeframe to facilitate substantial improvement in key business performance metrics. Click to continue Preston Gralla: Should Microsoft unload Bing? Heck, no! A pair of bloggers in the New York Times today recommend that Microsoft sell Bing as a way to pare the company's online losses and fatten the bottom line for investors. Selling Bing may save money in the short term, but in the long term it would ensure Microsoft's eventual irrelevency in the Internet and mobile future.   Read More IT Blogwatch: Wow! Microsoft's record financial year beats street Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) released its year-end results last night, and they were far better than expected. Revenues and profit were up almost across the board, with earnings 17% higher than expected. But there's still an ugly comparison with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). In IT Blogwatch, bloggers run the numbers.   Read More WHITE PAPER: Red Hat The Linux Factor Linux offers robust security—required by many government applications—and provides unprecedented value because of its hardware and application independence, according to recent research. Read this white paper to see how its cost savings, security and flexibility can benefit your organization. Read More Microsoft spells out Office for Mac bugs in Lion Microsoft last week confirmed that customers running Office for Mac will experience problems with the suite on Apple's new Lion operating system. Read More Continuing Coverage: Microsoft Windows 7 -- Vista Reloaded Track the latest news, opinion and analysis swirling around Microsoft's next operating system. The OS wars live on. Read More Preston Gralla: Microsoft breakout quarter shows the future of the company isn't spelled "Windows" Yesterday's earnings report shows that Microsoft had a breakout quarter and year, with its highest yearly revenue in history at $69.94 billion and a big-growth quarter. A closer look shows that the company's big earnings this quarter weren't driven by Windows. Microsoft should take the hint, and stop pushing the Windows brand so hard.   Read More
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