Microsoft reports a record earnings

Following Google and Intel, Microsoft reported the results of its financial activities in the fourth quarter of 2011, which for her is the second quarter of fiscal 2012. It is noted that in this period, Microsoft has received a record amount of revenue of $ 20.9 billion dollars, up 5% more than was received in the same period last year.

With revenue departments Microsoft Business Division was $ 6.28 billion (an increase of 3% over the same period last year). Most of the revenue could be gained by license sales of Office 2010, which has sold over 200 million over 18 months since the release of this package.

In addition, a 10% increased revenue from sales of Exchange and SharePoint, and increase revenue from the sale of Lync, and Dynamics CRM has made more than 30%. Server & Tools division was in the second quarter of fiscal 2012 revenue of $ 4.77 billion dollars, which is 11% higher than the same period last year.

Sales of products such as Windows Server and SQL Server has more than 10%, while revenue from System Center has more than 20%. Subdivision Windows and Windows Live Division during the reporting period was 4.74 billion dollars in revenue, up 6% less than in the corresponding period last year. It is noted that for the time it was already sold more than 525 million copies of Windows 7. Revenues from Online Services Division in the second quarter of fiscal 2012 totaled 784 million, revenue growth over the same period last year was 10%.

The market share of Bing search service in the U.S. rose to 15.1%, which was one of the main reasons for the growth of income.

The value of the net profit was 6.62 billion dollars (6.63 billion during the same period last year).