{"id":1850,"date":"2007-10-26T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/26\/microsoft-still-a-fair-bit-of-juice-left\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T12:24:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T16:24:41","slug":"microsoft-still-a-fair-bit-of-juice-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/26\/microsoft-still-a-fair-bit-of-juice-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Still a fair bit of juice left"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gobsmacked. That’s what the Brits call it when something jaw-dropping happens and you can’t think of anything to say. Microsoft’s blockbuster quarterly results<\/a> kind of fall into that territory for me. I have to admit that I’m one of those skeptics who has been talking about the gigantic software maker as yesterday’s company: slow-growing, boring, etc.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong — I still think that Microsoft is most of those things, except maybe for the “slow growing” part. Who knew that the company had a quarter like that in it? Profit up 23 per cent<\/a> to $4.3-billion, revenue up 27 per cent to $13.8-billion. To put that in perspective, Microsoft made almost $50-million in profit a day during the quarter, which means it took less than a week to pay for its recent Facebook investment.<\/p>\n

Apparently the skepticism about Vista (which I have also shared) has been more or less misplaced (although it is important to remember that the 88 million copies sold are to retailers<\/a>, not to consumers), and a strong Halo 3 launch<\/a> also boosted the software behemoth’s bottom line by a substantial amount. And yes, all you Microsoft critics can rest easy — I know that a lot of those Vista sales and Office sales are a result of Microsoft’s virtual monopoly.<\/p>\n

The only issue for Microsoft now is the curse of inflated expectations: can the company produce a quarter like this one every time? Unlikely. And if there’s one thing the company likes to do, it’s to talk down expectations and then outperform. That could be a little harder to do now than it has been in the past.<\/p>\n

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Gobsmacked. That’s what the Brits call it when something jaw-dropping happens and you can’t think of anything to say. Microsoft’s blockbuster quarterly results kind of fall into that territory for me. I have to admit that I’m one of those skeptics who has been talking about the gigantic software maker as yesterday’s company: slow-growing, boring, … <\/p>\n

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