{"id":5700,"date":"2012-04-20T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2012-04-20T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T09:14:05","slug":"microsoft-results-old-business-model-still-humming-future-a-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/5700-microsoft-results-old-business-model-still-humming-future-a-concern.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft results: old business model still humming, future a concern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has published<\/a> its latest financials. Here is my at-a-glance summary:<\/p>\n

Quarter ending March 31st 2012<\/em> vs quarter ending March 31st 2011, $millions<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Segment<\/td>\nRevenue<\/td>\nChange<\/td>\nProfit<\/td>\nChange<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Client (Windows + Live)<\/td>\n4624<\/td>\n+177<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n2952<\/td>\n+160<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Server and Tools<\/td>\n4572<\/td>\n+386<\/td>\n1738<\/td>\n+285<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Online<\/td>\n707<\/td>\n+40<\/td>\n-479<\/span><\/td>\n+297<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business (Office)<\/td>\n5814<\/td>\n+485<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n3770<\/td>\n+457<\/font><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Entertainment and devices<\/td>\n1616<\/td>\n-319<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n-229<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n-439<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What is notable? Well, Windows 7 is still driving Enterprise sales, but more striking is the success of Microsoft\u2019s server business. The company reports \u201cdouble-digit\u201d growth for SQL Server and more than 20% growth in System Center. This seems to be evidence that the company\u2019s private cloud strategy is working; and from what I have seen of the forthcoming Server 8, I expect it to continue to work.<\/p>\n

Losing $229m in entertainment and devices seems careless though the beleaguered Windows Phone must be in there too. Windows Phone is not mentioned in the press release.<\/p>\n

Overall these are impressive figures for a company widely perceived as being overtaken by Apple, Google and Amazon in the things that matter for the future: mobile, internet and cloud.<\/p>\n

At the same time, those \u201cthings that matter\u201d are exactly the areas of weakness, which must be a concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has published its latest financials. Here is my at-a-glance summary: Quarter ending March 31st 2012 vs quarter ending March 31st 2011, $millions Segment Revenue Change Profit Change Client (Windows + Live) 4624 +177 2952 +160 Server and Tools 4572 +386 1738 +285 Online 707 +40 -479 +297 Business (Office) 5814 +485 3770 +457 Entertainment … Continue reading Microsoft results: old business model still humming, future a concern<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22,55,67,79,97],"tags":[137,158,267,422,586],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing","category-database","category-microsoft","category-professional","category-software","category-windows","tag-amazon","tag-apple","tag-cloud-computing","tag-google","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}