Microsoft came in with its fiscal Q3 numbers Thursday and Windows revenues
were off for the second quarter in a row. This time they dipped 4% compared to
last year settling at $4.44 billion because of Apple and a nasty 40% year-
over-year decline in netbooks. Two weeks ago IDC called PC shipments off 3.2%
in calendar Q1 and Microsoft, unlike Intel, figures that the market was off
1%-3%, making its performance roughly in line with analysts? findings. Still
and all total revenues cleared $16.43 billion, up 13% over last year, against
Wall Street expectations of $16.19 billion, with earnings up 31% to $5.23
billion if only because of a nickel-a-share tax credit. Actually EPS came in
where the stock market predicted at 56 cents a share.
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