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Saturday, July 23, 2005

NEWS: MS FY 2005 

[via Microsoft]

Again, quite impressive results of Microsoft for the Fiscal Year 2005 (closed end of June).

Income FY 2005


Microsoft FY 2005

More than $12 bn net income. Wow. What an incredible margin. And $6.2 bn invested in R&D.

Segment revenues FY 2005


Microsoft FY 2005

Segmentation:
  • server&business

    • business solutions (eg: Navision, CRM, Solomon)

    • server&tools (eg: Windows Server, SQLServer, developer tools)

  • pc eXPerience

    • client (eg: WindowsXP, MediaCenter, TabletPC)

    • information worker (eg: Office, Project, Visio, OneNote)

  • consumer&devices

    • mobile&embedded devices (eg: Mobile SW, MapPoint)

    • home&entertainment (eg: Xbox, PC and online games)

    • MSN (eg: MSN Search)

WinXP and Office generate, as usual, a *lot* of cash for MS, definitely their cash-cows. A great positive development concerning the Server and Tool segment. The other segments are still losing money, excepted MSN.

Revenues 1985 - 2005


MS revenues 85-05

Net income 1985 - 2005


MS net income 85-05