Microsoft crises is uncomfortable

The Microsoft Corporation presented a report for the first financial quarter on Thursday evening, ending on September 30. The US and Asian stock markets with open arms adopted news of the financial successes of Microsoft and, as the Air Force notes, the trade week may end on a major note.

The profit of Bill Gates amounted to 2.73 billion dollars, which was 113% exceeded the indicator of the same quarter last year. Revenues grew from $ 6.1 billion. A year ago to $ 7.75 billion. Analysts on average expected income of $ 7.1 billion, K2-Kapital reports. These news could not but please analysts, because the brainchild of Bill Gates is traditionally considered a litmus piece of paper for the entire computer market. "Things to Wall Street, it seems, begin to get better," says Tsuyoshi Segava analyst from the Japanese investment bank Shinko Securities.

The key factor in income growth and profit of the Microsoft corporation was the introduction of a new system of updating software products for corporate users. Last year, in the hope of securing an uninterrupted influx of funds, the company invited users to pay for programs in installments, in exchange somewhat limiting their rights as owners until the cost of the cost of programs.

Consumers accepted a new offer with joy and rebuilt to this scheme much faster than analysts suggested. Such a scheme coincided with plans to reduce the costs of the company.

The chairman of the company’s board, Steve Balmer, said that from now on, when promoting new products, the company will focus not on advertising of all sorts of “cool” new -fashioned things, but on how a new product will help customers save money. "The times are difficult now, and we must be sure that customers understand that the transition from Windows 95 and Windows 98 to new operating rooms costs money spent," he says.

The success of the third quarter allowed the companies to increase forecasts for the whole of 2002.