Microsoft profit up 60% to 6.7bn

January 29, 2010 · Filed Under News · Comment

Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that the company’s earnings in the most recent quarter jumped as mush as 60 per cent. The earnings have reportedly been boosted by the rebound in personal computer sales.

During the holiday shopping season back in 2009, the sales of PC industry bounced back after almost a year long rough sales.

Microsoft’s earnings have been closely tied to computer sales because its two most profitable divisions make the Windows OS and the Office business software.

Microsoft’s net income for the second financial quarter, ending Dec. 31, rose to USD 6.7 billion as compared to the USD 4.2 billion in the year-ago period.

The company revenues grew 14 per cent to USD 19 billion.

The revenue from Windows grew 70 per cent as the latest version of Windows, called Windows 7, was released during the quarter.

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The vulnerable PC

December 8, 2008 · Filed Under Learning, News · Comment

According to official reports 98 percent of windows computers in India have been found to run at least one unpatched application, and nearly half contain 11 or more programs at risk from attack, according to Copenhagen-based security company Secunia. It further stated that 98.1 percent of the PCs on which its Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility was installed over the last week have one or more applications that have security updates available for downloading. Only 1.9 percent of windows systems that ran the PSI utility for the first time had no out-of-date programs.

The study done on 20,000 users also revealed that about a third of the systems ran a vulnerable version of five or fewer programs, while nearly half of the machines ran 11 or more insecure applications.

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