Microsoft said that Xbox 360, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0, which were released in Q4 2005 contributed more than $1.0 billion in revenue growth to the bottom line of the quarter result.Source: TG Daily.
Especially the Xbox business has taken off for Microsoft with revenues of the Entertainment and Devices division climbing from $1.7 billion in Q4 2005 to $3.0 billion in Q4 2006. However, Microsoft was not able to reduce the loss of this segment, which was $286 million in Q4 2005 and $289 million in Q4 2006.
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Posted on Monday, January 29 2007 @ 3:21 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck