“Microsoft’s fourth quarter earnings and sales missed expectations by a wide margin as the PC market slowdown and a writedown of Surface RT inventory painted a bleak picture,” Larry Dignan reports for ZDNet.
“The company reported fourth quarter earnings of $4.97 billion, or 59 cents a share, on revenue of $19.9 billion,” Dignan reports. “The results include a $900 million inventory writedown for Surface RT that amounts to 7 cents a share.”
Dignan reports, “Wall Street was expecting Microsoft to report fourth quarter earnings of 75 cents a share on revenue of $20.73 billion… The quarter for Microsoft reflects a tale of two companies—an enterprise side that’s killing it and a Windows part that’s struggling to regain its footing as tablets cannibalize PCs.”
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