“Microsoft’s Windows OEM Pro and non-Pro revenue both fell 13% Y/Y in FQ2,” Eric Jhonsa reports for Seeking Alpha.
“The Pro slowdown is blamed on slowing business PC sales, academic discounts, and ‘mix returning to pre-Windows XP end of support levels,'” Jhonsa reports. “The non-Pro decline is due to unit growth coming from cheaper hardware that Microsoft [for which] is providing discounted license fees.”
Jhonsa reports, “Commercial Windows volume license revenue fell 3%.”
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