Microsoft sales down
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MICROSOFT&#39;S fiscal 2005 sales will be unable to keep up with the gains of earlier years, even if technology spending continues to improve, the company said in a US regulatory filing last week.
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BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG  - Microsoft suffered a decisive antitrust defeat in Europe on Monday, sending its shares down 2 percent in pre-market trade.
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After a two-week streak during which the album selling periods of Christmas 2004 and New Year's Day 2005 looked stronger than their counterparts of a year ago, this week gives the appearance that the year's first sales week came up a loser, down almost 28% from the start of 2004.
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Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O on Thursday  posted higher quarterly earnings as revenue rose 12 percent,  but its shares fell after the world's largest software maker  said current quarter sales would fall below Wall Street  expectations.
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Some 80,000 computers at the Department for Work and Pensions went down during &#39;a routine software upgrade&#39; of its Microsoft machines this week.
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In Microsoft&#39;s latest SEC filing again, Redmond warns that next year won&#39;t see the handsome growth in PC sales that it has seen over the past twelve months.
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Concern about the US housing market returns as a key survey shows sales have fallen to a near five-year low.
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Stocks were set to open slightly lower  on Monday as Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O begins to trade  ex-dividend, weakening technology shares and offsetting a  welcome drop in crude prices.
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Drugstores reported unusually weak  December sales on Thursday, weighed down by a slow flu season,  lower-priced generic drugs and sluggish sales of seasonal  items.
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TechWeb - Lagging Salesforce and others in the hosted CRM market, Microsoft will try to win customers with lower pricing.
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Sun's services business did well, but sales of servers and storage wares went down.
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U.S. stock futures were lower on  Friday, indicating a weak market open, as climbing oil prices  and a disappointing revenue outlook from software powerhouse  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O weighed on Wall Street.
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Stocks fell on the year's final session on Monday as traders sold some of the market's best performers, including Microsoft Corp  and Exxon Mobil Corp , to book profits before the close of 2007.
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General Motors Corp.  and Ford Motor Co.  on Tuesday said U.S. sales declined in February as they pulled back on discounted sales to daily rental companies.
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Microsoft's Windows platform is losing traction as a target for application developers in North America.
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Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday that US sales fell 4.3 percent in November as car sales continued to decline and truck sales edged lower despite the continued popularity of its F-Series truck.
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AFP/File - Microsoft on Tuesday began US sales of a scaled-down Xbox 360 model billed by some analysts as a doomed bid to unseat Nintendo's Wii console as ruler of the casual video game market.