Ambitious Package to Raise Productivity (cnd Microsoft's Profit)
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Microsoft Office, software for creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations, is seeing its growth slow. Microsoft isn't pleased.
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The company's productivity gains and bundled service strategy are driving results.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- Seeking to be more competitive with Microsoft Corp...
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Amid strong quarterly earnings, Microsoft said it is seeing signs of strength in enterprise spending, particularly in software.
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Microsoft said last week that its first-quarter net income rose 11% and revenue 12% because of strong server-software demand and steady sales of PCs that run its products.
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Key investments are starting to pay off for the enterprise software operator.
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Microsoft reported quarterly sales and profit gains that surpassed Wall Streetâs expectations, and delivered an optimistic outlook.
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Microsoft in the fall will launch the latest version of its performance management product, offering it up as a key link in its ambitious DSI (Dynamic Systems Initiative) plan to reduce IT complexity by improving software and hardware manageability.
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Version 8 of Microsoft Works, the company's low-cost productivity suite, has been released and will ship this month. Works includes a word processor, spreadsheet and database applications, along with e-mail tools. The new release adds an improved calendar, PowerPoint viewer and a new stand-alone dictionary. Works 8 will retail for $49.95 USD, with a $10 rebate available to some customers. But Microsoft's academic version of Office remains a better deal for most households.
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Microsoft seems to be on track to release the next version of Windows on schedule.
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BREAKING NEWS - In early numbers from Microsoft prior to its quarterly financial results call to analysts this afternoon, the company reported revenue gains of 27% annually to $13.76 billion, and net income nicely higher by 23% annually to $4.29 billion, in what the company is calling its fastest first quarter of growth since 1999.
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Microsoft, the world's largest maker of computer software,  reports an 11% rise in  quarterly profit but says sales may disappoint in the current period.
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TechWeb - The combined revenue of Microsoft's client, business, and server and tools divisions grew by more than 20%, the company said.
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Microsoft chief provides a few more details on company's effort to build a set of services in the Internet cloud.
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Microsoft aims to bring programs and technology to underserved markets through its Unlimited Potential initiative.
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The impending launch of Microsoft's new operating system isn't generating the excitement it once might have. Maybe that's because it, well, gets the job done
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools