Windows and Office have the software leader Microsoft brings another record quarter. Sales and profit rose in double digits.
The old draft horses from Microsoft, Windows and Office have purged the U.S. group at the start of its fiscal year billions into the coffers. In addition to the operating system, Windows 7 is also the office suite Office 2010 proved to be a bestseller.
Group sales climbed in the end of September closed the first quarter of fiscal year 2010/11 by 25 percent to a record 16.2 billion U.S. dollars (11.6 billion euros). The profit jumped high in comparison to the same period by 51 percent to 5.4 billion U.S. dollars.
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