Microsoft's second-quarter net profit decreased slightly from the same period last year to 6.62 billion US dollars

Beijing time on January 20 news, Microsoft today announced the second quarter of 2012 financial report, company revenue during the period 20.98 billion US dollars, an increase of 5%; net profit of 6.62 billion US dollars, net profit of 6.63 billion US dollars in the same period last year, a slight decrease year-on-year .

Microsoft's second quarter financial report main data:

-- Revenue of $20.89 billion, up 5% year-on-year;

- Operating profit was $ 7.99 billion, compared with $ 8.17 billion in the same period of last year, down 2.2% year-on-year;

-- Net profit of 6.62 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 6.63 billion U.S. dollars a year earlier, down 0.15 percent year-on-year;

- Earnings per share was $ 0.78, compared with $ 0.77 in the same period of last year, an increase of 1.3% year-on-year;

Second quarter revenue from various departments

Microsoft's corporate division: revenue of US$6.28 billion, an increase of 3% over the same period of the previous year. Excluding deferred revenue for the second quarter of 2010, it was up 7% year-on-year. After 18 months of launch, Office 2010 sold 200 million units. Sales from Exchange and SharePoint increased by 10% year-on-year, and revenue from Lync and Dynamics CRM increased by more than 30%. The department’s operating profit for the second quarter was $4.152 billion, compared to $4.087 billion in the same period of last year.

Servers and Tools: Revenue was $4.77 billion, an increase of 11% year-on-year, and $3.5 billion a year earlier. The operating profit of this sector was 1.996 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 1.711 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year. Both Windows Server and SQL Server revenue increased by more than two digits year-on-year. System Center revenue increased by 20% year-on-year, and enterprise service revenue increased by 19% year-on-year.

Windows and Windows Live: Revenue was $7.44 billion, down 6% year-on-year. Microsoft sold 525 million copies of Windows 7. The operating profit of this sector was 2.85 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 3.214 billion U.S. dollars in the same period of last year.

Online Services: Revenue of $784 million, a year-on-year increase of 10%. Bing’s share in the United States will reach 15.1%, and the Yahoo search share supported by Bing will be included, up to 27%. The department’s second-quarter operating loss was US$458 million, and its operating loss for the same period last year was US$559 million.

Entertainment and Equipment Division: Revenue of US$4.24 billion, a year-on-year increase of 15%. Xbox installed a total of 66 million units and sold 18 million Kinects. Xbox Live has 40 million members, an increase of 33% over the same period last year. The division’s second-quarter operating profit was US$528 million, and its operating profit for the same period last year was US$666 million.

The Windows division was affected by the downturn in the PC market. Affected by hard disk supply, macroeconomics, and competition, the PC market fell by 2%-4%. Business PCs increased by 2% year-on-year, and consumer PCs fell by 6%, which did not include netbook growth of 2% year-on-year.

The Windows division is the most affected by the PC market, with about 75% of Windows revenue coming from OEM purchases of the Windows operating system, 25% from business, retail Windows, and PC hardware and Windows Live online advertising.

Microsoft estimates that sales of PCs for businesses are up 2% year-on-year, and PC sales to consumers are down 6% year-over-year. In total, the entire PC market is estimated to have fallen by 2-4%, which has been affected by supply chain problems caused by the flooding in Thailand.

Performance expectations

Microsoft expects that for the fiscal year ending in June 30th, Microsoft lowered its operating expenses forecast to $285-289 billion.

Microsoft's share price fell 0.11 US dollars on the Nasdaq regular trading on Thursday, to close at 28.12 US dollars, a decrease of 0.39%. In the subsequent after-hours trading, Microsoft's share price rose 0.63 US dollars to close at 28.73 US dollars, or 2.17%. In the past 52 weeks, Microsoft's highest stock price was 29.46 US dollars, the lowest stock price was 23.65 US dollars.