Microsoft has just released its last quarterly balance sheet. With a
turnover and profits on the rise, the band made a balance higher than estimates.
Revenues from tablets increased widely. However, Microsoft has not
reached the financial balance and did not specify the number of units sold.
In July, Microsoft made public thefailure of its Surface
tablets. Microsoft indicated that these products, marketed in October 2012,
had represented a turnover of $ 853 million. However, development costs,
marketing and impairment losses of 900 million led to a loss
position.
Microsoft has not stopped to this failure and introduced the second
generation of tablets, Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, in September.
The
Group has published its financial results for the quarter concluded on 31
December.
Revenues from tablets increased widely. Microsoft earned $ 893
million, or more than double the previous quarter, with sales of
these products had generated $ 400 million.
This strong growth is
encouraging. However, for these products, Microsoft spent $ 932 million and
ends, therefore, deficit of $ 39 million. Nothing worrying, but
Microsoft must achieve the balance.
On this point, Microsoft cultivates mystery. If in November, the Group stated
aim for the sale of 16 million units by end of December, it did not say if this
had been achieved nor the number of sales. Especially as french official
website, only the Surface Pro 2 128 GB is available. The others are still out of
stock.