ブレーキs on Microsoft sales rise

By This Is Money
Updated: 09:12 BST, 28 January 2005

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SOFTWARE 巨大（な） Microsoft's first 利益（をあげる）s from Xbox failed to obscure the fact that its 全体にわたる second-４半期/4分の1 sales growth slowed to 6.5% from 19% the previous year.

But that did 許す Microsoft to tout 記録，記録的な／記録する three-月毎の 歳入 of $10.8bn (£5.7bn), a 7% rise on 2004. The company also 発表するd 記録，記録的な／記録する 利益（をあげる）s of $3.46bn, or 32 cents a 株, against 分析家s' 期待s of 29 cents.

That was おもに 予定 to Microsoft having much lower costs 関係のある to its staff 在庫／株 選択 programme. The sales growth 失望s were most evident in Microsoft's （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） 労働者 分割, which 含むs the Office 生産性 控訴 and in its 商売／仕事 解答s 商売／仕事, which caters to small 商売／仕事.

The best news （機の）カム from the Home and Entertainment 部隊, which encompasses Xbox. It 地位，任命するd an $84m 利益（をあげる） thanks 大部分は to its Halo 2 game which has sold 6.4m copies. An 告示 on a new console may be made in May, it said.