{"id":747229,"date":"2013-04-18T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=448203"},"modified":"2013-04-18T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:06:11","slug":"microsofts-q3-profit-climbs-as-pc-market-tumbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747229","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Q3 profit climbs as PC market tumbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/microsoft-earnings-results-q3-2013-448203\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/microsoft-ces-booth.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Q3 earnings: Microsoft&#039;s profit climbs as PC market tumbles\" title=\"Microsoft\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Expectations were high ahead of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft's<\/a>\u00a0fiscal third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/11\/pc-sales-decline-analysis-idc-429586\/\">The PC industry saw a devastating decline in the March quarter<\/a> but while its vendor partners took a big hit thanks to lackluster <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-8\">Windows 8<\/a> demand, industry watchers still saw Microsoft's profit climbing 13.3% thanks to strong software sales. According to a Thomson Reuters poll of Wall Street analysts, Microsoft was expected to report earnings of $0.68 pre share, or $5.78 billion, on $20.51 billion in revenue. The numbers are now in and Microsoft bucked the PC sales trend while handily beat estimates, posting a profit of $0.72 per share, or $7.61 billion, on $20.5 billion in sales.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/microsoft-earnings-results-q3-2013-448203\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Vq3rDAlh5pE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations were high ahead of Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0fiscal third-quarter earnings report on Thursday. The PC industry saw a devastating decline in the March quarter but while its vendor partners took a big hit thanks to lackluster Windows 8 demand, industry watchers still saw Microsoft&#8217;s profit climbing 13.3% thanks to strong software sales. According to a Thomson Reuters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38o5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}