{"id":747427,"date":"2013-04-19T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=450459"},"modified":"2013-04-19T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T20:35:04","slug":"microsoft-offsets-tanking-pc-sales-with-windows-8-upgrades-surface-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747427","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft offsets tanking PC sales with Windows 8 upgrades, Surface sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/19\/microsoft-windows-revenues-surface-sales-450459\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-microsoft-surface-rt-4.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Surface sales and Windows 8 upgrades helped Microsoft increase revenues\" title=\"Microsoft\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Despite PC sales recently experiencing their <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/10\/windows-8-pc-shipments-analysis-429262\/\">steepest decline ever in a single quarter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> managed to increase overall revenues from its <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows\">Windows<\/a> division. The company <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/18\/microsoft-earnings-results-q3-2013-448203\/\">reported Windows revenue of $5.7 billion<\/a> for the first three months of 2013, up 24% from the $4.633 billion it reported in the same time period from last year. The Windows division is still extremely important to Microsoft and as a whole generated 27% of the company's total revenue and 45% of its profits. The question remains, however: How did Windows do so well when the PC industry tumbled to all-time lows? <br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/19\/microsoft-windows-revenues-surface-sales-450459\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/wC4p8YffVxk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite PC sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter, Microsoft managed to increase overall revenues from its Windows division. The company reported Windows revenue of $5.7 billion for the first three months of 2013, up 24% from the $4.633 billion it reported in the same time period from last year. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"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-747427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-38rh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747427","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\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}