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As the economic fourth quarter of Microsoft ended in the month of June, the company announced a rise in its revenue. From the previous year of $4.52 billion or $0.51 per share, it blew to 30% to $5.87 billion or $0.69 per share as recorded by Microsoft.

The net income of Microsoft topped the estimations of the analysts of Wall Street. They only anticipated $0.58 per share and $17.25 billion in revenue. This is based on the survey by Thomson Reuters.

Microsoft reported that the net income went by 8.5%, from $16 billion to $17.37 billion.

On the other hand, a fall down of one percent to $4.74 billion was recorded in the sales of units of the software operating systems of Windows. As for the second successive quarter, the operating systems for computer units of Windows were constantly down. This is due to the transfer of customers to tablets from personal computers.

The executives of Microsoft are expecting that the decline of Windows will still continues because the decreasing sales in PC. According to a firm of market research, IDC, a 2.6% of increase worldwide is anticipated as the sales of PC are nearly attached to the fortune of the company.

In the regular trading, the stock exchange of Microsoft closed at $27.10 while its shares fell down with a lesser amount of percentage to $26.99.

The chief financial officer of Microsoft, Peter Klein said during an interview that they felt it was really a stable financial year for the company.

The newest and major version of Microsoft’s operating system Windows 8 has opened this week and has just made one the biggest changes in the platform history.

At a Microsoft’s conference, they have spent more than two hours to discuss in detail the next OS. The software is yet to be released and used by consumers next year. However, a clearer picture of Microsoft’s position to the industry, shifting their purchases from personal desktops to handy notebooks, and now, they’re open to more portable devices like smartphones and tablets.

In other words, Microsoft’s ace in broadening their landscape is Windows 8. It is a powerful product which works on almost all machines with a convenient interface which adapts along the way. With that vision, we can differentiate Microsoft’s purpose to that of Apple’s. Apple has created a different OS for their portable, and kept a different one for their Intel-based devices.

But then, the separation affected consumer’s views on operating systems, the frequency of updates, and introducing of features after years or months of purchase. If OS’ are separated, the maker can iterate quickly, and they could provide major releases every year while still continuing to offer updates on Mac OS X.

For Microsoft, they have been releasing new versions of Windows every few years. But users are more used to having frequent service updates. Apple and Android are proofs of providing users frequent software updates.