Microsoft said consumers were buying your Office applications on a "tremendous rate" technology giant Microsoft a sharp jump in quarterly reported profits, thanks to strong sales of your Office applications, and despite a decline in the sales of the Windows operating system.NET was income in the three months to the end of March $5. 23bn (£ 3. 14bn), an increase of 31% to $4 the company a year ago. Sales increased by 13% to $16. 43bn.
The company said that it made the "strong results despite a mixed environment with PC".
Windows 7 revenues fell by 4%.
The drop reflected a jump in the wider market for PCs.
Beating went analysts expectations on total sales, despite shares to Microsoft in the post-trading slightly, reflecting concerns core Windows sales.
"The concern is markets are disturbed," Colin Gillis BGC in said financial.
"But it is also overblown if you factor in that Windows 7 is the fastest-selling operating system in history."
Sales in all other areas of the company picked up on a year earlier.
The turnover of the company's entertainment and devices division grew by 60%, fueled by sales of Xbox consoles and Kinect controllers.
"Consumers are Office 2010, Xbox and Kinect buy at huge prices and companies of all sizes have acquired Microsoft platforms and applications," said Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein.
The company also said that it strong use of its cloud computing services, which saw allow data on remote servers, U.S. are stored in large companies.
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