Microsoft's Ent. and Devices Devision sees almost double profits

The results aren't shabby at all, profits rise from $159 million in last year's Q1 to $312 million this year. However revenue for the quarter remained flat, at $1.89 billion dollars.

The corporation as a whole suffered declines, as the market becomes tighter and its main rival Google ramps up the heat. More mobile phone companies are now jumping on the Android bandwagon, Google's mobile operating system it provides free of charge for anyone to use.

HTC, Microsoft's main carrier of the windows mobile operating system is said to be moving 50% percent of their cellphones from Microsoft's Windows to Google's Android. The two companies are in an all out war for online advertising dollars, a market Google dominates overwhelmingly, owning over 66% of market share.

Competition is indeed stiff, and sales were down 14% to $12.2 billion and income down 18% to $3.57 billion. Let's hope the Xbox and Zune division remains a bright spot in the company.

See the full break down here.

10/24/09 Ernice Gilbert

Microsoft has no plans to introduce a Blu-Ray drive for the Xbox 360

This would not be an issue if company CEO Steve Ballmer hadn't seemingly confirmed that blu-ray accessories would come to the Xbox 360. But now it is and Larry Hyrb AKA Major Nelson posted on his blog that MS has "no plans" to introduce a Blu-ray add-on for the Xbox 360.

"During an interview yesterday, Steve Ballmer was asked about Blu-ray and the Xbox 360. I wanted to clear something up. Steve was referring to Blu-ray accessories for PC. As we have said in the past, we have no plans to intoduce a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360," Major Nelson said on his blog.

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10/23/09 Ernice Gilbert