MSFT Quarter: Revenues Down 14 Percent, But Beat Estimates

Oct 23, 2009 at 10:29am ET by Greg Sterling

Microsoft announced quarterly revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of just over 14 percent from the same period a year ago. Adjusted revenue, which accounts for $1.5 billion in deferred Windows 7 receipts put the quarter at $14.4 billion, just 4 percent down vs. a year ago. Profits were also down. Online services (where Bing is housed) had revenues of $490 million and a $480 million loss vs revenues of $520 million and losses of $321 million a year go. The conference call is going to start in a few minutes but the company's slides highlight strong Windows (7) and Xbox demand. PC growth was [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General

Top Microsoft Execs Get A Pay Cut

Sep 30, 2009 at 8:28am ET by Greg Sterling

Appropriately top Microsoft executives, coming off  the "worst year ever" for the company, are sharing some of the pain. As PaidContent reports, the top executives at the company took a compensation hit based on the sales and revenue declines. Here are some of the numbers: CEO Steve Ballmer $1.265 million vs. $1.34 million a year ago CFO Chris Liddell: $3.5 million vs. $4.8 million COO Kevin Turner: $5.4 million vs. $8.6 million Entertainment and Devices President Robbie Bach: $6.2 million vs. $8.3 million The snark impulse is pretty strong and I'm trying not to write something v [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Eric Brill Moves To eBay,

Sep 24, 2009 at 5:02pm ET by Barry Schwartz

eBay has announced they have hired Dr. Eric Brill as their vice president of research and applied science to lead up eBay's research labs team. Prior, Dr. Brill was General Manager of adCenter Labs at Microsoft and before that, he Director and Principal Researcher and head of the Text Mining, Search and Navigation Group at Microsoft Research. Microsoft has quietly pulled his bio page but Google still has a cached version. "Search is all about predictions, highly educated guesses about what people really mean when they type in a word like Diesel or a phrase like 'red, white and blue'," [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

Gulli Leaves Ask.com For Microsoft Bing, Finally Has “Resources”

Aug 31, 2009 at 1:25pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Ten days ago, we reported that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after 4 years heading up their technology team in the European R&D center. Gulli announced his new plans are to continue in search, but switch ships and work for Microsoft Bing. Gulli said he will be "leading all the engineering development for UX and verticals in Europe," focusing on Microsoft Bing's search technology and user interface. He will be working at Microsoft's London site of STC Europe nearby Carnaby Street. What I found most interesting about his announcement post was that he, in not so many words, explained that he [...]

Filed in: Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Employees, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

BT/Yahoo Portal Now Powered By … Not Yahoo, Not Bing, Google!

Aug 27, 2009 at 2:02pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Those with BT broadband in the UK have noticed that the Yahoo/BT portal at bt.yahoo.com has a new search technology provider. You would guess that if Yahoo would replace their own search technology, it would be in exchange for Bing, in light of the recent news about the Bing & Yahoo deal. You would be wrong to think that because Google is now powering the search technology Yahoo/BT portal. Here is a screen capture of the search box that now says, "Powered by Google," taken from ConnectedInternet.co.uk, which tipped us to this: I know the Yahoo and Microsoft deal has not been s [...]

Filed in: Google: Business Issues, Google: Partnerships, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Partnerships, Yahoo: Business Issues, Yahoo: Partnerships

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