Chief
Financial Officer Peter Klein told analysts that for the coming year, "We
expect Windows revenue to be roughly in line with the PC market" which it
said was flat in the last quarter and is expected to continue that way in the
three months through September.
Thursday's
loss was the first for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft since the company went
public in March 1986. There is $6.2 billion charge which is non-cash
adjustment, that companies do when the value of their assets decline. Companies
have to review their assets once a year, and the just-ended quarter is
Microsoft's final one for fiscal 2012.
Google continue to put stress on them whereby Google's search engine have been a major tool for selling ads, has remained strong, while
Microsoft's Bing search engine saw its market share drop slightly to 26
percent, from 27 percent a year ago. That includes searches through Yahoo Inc.,
which has been using Microsoft's search technology for nearly two years.
AQuantive
was Microsoft's most expensive purchase at the time, and was supposed to help
it mount a more serious challenge to Google in online ads. But the online ad
division continued to post losses — totaling more than $9 billion since the
purchase, not including the charge. By contrast, Google has widened its lead,
thanks in part to its purchase of DoubleClick for $3.2 billion about eight
months after the aQuantive deal.