Microsoft made a new record with Windows 7

San Francisco - his best-selling operating system Microsoft Windows 7 making record profits surge by 60 percent. The number of profit reached U.S. $ 6.6 billion was recorded as a record company.



That is revealed in financial records the period of Microsoft's fiscal second quarter, which ended December 31, 2009. The amount of total income achieved to reach U.S. $ 19.02 billion, increasing 14 percent from the same period the previous year.



Microsoft also claims Windows 7 is the operating system with the fastest sales in company history. Recorded as many as 60 million licenses of Windows 7 have been sold worldwide.



"We saw record profits and revenues, triggered huge demand for Windows 7 and the PC," said Peter Klein, Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft who quoted from the AFP, Jumat (29/1/2010).



But not all Microsoft products to reach success. Sales of Microsoft Office for example, declined 2.9 percent. Sales of Xbox and other entertainment products also fell 9.7 percent.



But Microsoft is optimistic face intense competition in the year 2010. This year, Microsoft among others, plans to release its flagship software, Microsoft Office 2010.