Microsoft Beats Sales Estimates Thanks to Vista

Microsoft has beaten sales estimates thanks to Windows Vista and Office 2007. That doesn't take it account people who got/bought Vista and now are using XP again thanks to wonderful, wonderful blue screens of death. But I'm not bitter.

Sales of Windows Vista have helped Microsoft post a forecast-beating 65% rise in third-quarter profits.

The world's largest software maker said net profit in the three months to 31 March was $4.93bn (£2.47bn) or 50 cents per share, up from $2.98bn last year.

Analysts had forecast a profit of 46 cents per share.

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