Microsoft Announces Record 4th-Quarter Revenue, Over $16 Billion

Next up in the parade of quarterly earnings is Microsoft, reporting both its quarterly and fiscal yearly revenue, which ended on June 30th. And it's good news for the giant, despite all that talk about Apple passing them in market cap. Microsoft showed a quarterly revenue of $16.04 billion (up 22% from the year-ago quarter) and a yearly revenue $62.48 billion (up 7%), both of which are records.

Microsoft sold a whopping 175 million Windows 7 licenses to date, although interestingly, 7% more...