Kris Kumar
07-26-2005, 01:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY05/earn_rel_q4_05.mspx' target='_blank'>http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY05/earn_rel_q4_05.mspx</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Mobile and Embedded Devices revenue growth for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005 was primarily due to strength in Windows Mobile software sales and Windows Embedded operating systems driven by increased shipments of connected mobile devices such as phone-enabled PDAs, Smartphones, and standalone PDAs. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2005, revenue for Windows Mobile software <b>increased $13 million or 43%,</b> revenue for Windows Embedded operating systems increased $7 million or 27%, and revenue for MapPoint and Windows Automotive increased $7 million or 50%. Mobile and Embedded Devices operating loss for the three months ended June 30, 2005 decreased compared with the corresponding period in fiscal year 2004 primarily due to growth in revenue and a reduction in sales and marketing expense. These improvements have been partially offset by increased salary and benefit costs for new and existing headcount."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-jul05-msft.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />The above extract from the Microsoft earnings release for fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2005, shows that the Windows Mobile software has been making slow and steady growth in terms of revenue. It is still small compared to what the other divisions or products make. And I am sure that Windows Mobile 5.0 will help close that gap in the coming months. :) In the coming months, Microsoft will be releasing a number of key updates for its products: Visual Studio 2005, which will make mobile development easy (and expensive); SQL Server 2005, which will include SQL Server Mobile Edition; Xbox 2, which will keep us busy when we are not using our Smartphones and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/default.mspx"><i>Windows Vista.</i></a> I haven't heard a lot about the features for the mobile users in the upcoming Windows OS release. Hopefully there will be tons of improvement, maybe a better (integrated) sync tool. :wink: We can expect a lot from Microsoft in the coming months.