Microsoft announced its fourth quarter results this week. In fact its performance contributed to the fact that for the first time in the current downturn the software market (measures as vendor revenues on a rolling 4 quarter basis) declined – by 2% in Q2 2009.
I thought I’d take the opportunity to update you on the company’s direction. A picture of the development of Microsoft’s revenues by division is shown in Figure 1.
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