Programming Windows: Success (Premium)
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Windows 7 couldn’t have arrived at a better time for Microsoft: 2009 was a terrible year for the PC industry and, thanks to its financial reliance on the Windows business, it was a down year for Microsoft too.
One day after announcing that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 had reached the RTM (release to manufacturing) milestone in July 2009, Microsoft also announced its quarterly earnings, which sunk 17 percent year-over-year (YOY) because of “weakness in the global PC and server markets.” Even its annual earnings—Microsoft’s fiscal year ran from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009—were down, in this case by 3 percent.
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