Microsoft offsets tanking PC sales with Windows 8 upgrades, Surface sales

Despite PC sales recently experiencing their steepest decline ever in a single quarter, Microsoft managed to increase overall revenues from its Windows division. The company reported Windows revenue of $5.7 billion for the first three months of 2013, up 24% from the $4.633 billion it reported in the same time period from last year. The Windows division is still extremely important to Microsoft and as a whole generated 27% of the company’s total revenue and 45% of its profits. The question remains, however: How did Windows do so well when the PC industry tumbled to all-time lows? As noted by The Guardian, Microsoft’s promotional $15 Windows 8 upgrade offer ran through to December, at which time the company could claim



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