MSFT earnings - what to expect?

[T Bhat]

For FY11 which ended in June, Microsoft posted some impressive numbers. Overall, MS posted 27 billion in operating income and earnings of 2.69/share. Through FY11, MS bought back shares and the total number of outstanding shares declined from 8.9 billion to 8.59 billion.

For Q1 FY12, analysts are expecting 68 cents/share earnings. For the year, the analysts are expecting 2.85/share which should provide support to the share price.

The interesting points to notice will be:

1. Growth/slow down in windows business - impact of iPad
2. Growth in other businesses (server, office)
3. Online business trend
4. Share count

[gopalbhat]

Is there a easy way to know the revenue of Cloud Computing.
Infrastructure, Platform (and may be software) as service

[T Bhat]

Doesnt look like it will be broken out but it may come out in the conference call if the numbers are good.