<img style="float: right" src="http://www.iexbeta.com/images/news/logos/iexMicrosoft.png">Profiting from continued strength in the PC market, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday defied earnings misses by other software vendors and reported a 15 percent increase in revenue for the final quarter of its 2004 fiscal year.

The world's largest software vendor reported net income of $2.69 billion on revenue of $9.29 billion for the fourth quarter of its 2004 fiscal year, ended June 30. That compared to net income of $1.48 billion on revenue of $8.07 billion in the year-earlier period, the company said in a statement.

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News source: InfoWorld

A 15% rise isn't to bad for a company complainig about software piracy.

Yeah, I heard about that on the news. Guess things aren't as tough over there as were lead to believe previously.

huh and they are worried about a few illegal copies of xp

hehe, reminds me of the MPAA types, screaming billions in losses to piracy yet hitting all time highs every new film's revenues...