Microsoft sales down - by Abinyah Walker

Microsoft suffers its first sales lost as reported by BBC World Thursday April 23, 2009. Sales fell 6% in the first three months of 2009, the first drop in the companies 23 year history. With profits dropping 32% it is easy to blames the economic slowdown with falling sales in personal computers world wide. However this could also be a symptom of the cataclysmic failure of Windows Vista and the sales stop of Windows XP. Microsoft is now betting the bank on Windows 7 due out later this year, early 2010. "The bad thing is demand and consumer preference seems to have affected their top line." says Kim Caughey senior analyst at Fort Pitt Capital, refering to computers potential switch to rival Apple and the continuing market capitalization of alternative operating systems like Linux.