Server and Tools gives Microsoft a boost
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Office and Windows, Microsoft's hallmark programs for personal computers, get a lot of the public attention. But another part of the company has quietly begun to rival and, in some ways, exceed the performance of both.
The company's Server and Tools division, which makes software for computer servers and tools for software programmers, posted a revenue increase of nearly 16 percent in Microsoft's recently completed fiscal year.The division has benefited in part from an expanding market for computer servers. Reporting its annual results last week, Microsoft said shipments of Windows-based servers increased at a rate comparable to the 13 percent to 14 percent annual increase in server shipments industrywide.