UPDATED 16:22 PM EST, January 24, 2013
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft says its fourth-quarter earnings slipped 4 percent, despite a lift from its latest version of Windows.
The results announced Thursday are the first to include Windows 8. The program is a dramatic overhaul of the Microsoft Corp. operating system that powers most PCs. Windows 8 came out Oct. 26 with slightly more than two months left in Microsoft's fiscal second quarter.
Although the Windows 8 sales haven't been as impressive as investors hoped, revenue in Microsoft's Windows division climbed 24 percent from the previous year.
