Microsoft profit down
Ap, undated
Microsoft Corp. shares got a bounce after the software maker posted fiscal second-quarter results that beat analysts' forecasts and offered encouraging signs about the fate of the new Windows Vista computer operating system.Vista's long-delayed launch was largely to blame for Microsoft's 28 percent drop in profits in the last three months of 2006. Earnings fell to $2.63 billion, or 26 cents per share, from $3.65 billion, or 34 cents per share, during the same period last year. Revenue rose to $12.5 billion, a 6 percent gain from $11.8 billion in the year-ago quarter. Analysts were expecting just shy of $12.1 billion.
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