Thursday, April 26, 2007

Microsoft Profit Forecast May Trail Estimates on Windows Sales, Xbox Costs

(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software company, today may give a profit forecast for the coming fiscal year that misses analysts' estimates because of lower- than-expected Windows sales and higher Xbox costs.

``The best-case scenario is that Microsoft will be in line with estimates and there's a risk that they'll be low,'' said Brendan Barnicle, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities in Portland, Oregon.


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