Microsoft reports $4.5b in profit, a record $16.04b in revenue

This time last year, almost to the day, Microsoft saw its first annual sales decline in history. Things are looking significantly better now, with the company reporting a record $16.04 billion in revenue, a 22 percent year-over-year increase for its Q4 revenue ending June 30th. In reality, revenue is up across all divisions, with Windows and Windows Live seeing the largest uptick (43.5 percent to $4.55 billion) followed by Entertainment and Devices (27.3 percent to $1.6 billion). Operating income, even so, paints an extra picture of E&D, showing a $172 million loss for this quarter (compared to $141 loss in Q4 last year), but looking over your entire fiscal year, the home of Xbox and Zune this year did $679 million in operating income — a sizable jump to the $108 million from 2009. The total operating income for the company is $5.93 billion this quarter (net income $4.52 billion), a 49 percent increase over last Q4, and $20.36 billion for the year (18 percent compared with fiscal 2009).

We know you\’re inquisitive about comparisons, so we\’ll just go ahead and break it down for ya: the crowd in Redmond remains beating Apple in both revenue ($16.04 billion vs. $15.7 billion) and profit ($4.52 billion vs. $3.25), but that margin feels smaller than it used to. Enough to keep the rumored pressure off Ballmer? Frankly, we don\’t even think biplanes could knock the guy off the tip of a tower, but Windows Phone 7 has lots to prove, and fast. Microsoft is hosting a webcast of its report later today — usually much ado about nothing, as far as we\’re concerned, but we\’ll listen in and let ya know if anything interesting pops up.

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