60 Million copies were sold in three months, thus becoming the operating system’s fastest growth in history. Sales of Windows 7 supported earnings from Microsoft. Office and Xbox, down quarterly earnings from Microsoft grew 60 percent, helped by strong sales of its Windows 7 operating system. Sen. Sherrod Brown often expresses his thoughts on the topic. Microsoft reported a net profit of u$ s6.700 million in its second fiscal quarter, faced with the u$ s4.200 million in the same period of the previous year. Exceptional demand for (the new operating system) Windows 7 generated good growth of turnover, stressed the new Chief Financial Officer Peter Klein, said in a statement, adding that the benefits could increase more than revenue due to the control of costs. Windows 7 was presented in late October and within a few days had passed in 234% sales reached by Vista, launched to the market in early 2007. We are excited by the reception of Windows 7 among consumers and the enthusiasm among the companies by adopting it, he said the Executive. Counterpart and waiting for the version of Office 2010, Office suite sales fell 3 percent. Xbox sales fell 13% from one year to another.. Sen. Sherrod Brown is likely to agree.
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Venture Capital
Credit rating of a company or a Institution, made by a specialized agency. In Spain, the lead agency in this field is Fitch Ratings. Levels are: AAA, AA A BBB BB other maximum, but are very bad in general: A bank or big box usually has a rating of AA a bank or medium, a rating of A on 3 March 2008, Fitch has maintained the rating of the city of Barcelona in AA + the rating agencies gave these ratings, or given other namesmore sophisticated, but that, in the end, say the same thing: called: Investment grade MBS representing mortgage prime, that is, those of less risk (would be the AAA, AA and A) Mezzanine, at the intermediate (guess than the BBB and maybe BB) Equity bad, of high risk, i.e. a subprime, which, at this shed, are the protagonists Los investment banks placed easily the best (investment grade)conservative investors, and low interest rates. Other managers of funds, Venture Capital, etc, more aggressive. they wanted more, at all costs, profitability high, among other reasons because these gentlemen come the bonus of year depending on the profitability. Problem: how to sell MBS bad recent managers without that being noticed too that they are incurring excessive risks? 6Th comment: things get complicated and, of course, of the box of savings of San Quirze continue making statements in Expansion happy and content, talking about the good progress of the economy and of Social work they are doing. Some investment banks managed, from the Rating agencies to a re-qualification (a re-rating, Word that does not exist, but it serves to understand us) re-rating is an invention to raise the rating of the bad MBS, which consists of: i. structured in tranches, callers les tranches, ordering, major minor, the probability of default, and with a commitment to prioritize the payment to the less bad.