Microsoft fails to ease Vista fears
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| This uncertainty over when Microsoft and the rest of hi-tech would
| benefit from the surge in revenue growth that typically accompanies a
| major Windows upgrade led Microsoft's shares to close down 2 percent
| at $23.87 on the Nasdaq on Thursday.
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| Windows Vista, already five years in the making, has been postponed
| by Microsoft several times. Quality assurance delays have put off
| the consumer version of Windows until early 2007 -- after the crucial
| holiday shopping season.
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| Microsoft forecast another year of losses at its mobile phone, games
| and devices business before turning a profit in the business year
| ending June 30, 2008.
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| Executives at the meeting said investments for the company's new "Zune"
| media player and another year of losses at its Xbox game unit would
| continue to weigh on the entertainment and devices unit's earnings
| this year. The division posted a loss last year.
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| "Fiscal 07 will be a loss. We think that turns to profit in 08," said
| Robbie Bach, president of the division.
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