To grow a $32 billion company, first you have to do $32 billion in business. |
We also think that the PC market could see growth in the low single digits for fiscal 2003 compared to the low single digit declines we are expecting to see for our full-year fiscal-year with 2002, |
We are cautious about the next quarter. We want to see business PC demand pick up, and the next quarter is a tough comparable quarter because of last year's launch of Office 2000. |
We are optimistic for the outlook of PC growth in the upcoming quarters and are particularly enthused about the release of Windows 2000, |
We are planning on PC shipment growth in the low- to mid-single digits for fiscal 2003, consistent with what we told you last quarter. |
We believe, like many technology companies, that the current weakness in worldwide economic conditions is resulting in a slowdown in PC sales, corporate IT spending and consumer online services and advertising, |
We believe, like many technology companies, that the current weakness in worldwide economic conditions is resulting in a slowdown in PC sales, corporate IT spending and consumer online services and advertising. |
We continue to operate in a tough environment, |
We experienced another record year of business results despite many challenges. In particular, the Asia region rebounded nicely and our consumer business experienced a significant increase in revenue. Although we remain guarded in the near term about business PC growth rates, we look forward to the tremendous opportunity in front of us with the Windows 2000 generation of server products. |
We now believe PC shipments will not show any growth from the prior year and will show a decline for the full fiscal year 2002. |
We previously said that we thought [fiscal year 2001] PC growth would be in the 7-to-8 percent range, and it seems to come in at the middle of that range. |
We see an admittedly mixed environment, |
We solidly outperformed on revenues, expenses, and earnings per share, and we feel good about where we ended the quarter on unearned (revenue), |
We've had a strong beginning to what we expect will be a very good year with continued growth in both our commercial and consumer businesses, ... This quarter we had a very healthy commercial server and desktop business driving double digit revenue growth. |
While corporate IT spending was slow to improve this quarter, we saw strength across all of our consumer businesses, driving higher-than-expected revenue for the company. |