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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Email Print Reprints Microsoft Departing Microsoft exec sees end of PC era Microsoft profit seen higher, iPad looms Windows 7 sales top 240 million in first year Microsoft launches "cloud" version of Office HP tablet sports Windows 7 Read U.S. slips to historic low in global corruption index 11:53am EDT UK growth doubles forecast 12:16pm EDT Sony rally shortlived as speculation dismissed | 11:32am EDT Factbox: Aziz latest in line of death sentences in Iraq 7:38am EDT Analysis: Asia's economic history foretells Chinese slowdown 25 Oct 2010 Discussed 61 Special Report: The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead 55 Special report: Conservative donors let Christine O’Donnell sink 48 Republicans poised to win House and gain in Senate Watched Russian spy poses for Maxim Tue, Oct 19 2010 Mexico's 20-yr old police chief Thu, Oct 21 2010 Robot close to workplace reality Mon, Oct 25 2010 Report Title Price ValuEngine Detailed Valuation Report for HPQ Provider: ValuEngine, Inc. $25.0 Buy ValuEngine Industry Report for COMPUTER MFRS Provider: ValuEngine, Inc. $49.0 Buy Market Edge Equity Research Report Provider: Market Edge $10.0 Buy Trading Report for (HPQ). 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Related News Departing Microsoft visionary Ray Ozzie sees "post-PC" world 7:29am EDT Departing Microsoft visionary sees 'post-PC' world Mon, Oct 25 2010 Microsoft Windows 7 sales top 240 mln in 1st year Thu, Oct 21 2010 Microsoft launches "cloud" version of Office Tue, Oct 19 2010 Bill Gates' successor at Microsoft to retire Mon, Oct 18 2010 Related Topics Technology » Media » iPad » Stocks Crowds walk past the Halo Reach display at the Los Angeles Convention Center Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, California June 15, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Gus Ruelas By Bill Rigby SEATTLE | Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:15pm EDT SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is expected to report a big jump in earnings on Thursday, helped by the newest versions of its lucrative Office software and the blockbuster Halo game; but short- and long-term issues with its core Windows franchise nag at investors. The world's largest software company has sold a record-breaking 240 million Windows 7 operating system licenses in the year since launch. But lower-than-expected personal computer sales are restricting growth, and some worry that its flagship product is under threat from Apple Inc's iPad and a longer-term shift to mobile computing. "The supply-chain vendors and the hardware side are seeing continued weakness in the PC business," said Sid Parakh, an analyst at brokerage firm McAdams Wright Ragen. "What everyone is still not clear about is how much of it is driven by real consumer softness and how much of it is driven by the iPad." PC shipments -- which generally dictate sales of Windows and the health of the overall tech sector -- rose only 11 percent to 89.7 million units in the July-September period, according to industry tracker IDC, below its forecast of 13.5 percent. For the current quarter, IDC expects only 7.4 percent growth. Business spending is still relatively strong, research firms say, but consumers are holding off on PC purchases, or may be buying iPads instead, although it is too early to tell if Apple's new device is really eating away at the low end of the PC market. Whether the threat is real or not, Microsoft has been roundly criticized for being slow to react, as Apple's iPad heads toward 8 million sales since its launch in April. Only one Windows-powered tablet, made by Hewlett-Packard Co, has been launched since then, and the best iPad competitors are expected on the market only next year. Several analysts have downgraded Microsoft recently, most notably from Goldman Sachs in October, citing a lack of focus on the burgeoning consumer electronics sector. Microsoft shares are down 16 percent this year, compared to a 10 percent rise in the Nasdaq composite index. The stock is trading around 2002 levels, at a historically low price-to-earnings ratio. UP FROM LAST YEAR On the upside, Microsoft is expected to report a sharply higher profit this quarter than a year ago, when the world was just emerging from the grip of a severe downturn. The bottom line is likely to show a boost from the new Office 2010, the popular suite of word processing, e-mail and presentation programs, which was launched in May, and the new Halo: Reach video game, which racked up more than $200 million in sales on its first day alone in September. Wall Street is expecting earnings of 55 cents per share, up from 40 cents a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S data. Analysts expect sales of $15.8 billion, up 22 pct from $12.92 billion a year ago. For the current quarter, there is some optimism that its new phone software, which will run handsets hitting U.S. stores next month, will claw the company back into the mobile market, while its new motion-sensing Kinect device, to be launched next week, will boost Xbox sales. 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