The computer giant has felt the effects of the crisis. Microsoft experienced a 17% drop in turnover during the second quarter of 2009, which represented a business of 13.1 billion dollars. The surplus also fell by 29% compared to the same period of the previous year, and stood at 3.05 billion dollars.
According to Microsoft 's chief bc data mexico financial officer , Chris Liddell, "business has been negatively impacted by the weakness in the global PC and server market." However, the company's figures have been worse than expected. For the 2008/2009 financial year, sales will fall by 3% to $58.4 billion; profits will fall by 18% to €14.57 billion.
Bill Gates Deletes Facebook Account
Perhaps motivated by these figures, Bill Gates has decided to close his Facebook account and dedicate more time to his creature, although he is now busy with philanthropic tasks at his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. According to Spiegel , the founder of Microsoft has made the decision to close his account because keeping his profile up to date was becoming a stressful task. Managing 10,000 friend requests can be a perfect excuse to procrastinate, especially if, as Bill Gates claims to do, you want to find out if you really know all the people who request friendship before accepting them.