Filed under: Earnings reports, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), International Business Machines (IBM), Technology

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), a company in the same league as Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), and Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), reported earnings for the third quarter on Thursday after the bell. The company was able to meet the expectations of analysts. Which is a good thing, since last quarter the iconic software business issued a miss.

On an adjusted basis, Microsoft made 39 cents per share. As I said in my earnings preview, analysts were looking for that precise amount. Although Wall Street always wants to see companies go beyond expectations, I suppose we can be at least a tiny happy over this result. Microsoft is hurting, after all.

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