Chris Liddell Quotes (18 Quotes)

We have decided to add investments in a number of areas, and they do add up. Investment today will drive future success.

We are now accelerating our investments in the business to drive future growth, which is reflected in our financial guidance. We believe next fiscal year will deliver even stronger double-digit (percentage) revenue growth than this year.

A lot of that inherent growth in Australia, and strength in the economy, has helped keep those housing volumes up, but we would say by the end of this year or the beginning of next year, all other things being equal, for it to come off slightly.

We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes major releases like Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Office 12 and Windows Vista.

We have decided to aggressively invest next year in a number of areas, and (costs) do add up.

We are not expecting the trend to significantly weaken from that, but expect that moderating number to be more like what we expect for next year.

We feel good about the quarter ahead and good about the year ahead,

Our search advertising revenue has not been as strong as we'd like,

Frank brings to Microsoft great talent and skills both in finance and business leadership. His work in creating world-class Finance organizations and leadership in the finance community will build upon Microsoft's existing Finance talent and functional excellence.

We're probably looking at a slightly more conservative PC picture next year overall.

Revenue growth of 29 in the business group that have had recent product launches demonstrates our ability to choose the right places to focus our innovation efforts and make investments.

The growth in our core businesses was healthy during the quarter driven by strength in Server and Tools, and the success of our Windows Client products in a robust PC market.

We are moving forward on Ad Center and taking control of our own destiny.

confidence about the future performance of the company.

This will be the first time since calendar year 1995 that we have had simultaneous launches of these two flagship products and we will make a considerable marketing and sales investment for these launches and, to a lesser extent, for the launch of Exchange 12.

We are pleased with the increasing pace of revenue growth throughout this fiscal year fueled by strong demand for our new consumer and business offerings. We are now accelerating our investments in the business to drive future growth, which is reflected in our financial guidance. We believe next fiscal year will deliver even stronger double-digit revenue growth than this year.

We've had a good start to an important year for the company.

As we moves closer to the launch on Office 12 we expect corporate customers to increasingly prefer annuity licensing programs when they evaluate purchases.