For those brave souls who dare delve into the murky legalspeak of Microsoft's S.E.C. filings, there was a pleasant surprise in the software giant's first quarter filings this week: clarity.
In the past, combing through a Microsoft quarterly report in search of a comprehensible revenue breakdown was as confounding as it was useless. But in an effort to achieve more transparency in its earnings information, Microsoft has overhauled its reporting structure, and the results are enlightening.
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