CASH COWS: Sales of Office, Windows helped push Microsoft's fiscal fourth-quarter revenue up 18 percent to $15.8 billion. BOTTOM LINE: Profit rose steadily to $4.3 billion but missed Wall Street's expectations by a penny per share as Web advertising business weakened. CRYSTAL BALL: The software maker forecast double-digit sales growth in 2009, despite plans to spend hundreds of millions more than expected to perk up its search and online ad performance. |