Microsoft reports finances in five business segments.

Client includes desktop OSs.

Business includes Office, Exchange, Dynamics, and other business software and online services.

Server and Tools includes server platform software, developer tools, and consulting and support services.

Entertainment and Devices includes Xbox, consumer hardware and software, and mobile and embedded hardware and software.

Online includes consumer online services, such as Live Search, Windows Live, and MSN; and Microsoft's platforms for online advertisers and publishers.

Other includes income and expenses, such as legal charges, human resources expenditures, and companywide marketing efforts that cannot be attributed to any one business segment.

This chart shows each business segment's estimated and actual revenues in FY'08 (which ended June 30, 2008), operating income or loss in FY'08, and estimated revenue for FY'09 as expressed at the 2008 Financial Analyst Meeting (FAM). Microsoft does not estimate operating income or loss for each business unit.

Note that the FY'08 revenue estimates have changed slightly since last year, due to changes in how Microsoft attributes revenue to each segment. This chart uses the FY'08 revenue figures reported in Microsoft's Q4'08 earnings report, combined with the percentage growth estimates given a year earlier at the 2007 FAM.

All amounts are in millions of U.S. dollars.

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