first quarter

Microsoft met analysts' expectations in its fiscal first-quarter, delivering $0.68 per share, despite flat PC sales, according to financial results reported by the company on Thursday.

ZDNet Blogs: "In the midst of all the Windows 7 hoopla last week, Microsoft released its first quarter fiscal 2010 10-Q.

In that document was mention of a number of the pending lawsuits against the company that are due to see some action during Microsoft's fiscal 2010."

Microsoft disclosed its fiscal first-quarter results, reporting an 18 percent decrease in net income compared with 1Q 2008.

Advanced Micro Devices is preparing to launch its "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6000-series processor for servers during the first quarter of 2010, an AMD executive said Monday.

Help Net Security: "Today the McAfee first quarter threat report revealed that cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses since January, a 50 percent increase since 2008."
Again, no mention of vulnerable platforms, even though only Windows vulnerabilities are named-- ed.

Microsoft yesterday reported a nine percent increase in overall revenue for its first quarter of fiscal-year 2009, which ended on Sept. 30, 2008.

According to a recent study from security and anti-virus specialist Sophos, servers in the U.S. and China host the lion's share of malware-infected Web sites.

Meanwhile, Web attacks surged to an all-time high in the first quarter of this year, according to Sophos -- with no sign of dropping off any time soon.

Although overall IT budgets are expected to grow in 2008, about a fourth of CIOs in the United States reported decreases in their budgets in the first quarter of this year, according to a survey released by Gartner this month.