Microsoft’s Q3 financial results were officially reported yesterday. And as always, to mark the occasion, bloggers put on their analyst/numerologist hats and go by the numbers. Bloggers share the official profit and loss statements, adding a few statements of their own: Observations, opinions, and predictions of Microsoft’s future.

In IT Blogwatch, bloggers see both sides of Microsoft’s coin.

Today’s humble blogwatcher is .

Some things go better-than-expected for James Niccolai:

Microsoft has reported better-than-expected financial results for the quarter just ended, helped by strong sales of cloud services like Office 365 and Azure.
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[Results] were hurt by the weak PC market, however, with sales of Microsoft’s Windows and Office software both declining.  MORE

Matt Krantz compares Google to Microsoft:

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