Microsoft Polska announce surge in sales to businesses

Despite the economic downturn, software producer Microsoft Polska has observed a 27% increase in its revenues during the last financial year, with the value of sales exceeding $140 million. This is the first time since it began operating that the company has announced its sales results, but stopped short on giving details on its overall financial results. The concern attributes its sales growth largely to the introduction of its new Windows XP system, as well as the popularity of new servers from the NET Enterprise Servers group. "The company's revenues are mainly generated through sales to firms and institutions; the consumer market, which is most dominated by piracy, only constitutes about 6% of our business," said Tomasz Bochenek, general director of Microsoft Polska. For the last three years Poland has been Microsoft's largest market in Central and Eastern Europe. The company predicts that this year PC sales will increase by 4% in terms of desk-top products. (Puls Biznesu, p.8; Rzeczpospolita, p. B3; Zycie, p. 8) M.T.K.