The main factors that Microsoft's stock price plummeted: XP End and Win10 Free

Computer Store News: Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings report. Despite the significant results this quarter, Microsoft’s share price today has experienced a significant decline, with market value evaporating by more than 4% in the past few hours.

According to yesterday's financial results, Microsoft's various businesses have grown. Although its hardware business is relatively weak, it has seen significant growth this quarter, and some transition products such as Office have shown strong growth momentum and continued growth. Microsoft's revenue for the quarter was high, and operating income declined slightly, but rough calculations showed higher than ever.

So why is the stock price going down? The reason is simple: Windows. The sharp drop in Windows revenue this quarter is largely due to the end of the XP system.

There is also a slowdown in the PC market in recent years, new low-cost license SKUs, and less successful Windows 8.

But these issues are foreseeable. There is also a major factor, Windows 10 will be a free operating system, for almost all users, although we do not understand the business plan, but investors have become more and more panic.

Despite having many billions of dollars in business, Microsoft is still seen as the creator of Windows, and Microsoft has to prove to everyone that it can get out of the Windows licensing model to achieve market success. However, this will definitely make the market nervous in the short term.