Microsoft Announces Quarterly Earnings Release Date and Upcoming Event for the Financial Community

Events with Microsoft leadership slated for January

Microsoft Corp. will release fiscal year 2008 second quarter financial results after the close of the market on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be made available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time on the Microsoft Investor Relations Web site.

The company will also host the following event for the financial community:

Investor Relations Financial Analyst Briefing at the 2008 International CES Conference

Monday, January 7, 2008

2:00 p.m. PST

Robbie Bach, president, Entertainment and Devices Division

Interested parties can listen to a webcast of this event on Microsoft’s Investor Relations Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/msft.

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