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Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Lidell summed it up: Microsoft;s Q2 fiscal 2008 earnings were “outstanding.”On January 24,Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007 Serial, Microsoft reported earnings of $4.7 billion, or 50 cents a share,Microsoft Office 2007 Standard cl��, on revenue of $16.36 billion for its second quarter of fiscal 2008. Even more impressive,Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, the company upped its guidance for the rest of fiscal 2008. Windows Vista (especially “premium” versions),Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, Office 2007 and Server and Tools products were all big contributors in the quarter. Interestingly, 60 percent of Microsoft;s sales are coming from outside the U.S. now, thanks, in part, to Microsoft;s crackdown on piracy via its Genuine Advantage DRM technology.As LiveSide.net notes, Microsoft;s Online Systems Business (OSB) is still losing money. “While the Online Services Business (MSN + Windows Live) reports a $245 million operating loss for the quarter, this is down slightly from the $265million loss repoted in Q1,Office 2007 Pro Activation,” LiveSide said. OSB costs had been also at record levels — $1.1 billion — LiveSide added. That;s a lot of server racks… or whatever it is OSB is spending on….Microsoft is still saying it expects to be in “investment mode for the foreseeable future” with its OSB unit — which means Microsoft expects it still will be years until it turns a profit.