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MICROSOFT CORP 8-K Report, Corporate Update (Oct 10, 2006)

Filed October 10, 2006For Securities:MSFT

Summary

This Form 8-K filing by Microsoft Corporation on October 10, 2006, primarily serves to provide XBRL-formatted data from its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2006. This supplementary filing is for testing purposes related to the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) technology. Investors should note that the XBRL data provided is unaudited and not the official financial statements. Therefore, investors should continue to rely on the officially filed versions of Microsoft's financial reports for making investment decisions, as the XBRL data in this 8-K is not intended for direct use in investment analysis or to incur liability under Section 18 of the Exchange Act.

Key Highlights

  • 1Microsoft Corporation is filing this Form 8-K on October 10, 2006, to provide XBRL-formatted data from its FY2006 10-K.
  • 2The XBRL data pertains to specific sections of Part I and Part II of the previously filed Form 10-K, excluding auditor reports.
  • 3This filing is for testing the XBRL format and related technology.
  • 4The XBRL financial information included in this filing is explicitly stated as unaudited.
  • 5Investors are cautioned to rely on the official, filed versions of Microsoft's financial statements and not on this XBRL data for investment decisions.
  • 6This filing is not intended to create liability under Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  • 7The filing includes various XBRL documents such as instance, schema, calculation, definition, label, and presentation linkbase documents.

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