SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft’s latest quarterly report will give the software maker another opportunity to persuade investors that its efforts to redesign its products for mobile devices are heading in the right direction, despite recent evidence that the attempted transformation isn’t paying off.

WHAT TO LOOK FOR: The results, due out after the stock market closes Thursday, cover Microsoft’s first full quarter selling Windows 8 — the most radical overhaul of its personal computer operating system since the mid-1990s.

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