Microsoft released yesterday its second quarter (FY2005) financial report. As we reported yesterday, the Xbox operations saw double-digit sales growth and, for the first time, posted their first profitable quarter.

During the day, Microsoft held an audio webcast with John Connors, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, discussing details regarding the company’s performance for the quarter as well as other forward-looking information. During the Q&A session, an attendant asked about the next Xbox possible unveiling date and release date. John Connors said the following:

In terms on the next Xbox, we haven’t announced a release. I think the next period when Robbie and the team will talk about that is at E3 in Los Angeles in May. They’re hard at work on it, but it doesn’t have a summer announce.

This follows yesterday’s announcement by the organizers of the Game Developers Conference that J Allard will deliver a keynote address at the conference. Someone would expect that if the Xbox successor was going to be announced at the conference, that a top-tier exec or Bill Gates himself would be on stage to unveil the new console.

It seems we’ll have to wait till May for any official Xbox 2 news. The silver lining is that this year’s E3 will be all about the next generation as Microsoft joins Sony and Nintendo, who have officially confirmed next generation presentations for the show.