Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Microsoft earnings show an uptick for Azure and Surface, slow going for Xbox

Promotional image of desktop computer.

Enlarge / Xbox Series X, due in late 2020. It's tall. And it has a modified controller compared to the Xbox One pad. (credit: Xbox)

Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke with investors on the company's quarterly earnings call to share some numbers about Microsoft's performance in the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal year, which ended on December 31, 2019. In general, Microsoft beat analyst projections with a strong quarter thanks primarily to impressive performance by Azure and Office.

Key numbers include $36.9 billion in revenue with a net income of $11.6 billion, an improvement over analyst predictions of $35.7 billion for the first of those figures.

The cloud and productivity divisions each delivered around $11.8 billion in revenue. That makes for a 29 percent gain for cloud and 17 percent for productivity, which includes both Office and LinkedIn. More specifically, Azure revenue increased by 64 percent. Office saw 16 percent revenue growth for the commercial segment and 19 percent for the personal.

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