Microsoft has announced its quarterly financial statements, reporting revenue of $33.7 billion, up 12% on the same period last year.
The company stated that Azure revenue is up 64% year on year. Azure has overtaken the other two segments and is now the biggest, by a small amount. In addition, Azure gross margin has improved by 6% year on year.
Office 365 revenue is up 31% year on year.
Gaming was a black spot, declining 10% year on year – though Xbox Live monthly active users is at a record 65 million. The main problem is a 48% decline in the volume of Xbox consoles sold.
Quarter ending June 30th 2019 vs quarter ending June 30th 2018, $millions
Segment | Revenue | Change | Operating income | Change |
Productivity and Business Processes | 11047 | +1379 | 4344 | +878 |
Intelligent Cloud | 11391 | +1785 | 4502 | +601 |
More Personal Computing | 11279 | +468 | 3559 | +547 |
The segments break down as:
Productivity and Business Processes: Office, Office 365, Dynamics 365 and on-premises Dynamics, LinkedIn
Intelligent Cloud: Server products, Azure cloud services
More Personal Computing: Consumer including Windows, Xbox; Bing search; Surface hardware