Happy Friday, everyone.
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The biggest story from yesterday: Microsoft reported $22.1 billion in sales, but that translated to a dip in year-over-year earnings thanks to income tax expenses and some other bookkeeping measures.
Pay attention to which of Microsoft's businesses are making more money and which are making less. Here's how it breaks down:
- Office 365 subscription revenue rose 63%, helping drive $6.5 billion in sales in the overall Productivity and Business Processes Unit
- Azure revenue rose 120% and server products and cloud services revenue rose 5%. Both are part of the Intelligent Cloud division, which saw a 3% rise in overall sales to $6.1 billion.
- Search revenue rose 55% to $1.5 billion, thanks to ads.
- Surface revenue shot up 56% to $1.1 billion. (Thanks, Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book Notebook!)
- But Windows OEM sales dropped 2%.
- Phone revenue dropped 47% to $746 million and the number of units sold plunged 73% to 2.3 million phones sold.
Surface, Windows OEM and phone sales are all part of the More Personal Computing unit. Shaky Windows OEM and phone sales aside, the unit did log $9.5 billion in sales, the largest amount of sales logged for a specific unit, even if the sales growth was tiny (1%).
The areas of revenue growth are basically a direct reflection of Microsoft repositioning itself; it'll be interesting to see if the trends continue.
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And here's what we've been publishing:
Here's a Peek at the New Windows 10 PCs Acer Announced — If you're looking for someplace to spend your tax refund or you want to upgrade your hardware before the next major Windows 10 update, a few companies have new computer options to consider.
Student Jailbreaks Microsoft Band 1 — b0n0n has devised and provided a recipe for modifying any of the code and data in Band 1 update to whatever you want.
Tech Data Partners to Bring the Microsoft Band into the Business Wellness Sector — Tech Data has worked a partnership with Microsoft to begin distributing the Microsoft Band 2 for use in corporate wellness programs, blue-light services, utilizes, insurance, healthcare, and health research sectors. This partnership makes Tech Data the exclusive B2B commercial distributor for the Microsoft Band 2 in the UK.
Check out Microsoft's Document Sharing Website Docs.com — An alternative to using OneDrive for sharing these documents with the public or a limited group of readers is to use Microsoft's Docs.com website which is part of their free Office Online suite of products and services.
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