Citing growth in cloud services, Microsoft reported quartler revenue of $56.5 billion, an increase of 13% (up 12% in constant currency), net income of $22.3 billion, up 27% (up 26% in constant currency), with diluted earnings per share was $2.99 and increased 27% (up 26% in constant currency).
“With copilots, we are making the age of AI real for people and businesses everywhere,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. “We are rapidly infusing AI across every layer of the tech stack and for every role and business process to drive productivity gains for our customers.”
“Consistent execution by our sales teams and partners drove a strong start to the fiscal year with Microsoft Cloud revenue of $31.8 billion, up 24% (up 23% in constant currency) year-over-year,” said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft.
Business Highlights
Revenue in Productivity and Business Processes was $18.6 billion and increased 13% (up 12% in constant currency), with the following business highlights:
- Office Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 15% (up 14% in constant currency) driven by Office 365 Commercial revenue growth of 18% (up 17% in constant currency)
- Office Consumer products and cloud services revenue increased 3% (up 4% in constant currency) and Microsoft 365 Consumer subscribers grew to 76.7 million
- LinkedIn revenue increased 8%
- Dynamics products and cloud services revenue increased 22% (up 21% in constant currency) driven by Dynamics 365 revenue growth of 28% (up 26% in constant currency)
Revenue in Intelligent Cloud was $24.3 billion and increased 19%, with the following business highlights:
- Server products and cloud services revenue increased 21% driven by Azure and other cloud services revenue growth of 29% (up 28% in constant currency)
Revenue in More Personal Computing was $13.7 billion and increased 3% (up 2% in constant currency), with the following business highlights:
- Windows revenue increased 5% with Windows OEM revenue growth of 4% and Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue growth of 8%
- Devices revenue decreased 22%
- Xbox content and services revenue increased 13% (up 12% in constant currency)
- Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 10% (up 9% in constant currency)