Microsoft revenues up on cloud & Office 365, slowed by phones & Surface
Apple rival Microsoft's revenues were up 13 percent year-over-year to $23.3 billion in the June quarter, with profits of $6.5 billion -- driven largely by its cloud and Office businesses however, as some hardware efforts struggled.
Microsoft's fifth-generation Surface Pro came too late in the quarter to help.
Revenues in Microsoft's "More Personal Computing" category dipped 2 percent to $8.9 billion, noted. The category covers Windows, hardware, Xbox, and search and advertising.
The fall was largely because of the Surface PC line, which itself slipped 2 percent. Up until the last two weeks the line was mostly stagnant, riding mainly on the Surface Book and 2015's Surface Pro 4. It's only then that Microsoft began shipping an updated Surface Pro, as well as the new Surface Laptop.
Phone revenues were effectively nil, as with the previous quarter. The global smartphone market is now largely split between Android devices and Apple's iPhone, and Microsoft has all but abandoned efforts to take ground. The company lists just five phones on its website, one of which runs the defunct Windows Phone 8.1.
Windows OEM sales were flat outside of the professional market, but still did better than the consumer PC industry, mostly because of a shift towards high-end systems.
Apple's Mac shipments fell 0.4 percent year-over-year in the June quarter. The company nevertheless rose a spot to fourth place in the PC market, claiming 6.9 percent of it. Windows PC makers HP, Lenovo, and Dell held the podium.
Microsoft's fifth-generation Surface Pro came too late in the quarter to help.
Revenues in Microsoft's "More Personal Computing" category dipped 2 percent to $8.9 billion, noted. The category covers Windows, hardware, Xbox, and search and advertising.
The fall was largely because of the Surface PC line, which itself slipped 2 percent. Up until the last two weeks the line was mostly stagnant, riding mainly on the Surface Book and 2015's Surface Pro 4. It's only then that Microsoft began shipping an updated Surface Pro, as well as the new Surface Laptop.
Phone revenues were effectively nil, as with the previous quarter. The global smartphone market is now largely split between Android devices and Apple's iPhone, and Microsoft has all but abandoned efforts to take ground. The company lists just five phones on its website, one of which runs the defunct Windows Phone 8.1.
Windows OEM sales were flat outside of the professional market, but still did better than the consumer PC industry, mostly because of a shift towards high-end systems.
Apple's Mac shipments fell 0.4 percent year-over-year in the June quarter. The company nevertheless rose a spot to fourth place in the PC market, claiming 6.9 percent of it. Windows PC makers HP, Lenovo, and Dell held the podium.
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Everyone is fawning over Microsoft. It's PE is double Apple's
Ridiculous
<OPINION>Surface is such an overhyped BLAH product line</OPINION>
There. That's better.
That's why it's not selling.
Microsoft had plenty of time to build a tablet OS for ARM and they chose to take the easy way out in selling tablets with cooling fans.
After iOS 11 is released, PC/Desktop sales will really start to decline and Microsot will become just a Cloud company.
Time will tell.
The Surface Pro m3 and i5 are fanless right now. IMO, that's an achievement considering the size of the Surface Pro.
PCs sales are flat/down for years, same as iPads. I don't see how iOS 11 will change that in the next years.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2016/12/12/13919312/microsoft-surface-sales-mac-switch
What nonsense. I know for a fact you don’t have an ipad pro, because if you did you’d know better. The new display is incredible – the 120 hertz screen blows anything else away. The auto color tone changing is awesome, the color gamut is awesome, the speed at which you can draw with the pencil, the speed with 3D apps... the thing smokes.
and youre honestly trying to claim the new iMac Pro is blah? Tell me, what makes a pro if not superior specs?
and you want outdated legacy ports so you can use old dongles? that’s pro? troll on, brother.
That high satisfaction rating that is the only metric really going for it? I remember Windows Phone got one too, years ago. Sometimes it's an aberration.
Surface has been a failure. It's another MS abortion that they'll hang on to like grim death until there's nothing left. Like old underwear.
And that AIO line that they released last year? Whatever happened to it? Buzz for maybe a week or two and then forgotten. That's Microsoft for ya. Since forever.