IANS | 01 Feb, 2018
Riding on its growing Cloud business especially Azure offerings,
Microsoft has reported a revenue of $28.9 billion for the fourth
quarter that ended December 31.
This was up 12 per cent
from $25.8 billion in the same quarter last year.
The
company reported operating income of $8.7 billion - an increase of 10
per cent from last year.
"This quarter's results
speak to the differentiated value we are delivering to customers
across our productivity solutions and as the Hybrid Cloud provider of
choice," Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said in a statement
late on Wednesday.
"Our investments in Internet of
Things (IoT), data, and AI services across Cloud and the edge
position us to further accelerate growth," he added.
Revenue
in the Productivity and Business Processes was $9 billion that
increased 25 per cent.
Office commercial products and
Cloud services revenue increased 10 per cent, driven by Office 365
commercial revenue growth of 41 per cent.
"Office
consumer products and Cloud services revenue increased 12 per cent
and Office 365 consumer subscribers increased to 29.2 million,"
the company said.
Dynamics products and Cloud services
revenue increased 10 per cent, driven by Dynamics 365 revenue growth
of 67 per cent.
"LinkedIn contributed revenue of $1.3
billion during the quarter with sessions growth of over 20 per cent
for the fifth consecutive quarter," Microsoft said.
In
December 2016, Microsoft completed the acquisition of LinkedIn, for
which it paid more than $26 billion.
Revenue in
Intelligent Cloud was $7.8 billion and increased 15 per cent from the
same quarter last year.
"Server products and cloud
services revenue increased 18 per cent, driven by Azure revenue
growth of 98 per cent.
Enterprise Services revenue
increased five per cent driven by Premier Support Services.
Revenue
in personal computing was $12.2 billion and increased two per
cent.
Gaming revenue increased eight per cent, driven by
Xbox hardware revenue growth from the Xbox One X launch. Surface
notebook revenue increased 1 per cent, the company said.
Microsoft
returned $5 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases
and dividends in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018.
"We
delivered another strong quarter with commercial cloud revenue
growing 56 per cent year-over-year to $5.3 billion," said Amy
Hood, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of
Microsoft.