Microsoft publishes results above expectations

The group has just released its latest financial results. Like the previous quarter, Microsoft announced a quarterly report higher estimates, but lower than the same period in 2013: revenue 20.4 billion and a net profit of 5.6 billion.

Last January Microsoft presented a quarterly report, concluded in late December, positive. The turnover of 24.52 billion dollars was up year on year by 14%, while net income progressed by 3%, reaching $ 7.9 billion. Since Microsoft has changed direction. Satya Nadella has thus taken the place of Steve Ballmer as CEO in February. 

The group has just published the results of the first quarter of 2014.

Microsoft has obtained a turnover of 20.4 billion dollars, down from a year less than 1%. Also, net income for the quarter decreased compared to the same period 2013. Established 5.6 billion, it was down 6.5%. Despite these declines, these results are higher than the estimates.

 

More specifically, the main increase concerns Azure, the Microsoft cloud platform, which increased by 150%. Division terminals and consumer products realized, in turn, 8.30 billion, up 12%. Also, the number of Windows licenses increased by 11%. Revenue from OEM licenses, too, grew up to 4%, thanks to the 19% growth of sales professionals.

 
In addition, Microsoft said it had sold over this period, 2 million consoles, including 1.2 million of Xbox One and have increased sales of tablet surface over 50% to $ 500 million. 

 

Kevin Turner, manager at Microsoft, said: "(our) products and services continue to offer differentiated products to our customers, and (we) continue to gain market share in areas such as cloud services, data platform and infrastructure management. "