Microsoft earns more on servermarkt

The revenue and profit of Microsoft in the servermarkt are increased. In the past three months, the company 1.8 billion dollar operating profit by division for server products, including Windows Server and Azure fall.

With his serverdivisie realized Microsoft has a turnover of 4.6 billion dollars in the last quarter, and $ 17 billion throughout the financial year, the quarterly and annual results the company has published. Below the line earned Microsoft with the division, which includes Windows Server, SQL Server, and the cloud-based Azure includes an operating profit of 1.8 billion dollars in the last quarter, and $ 6.6 billion in the past year. That is an increase of respectively to 12.1 and 16.2 percent. A large part of the growth was caused by better sales of Windows Server and SQL Server.

With the Windows division, which, among other things, the operating system for clients and the Windows Live services are housed, it went slightly less well. The revenue from the business divisions decreased by 1 percent in the last quarter and 2 percent in the whole year. According to Microsoft, is that due to Windows 7 in the previous financial year it was introduced; products frequently sell better shortly after their introduction. In total, there are now 400 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold.

In total holds Microsoft in the last quarter, a turnover of 17,367 billion dollars; an increase of 7.6 percent. Below the line remained a quarterly of 5.8 billion dollars, an increase of 23 percent. The operating profit amounted to 6.1 billion dollars. With the last quarter, Microsoft has its financial year ended; the company achieved over the past financial year with a turnover of 69,9 billion dollars. A year earlier, was 62.5 billion dollars. The profit amounted to 23 billion u.s. dollars; operating profit of 27 billion dollars.