Microsoft has in its last financial lwa le quarter, when the Xbox One was ge lwa site, 3.9 million copies of the new console supplied. Also took the sales of the Surface tablets will increase significantly, compared with a quarter earlier.
Further, the revenue that Microsoft from the sale of Surface tablets achieve, increased, indicating that the number of tablets sold has increased. Microsoft got with the Surface tablets in the last quarter, converted to 653 million euro; a quarter before that was $ 400 million, or 292 million euro. In addition, the revenue from the Surface tablets in the last quarter, higher than in the entire last financial year of Microsoft. In October, the new Surface tablets, the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2.
Anything less it went with the sale of Windows licenses to manufacturers; this won Microsoft 3 percent less. That is, according to Microsoft, by the disappointing sales of desktops and laptops. However, took the income from the sale of business licenses to manufacturers, with 12 percent. Also the revenue from the Windows Phone branch increased by 50 percent, due to increased sales of licenses and revenue from the licensing of patents.
The number of increased licenses for Windows Phones is a surprise. Nokia, that nine out of ten Windows Phones sell, saw the number of sold copies are cut. That indicates that other manufacturers are relatively more Windows Phone licenses have decreased. The only explanation is the release of the Huawei Ascend W2 smartphone, the only new Windows Phone last quarter that are not made by Nokia is made. Also the number of Office 365 customers increased.
In total holds Microsoft in the last quarter, a turnover of the equivalent of some 18 billion euro. A year earlier it was eur 16 billion. The profit amounted to around 5 billion euros, which is 132 million euros more than the profit in the same period a year earlier.