Microsoft improves its income supported by Surface

Business is business, and, beyond the expectation generated by events like last week, in the end what matters are financial resultsThose corresponding to the second quarter of fiscal year 2015 have just been published by Microsoft, showing that the company remains in good he alth and faces its future with a solid foundation.

Redmond's have nearly met analyst expectations, which had expected revenue in excess of $26 billion and earnings per share of $0.71. Specifically, for the quarter from October to December of last year, Microsoft has presented some revenues of 26.$470 million and earnings per share of $0.71. These figures are also crowned with some profits of 5,863 million dollars

With these results, Microsoft partially improves what was obtained in the same quarter of 2013, corresponding to Q2 of fiscal year 2014. Compared to that period, this time the company has earned 8% more than last year, but its net benefits are reduced by 2% and its earnings per share fall from $0.78 to $0.71.

Windows descends, devices and services grow

By division, the company continues to derive a critical portion of its revenue from licensing its products, even as Windows numbers continue to decline. In the last quarter, revenue from Windows licenses fell by 13%, partly due to the still weak PC market and partly to the cost reduction promoted by Microsoft itself.

Even so, the company's segments oriented to the consumer market manage to grow 8%, up to 12.9 billion in revenues, thanks in part to the push of the devices. Among them is Surface, which continues its path of growth and already has a business of 1,100 million dollars to the company. But there are also mobile phones, which with 10.5 million Lumia and 39.7 million 'feature phones' sold generate revenues of 2.3 billion dollars.

The other part of the blame for the growth in these segments is in some of the main Microsoft services. This is the case of Office 365, which already has more than 9.2 million subscribers, increasing the number of users by 30% in just three months. Or Bing, whose income has grown by 23% and whose market share is already 19.7% in the United States.

Microsoft's business also grows with respect to the company. Supported by its cloud enterprise revenues grow 5% to $13.3 billion, with Office 365, Azure and Dynamic CRM Online becoming single-handed a $5.5 billion business.

It is precisely the cloud that Microsoft is relying on more and more. In the cloud and in services based on it, everything indicates that they will pick up the baton from Windows and its licensing model. Surprisingly, this is without forgetting a hardware that seemed to be in the spotlight with the change of CEO and that right now is one of the growth poles of the company.

Via | Microsoft