Microsoft achieves record revenue in what may be the latest results of the Ballmer era

Microsoft today released what may be the latest financial results with Steve Ballmer leading the company. The still CEO could be fired beating, once again, Microsoft's revenue record in a quarter with 24,520 million dollars The figure corresponds to the second quarter of the fiscal year 2014, which runs from October to December of last year.

The 24,520 million revenues are 3 billion more than in the same period last year and translate into some net profits of 6.560 million dollars In the latter the increase is less (180 million dollars) and its explanation could be in the situation of some of the company's divisions, which are unable to resume the path of growth .

Differences by divisions

There are several explanations for the disparity between revenue growth and slower profit growth, but many of them have to do with the division in charge of Windows. Revenue from licensing Windows to OEMs is down 3%, although revenue from Windows Pro is up 12%. Even so, the department reduces benefits and from Redmond they blame again the slowdown in the PC market.

Together, the Devices and Consumer divisions reported revenues of $11.91 billion, 13% more than in the same period last year.Said increase is largely explained by the change in departments. Thus, the new Hardware division now doubles its revenue while reducing its profits.

Detailing the results, you can see how Surface has also multiplied its income by two, going from 400 million in the first quarter of the fiscal year to 893 million dollars in the second (current). In these last two quarters, Microsoft has sold 7.4 million consoles: 3.9 Xbox One and 3.5 Xbox 360. These numbers will soon have to be added to the sales of the Lumia family recently acquired from Nokia.

In other areas, the numbers of Bing stand out, whose market share in searches has risen to 18.2%, with income from its ad network growing by 34%. For its part, the business division remains as he althy as ever, reporting growth of 10% up to 12.670 million dollars Among them, revenues from cloud services doubled and Office 365 and Azure grew more than 100%.

Microsoft has key months ahead. The takeover of Nokia and the appointment of a new CEO should take place in the current quarter. We'll see how the company does from then on, probably without Ballmer at the helm.

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