Microsoft may again not grumble about the quarterly results, the company was able to record the last quarter revenue of $ 20.5 billion and a profit of 3.8 billion dollars. Very good results, but the gain is decreased, and that is mainly only 2 by the poor performance of the smartphone division, the Lumia’s pushing the company’s profits.
Microsoft did in the past quarter, sell 3 million smartphones, where they were still 8.6 million units a year earlier in the same quarter. Revenues from smartphones declined by 46 percent, which means that the average selling price per Lumia more than doubled. That in itself is a positive development.
What is less positive for Microsoft, is that it is still a huge inventory Lumia’s has are not yet sold on the shelf. That made financial director Amy Wood known, that could mean eventually that Microsoft lot millions have to write off his stock. That is as acidic and has to do with the company’s strategy change, Microsoft has stopped flooding the market with new models, instead it brings another handful of qualitative models that need to make success all. This results in fewer sales, but more profit per unit sold. That may eventually have indeed been very successful, just look at the Surface products
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The results from the Surface products was positive this quarter. The new Surface Pro and Surface 4 Book provide a boost in sales and also in total sales, which went up by 61 percent and amounted to $ 1.1 billion.
Most sales of Microsoft eventually comes from the products business, sales of Office and Office 365 went up by 7 percent and the company now has 22 million subscribers. However, revenue from Azure breaks all records, which went up by 120 percent and now comes out over $ 10 billion. That Azure accounts for 50 percent of sales. With Windows 10 it is also still good, there are now 270 million Windows 10 users, how much revenue has Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Store is unfortunately unclear.
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