The company reported strong revenue growth across most of its product lines excluding Office commercial products as well as Surface and Xbox content and services revenue. Microsoft reported net income of $20.5 billion with earnings of $2.71 a share. Non-GAAP earnings for the first quarter were $2.27 a share on revenue of $45.3 billion. Wall Street was looking for first quarter revenue of $43.97 billion with earnings of $2.07 a share. CEO Satya Nadella said technology demand would remain strong as inflation picked up because it is a “deflationary force in an inflationary economy.” Microsoft Cloud revenue for the first quarter was $20.7 billion in revenue, up 36% from a year ago. By unit, Microsoft’s Productivity and Business Processes revenue was $15 billion in the first quarter with Office 365 Commercial revenue growth of 23%, LinkedIn revenue growth of 42% and Dynamics 65 revenue groth of 48%. The Intelligent Cloud division reported revenue of $17 billion, up 31% from a year ago. More Personal Computing revenue was $13.3 bilion, up 12% from a year ago. Other notable data points:
Microsoft’s search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs grew 40%. Surface revenue fell 17%. And LinkedIn’s Marketing Solutions growth was up 61% in the first quarter compared to a year ago.
The first quarter highlights in review: Cloud:
Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent servicesEU regulators asking Teams rivals about Microsoft’s bundling practices, per Slack’s 2020 complaintMicrosoft’s Cloud for Financial Services to be generally available November 1Microsoft grants Azure credits to open source projects for a yearFormer AWS exec Charlie Bell to head new Microsoft Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management org
Enterprise software:
Microsoft readies new Feedback Portal preview for end of 2021Microsoft to add new education-focused M365 A1 per-device subscription planMicrosoft’s new non-subscription Office 2021 starts at $150 and arrives October 5Microsoft takes another crack at a dual-screen Android phone with Duo 2Microsoft readies more Teams hybrid meeting features; frees up more LinkedIn remote-work coursesWhatever happened to Hyper-V Server and other Windows Server 2022 questionsMicrosoft Teams: These new features arrive to keep workers on the moveThe best Surface PC: Every Surface device is Windows 11-ready
Windows 11:
