Microsoft has published data on the work in the second calendar quarter of 2014 (in the accounting department of the company - it is the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014). Revenue for the three months was $ 23.4 billion, which is 18% more than last year ($ 19.9 billion). Net income for the year decreased from $ 4.9 billion to $ 4.6 billion , role in reducing the company's net profit was played by the mobile division of Nokia, the absorption of which was completed on the 25th day after the start of the reporting quarter. Buying Nokia has added to revenue $ 2 billion and deducted from net income to operating expenses $ 750 million for work units Phone Hardware.
In general, Microsoft executives commends the group Phone Hardware. During the reporting quarter was sold 5.8 million smartphones under the brand Lumia and 30.3 million other devices, including the most common cell phones. Total Group Devices & Consumer Division, which includes the subdivision Phone Hardware, saved for the quarter $ 10 billion, which corresponds to an annual increase in quarterly revenue by 42%.
Tablets Surface brought the company for the quarter $ 409 million in revenue. This can hardly be called a success as the previous quarter revenues from this category of branded products was $ 500 million, however, submitted by the end of June a brand new tablet Surface Pro 3 sold better than previous generations of tablets, though tablets collectively second generation brought most of Revenue in this product category. By the way, at the press conference Microsoft representative said that with the release of another model in another form factor decided to wait
But revenues from cloud services - is growing by leaps and bounds. For the year this trend has increased fundraising by almost 150% - to $ 4.4 billion, which is sales of Office within the Azure infrastructure and more.