Several years ago, Microsoft bought the phone unit Nokia. . But something went wrong. This is something that started earlier. Somewhere on the road to smart phones Nokia has lost the initiative. Under the wing of Microsoft Nokia Group and its products could not regain its former credibility, which was really difficult. At this point in the smartphone market, a lot of good players, and Microsoft used to play with only one goal. Now we have what we have. Sales of Microsoft Smartphone is rapidly declining. As shown by the report for the first three months of this year, a year quarterly sales of Windows Phone smartphones decreased by 46%, namely Lumia devices - by 74% to 2.3 million units for the quarter..
In general, Microsoft quarterly revenue declined by 6% year on year - up to $ 20.5 billion Operating companies income fell by 20% -. To $ 5.3 billion, net income for the quarter decreased by 24% during the year -. To $ 3.8 billion.
The most profitable division of Microsoft is still a group of Personal Computing. During the quarter, the division's revenue was $ 9.5 billion., And it increased by 1% per year. This is money from sales of Windows (OEM), Surfaces devices and gaming consoles Xbox. During the year, quarterly sales Surfaces tablets increased from $ 713 million. To $ 1.1 billion. Windows OEM system sales decreased by 2%.
Intelligent Cloud Division brought the company for the quarter $ 6.1 billion -. It is 3% more than in the same quarter last year. If not for currency fluctuations, the company's server products and cloud services for the year would have increased quarterly revenue by 5%. Proceeds from the Azure cloud services has increased over the year by 120%. Using the Azure platform for remote settlements and as a remote database (Azure SQL) with the doubled party members for the year.
Group Productivity and Business Processes, responsible for Office and other similar software, increased quarterly revenue by 1% - to $ 6.5 billion in revenue from Office 365, increased by 63% per year (excluding currency fluctuations)..