Microsoft Breakdown of the Latest Advantages: Cloud in First Position

Microsoft's cloud business becomes the "fuel" that generates the profits of the Redmond-based company. Although in principle, more and more customers are registering for storage, processing and Office software but these are the ones that use the cloud as a base.

Although badysts have predicted, the growth of Microsoft Cloud activities is greater than their expectations. Analysts estimate at $ 7.95 billion growth in Microsoft's cloud business, while Microsoft records $ 8.35 billion. This increases Microsoft's share of 3.6% to $ 108.20 per share.

Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, is targeting a steady growth in Azure's and Office 365's business, but the growth of the Cloud is indeed remarkable. Azure rose 89 percent, and that's only in a quarter! While Office 365 shows more "normal" growth that is "only" 38%.

"Azure is now a hot issue . Office 365 too, "says Dan Morgan, Senior Portfolio Manager at Snovus Trust, which owns shares in Microsoft. "Microsoft is riding an incredible wave and is doing great things to boost society.It's the right step because it depends on the PC's" dead line ".

During the fourth quarter of last year, the company successfully acquired a code-sharing site, GitHub Inc. rising to $ 7.5 billion. The main purpose of Satya at the time was to accelerate the movement of Cloud and Artificial Intelligence. Michael Spencer, managing director of for investors, revealed that Microsoft was on the right track with this purchase.

The big jump in Azure's profits is still not able to compete with the Amazon cloud industry, AWS, whose value is still three times greater than Azure's . But by posting the strongest continuous growth, perhaps in the next few years, Microsoft may already overtake AWS as a major provider of cloud services, especially for the enterprise. This performance makes Microsoft's market capitalization third in the world, just behind Apple and Google.

Do not underestimate any other area. Although the benefits of PCs are no longer up to date for Microsoft, their high-end PC line, Surface, has also shown significant sales increases. The profit of sales of Microsoft PC is up by 17% and reaches 10.8 billion dollars. Revenue from Xbox gaming services and consoles also generated $ 10 billion in profits for the first time.

This flood of profits suggests that Nadella is doing a lot of things well that she is the most hated by Microsoft fans to shut down Windows Mobile 10 then.

Source: IT Pro.