Microsoft announced on the eve of quarterly results, reported a profit of $6.3 billion and revenue of $25.7 billion in Revenue from the Surface decreased in comparison with the same period last year by 29%, but its fall has kept good sales Book Surface and Surface Pro 4. Smartphone business software Corporation showed more disappointing results.

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Microsoft announced on the eve of quarterly results, reported a profit of $6.3 billion and revenue of $25.7 billion in Revenue from the Surface decreased in comparison with the same period last year by 29%, but its fall has kept good sales Book Surface and Surface Pro 4. Smartphone business software Corporation showed more disappointing results.

Revenue from sales of Lumia devices were down 49%, not helped the launch of the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL. Some journalists called them "nadoblastyami with the raw operating system". In the reporting quarter was sold only 4.5 million Lumia smartphones in the reported quarter of 2014 is over 10 million.

according To statistics from IDC, the share of WP-smartphones accounted for 1.1% of the market. "Windows Phone is dead," writes The Verge. According to the journalist of the edition, even an increase of more than 50% will not be the salvation for Lumia smartphones.

the Xbox Division, in turn, on the contrary, shows growth, and the number of active clients amounted to 48 million, 30% more than last year, but sales of consoles brought less money. Cloud services are also growing Microsoft's revenue from Office 365 has risen 70%, things are well in the server business (10% growth) and cloud computing platform Azure (an increase of 140%).

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