Use of Azure services Microsoft has doubled

Microsoft announced in its quarterly results for the last quarter of 2016 that revenue from its Azure services increased by 93 percent. The Office 365 service has also grown strongly.

Microsoft does not provide exact figures for the Azure service, but does say that the use of the cloud platform has more than doubled compared to the previous year. The entire Intelligent Cloud arm posted sales of 6.86 billion euros, which is higher than the 6.73 billion expected by analysts.

Microsoft’s Office branch also showed significant changes. Business offerings saw a 5 percent increase in revenue, mainly due to a 47 percent increase in Office 365 revenue. Office 365 revenue also increased in the consumer market, partly due to the fact that there are now 24.9 million active subscriptions to it. be the service. Total revenue from Office products for individuals increased by 22 percent. It was previously announced that there are a total of more than 100 million active Office 365 business and private subscriptions.

Microsoft’s gaming business revenue fell 3%. Microsoft indicates that this is mainly due to lower revenue from the sale of the consoles, but that this is largely compensated by a growth in revenue from the sale of software and services for the branch. Geekwire writes that the number of active Xbox Live users has now risen to 55 million accounts. It is not known how many of these are paying Gold accounts.

The company’s total turnover in that quarter was $26 billion, or more than 24 billion euros. Exact revenues from the ailing telephone branch are not shared in the report, but Softpedia knows that its turnover has decreased by 81 percent compared to the same quarter a year earlier.