Earnings Release FY15 Q2 — Microsoft Cloud and Devices Momentum Highlights Second Quarter Results
but didn't sell — 6.6M Xboxes during its fiscal Q2 Barb Darrow / Gigaom : Microsoft cites key cloud and mobile segments for good Q2 Steve Kovach / Business Insider : Surface Booked More Than $1 Billion For Microsoft Last Quarter — Up 24% Harrison Weber / VentureBeat : More than 9.2M people now subscribe to Microsoft Office 365, up 30% since October Jon Fingas / Engadget : Microsoft's Surface tablet business is booming The Tech Report : Cloud surge, Surface sales buoy Microsoft's quarterly results Greg Sterling / Marketing Land : Highlights From MSFT Earnings: Surface Sells, Bing Revenue Up, Windows Struggles Dan Frommer / Quartz : Microsoft's transition to the cloud will be a drawn-out slog Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat : Microsoft sees Surface revenue jump to $1.1B in Q2 2015, sells record 10.5M Lumia smartphones Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Windows Central : Microsoft reports FY15 Q2 results, generated $26.5 billion in revenue Brett Howse / AnandTech : Microsoft Q2 FY 2015 Financial Results: 8% Revenue Gain BBC : Microsoft profits fall on reorganisation charge Daniel Bader / MobileSyrup.com : Microsoft selling more Lumias than ever, but they're mostly cheap devices Business Insider : Microsoft Beats, But Windows Had A Bad Quarter And The Stock Is Dropping Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Microsoft Q2: Surface, enterprise lead the charge Tweets: Paul Thurrott / @thurrott : Windows OEM Pro revenue declined 13%; revenue was impacted by the business market returning to pre-XP EOL level and new low-cost licensing. Dina Bass / @dinabass : Microsoft numbers a bit confusing because of unexpected tax audit charge but it's 77c/shr, ex-items. Compared to 75c/shr analysts expected. Paul Thurrott / @thurrott : Windows volume licensing revenue increased by 3% Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : Lumia rev = $2.3 billion Lumia units = 10.5 million ASP: $220 Horace Dediu / @asymco : Windows OEM Pro revenue declined 13% Horace Dediu / @asymco : Microsoft Surface revenue were $1.1 billion, up 24% Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Microsoft Earnings: Search advertising revenue grew 23%. #BingAds - http://www.microsoft.com/... <= Double digit growth again this quarter :)