WW 866: Squishmallows With Guns - FY24 Q2 earnings, Teams worldwide outage, 1st-run experience redesign
Microsoft announced Tuesday that it earned a net income of $21.9 billion on revenues of $62 billion in the quarter ending December 31, 2023. Those figures are up 33 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
Intelligent Cloud: Azure, AI
- Microsoft's biggest business unit delivered $25.9 billion in revenue, up 20 percent YOY and driven primarily by its Azure cloud platform
- Azure revenues were up 30 percent in the quarter, 6 points of which Microsoft attributed to "AI services"
Productivity and Business Processes: Microsoft 365
- $19.2 billion in revenues, with growth of 13 percent YOY
- Office Commercial revenues were up 15 percent
More Personal Computing: Xbox, Windows
- Revenues of $16.9 billion, up 19 percent YOY
- Gaming revenues surged 49 percent (44 points from Activision Blizzard)
- Xbox hardware revenues inched up by 3 percent
- Windows revenues from PC makers grew 11 percent in the quarter
Windows
- Canary: Voice Clarity comes to more PCs, and Microsoft previews new/old Windows Setup first-run experience
- Dev: Minor bug fixes only
- Beta: Snap Layout suggestions, new settings in Widgets, and you can now revert to stable (!!)
Microsoft 365
- Teams goes down for the count
AI
- Microsoft adds deepfake guardrails to Designer AI. So, this wasn't there before now?
- FTC is investigating Microsoft/OpenAI and other Big Tech AI partnerships
Xbox
- Microsoft can finally bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to the iPhone (and Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone in the EU)
- 1900 layoffs at Activision Blizzard, Zenimax, and Xbox
Tips and Picks
- Tip of the week: Upgrade to passkeys
- App pick of the week: Insync
- RunAs Radio this week: Software Licensing with Mary Jo Foley
- Brown liquor pick of the week: Dailuaine 16
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