These parts of the business performed the best:
* Hardware (Surface, Xbox and Xbox Live subscriptions, second- and third-party video games, and other hardware): $1.97 billion revenue, up 41 percent.
This category received a big boost from the launch of Xbox One consoles in November last year. Microsoft sold 1.2 million Xbox One consoles in the third quarter, and 800,000 Xbox 360 units.
Surface revenue grew 50 percent to about $500 million, Microsoft reported.
* Office 365 Home now has 4.4 million subscribers, up 1 million from last quarter.
* Office 365 revenue, as well as commercial seats, about doubled, while Azure revenue grew more than 150 percent.
This will make lots of iTrolls, XP curmudgeons, and Linux cultists really sad.