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.
As far as I know, Microsoft made no money off of me this fiscal year. Of course, I’m in my 70th orbit around the sun so I have to watch my money a bit more, nowadays.
Office 365 is good, but they’ve got to get rid of Windows 8 or 8.1. I’ve heard there’s a new “major update” coming out soon, and then there will be a Win 9. I sure hope so, because if they don’t change this, their results will be a lot different next year as people migrate to other systems.