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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by freehunter on Thursday January 23, 2014 @04:57PM (#7111547)
Office 365, Bing advertisements, Surface tablets (they say they doubled their revenue from Surface in the last year), Xbox 360, Xbox Live, Xbox One, Microsoft human input devices (mice and keyboards), Windows upgrades (consumer and OEM), Skydrive, support and licensing, SQL Server, Windows Server in general, Skype, Exchange... the list goes on.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by cwyers on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:09PM (#7111638)
The list could be practically endless, but Azure should probably be listed too.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by Maarten88 on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:38AM (#7113928)
Certainly. Azure is way behind AWS in the startup scene, but Microsoft is pushing Azure into the enterprise, with good features such as service bus and VPN to connect internal networks with cloud services. The list of Azure services is growing rapidly. Microsoft is also bundling Azure hosting with enterprise agreements, which effectively gives enterprises a substantial free tier.
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by polyomino on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:20PM (#7111727)
They doubled their surface revenue in the last quarter, they never released last year's surface revenue
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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by tanzam75 on Thursday January 23, 2014 @05:47PM (#7111958)
> &hey doubled their surface revenue in the last quarter, they never released last year's surface revenue*

They said that Surface revenue doubled sequentially.

Sequentially means compared to the last quarter -- not the year-ago quarter.

From the earnings release:

> Surface revenue more than doubled sequentially, from $400 million in the first quarter to $893 million in the second quarter.

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Re:Microsoft Reports Record Revenue of $24.52 Billion in Sec... by freehunter on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:10PM (#7112747)
Whoops, my mistake!
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