Microsoft: Sales of the Surface, and the Xbox fall sharply

Microsoft it has been reported financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal on march 31, 2024). Revenues and profits were up compared to the same period in 2023, driven by the services in the cloud, and the Office, as has been the case for many years to come. However, the data highlight a sharp drop of the proceeds from the sale of the Surface and Xbox.

Falling to the Surface, and Xbox
Microsoft registered to the income tax to the total of 61.9 billion (+17%), and gained a net of 21.9 billion (+20%) in the third quarter of fiscal 2024. The data are positive to come out of the spectrum of the Productivity and Business Processes (Office 365, Microsoft 365, LinkedIn, Dynamics 365 and the Intelligent Cloud computing (Azure), with higher incomes, respectively, 12% and 21%. A significant contribution came from the integration of the Copilot in the services business.

Quarter, the segment More Personal Computing was still the positive (+17%), but that is only for Microsoft during the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. In fact, the increase in the income of the contents and services of the Xbox (+62%) is due almost entirely (+61%) to the company carrying out the Call of Duty.

Interestingly, the revenue from licenses of Windows OEM was increased (+11%). In lieu of that, a collapse is quite clear on the device. The number is converted to the Xbox was to be sold it caused a decrease of 31% of revenue. The proceeds from the Surfaces have also fallen (-17%), and to confirm what happened to the negative for more than a year.

The company's Redmond hopes to change the trend with the Surface Pro 10 and Laptop in 6 of the new, which will be announced on the 20th of may. They will be in the computer's seen HIM with the chipsets ARM, i.e. the Snapdragon X-Elite, to Qualcomm, and According to the tests, to be issued by the manufacturer kalifornian, the performance is superior to that of the Intel Core Ultra and the Apple-M3, in particular thanks to the NPU (a Unit of the Processing, the Person), to artificial intelligence.