Microsoft has a strong cloud business, mobile phone business down to 54% revenue down to 1,000 people restructuring

Microsoft announced the settlement of accounts for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 (July - September 2015). According to the results, the results have come up in the cloud business where Satya Nadera's efforts are put in place, while Microsoft Azure has doubled its revenue compared to the same period last year, while Office 365 has gained a good result with revenue up by 70% In the mobile phone business, revenues are down 54%, and 1,000 employees are to be dismissed.

FY16 Q1 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY16/Q1/default.aspx


Microsoft Earnings Climb, Lifted by Strong Growth in Cloud Computing - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/technology/microsoft-earnings.html

Microsoft reports falling revenues, slowing surface sales in latest quarter | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/22/9599674/microsoft-q1-2016-earnings

Overall revenues declined by 12% compared to the same period last year to $ 20.4 billion (about 2.4 trillion yen). Profit was down 1% to $ 5.8 billion (about 701.1 billion yen), net income increased 2% to $ 4.6 billion (about 556 billion yen).

By business segment, the strong cloud related activities that Nedera CEO is focusing on are prominent. Office and cloud revenue up 5%. Office 365, a monthly billing service, has increased by 3 million users to a total of 18.2 million, with revenues increasing by 70%.

Home - cloud version groupware service Office 365
http://www.microsoft.com/ja-jp/office/365/


Microsoft Dynamics also posted revenue up 12%, Microsoft Azure doubled both usage and revenue. Bing's search business is also booming with revenue up 29%.

On the other hand, revenues are decreasing in many businesses.In the third quarter of 2015 it was a pillar of earnings SurfaceWas down from $ 908 million (about 118.5 billion yen) in the same period last year to 672 million dollars (about 81.2 billion yen). Windows OEM also earnings down 6%. In the Xbox business, revenues also declined as Xbox 360 sales declined. However, revenue increased by 6% in the entire game business.

Microsoft Surface tablet - demonstrate productivity
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ja-jp


Especially depressed was the fact that the revenue declined by 54% in the mobile phone business, where sales increased due to increased sales of Lumia, like Surface. According to the New York Times, the restructuring scale of 18,000 people has already been done since last year, but this week it is expected that 1,000 people will be restructured further.