Microsoft Teams users surpass 145 million, doubling in a year



Microsoft released its financial results for the third quarter of 2021 on April 27, 2021. In addition to reports of increased sales and operating income, the number of users of the online conferencing tool 'Microsoft Teams' increased from 75 million to 145 million due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19). It has been reported.

FY21 Q3 --Press Releases --Investor Relations --Microsoft

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-21-Q3/press-release-webcast

Microsoft: Teams is now at 145 million daily active users | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-teams-is-now-at-145-million-daily-active-users/

Microsoft beats earnings estimates with $ 41.7B in revenue, up 19%, and $ 15.5B in profit, up 44% --GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2021/microsoft-beats-earnings-estimates-41-7b-revenue-19-15-5b-profit-44/

As a result of the promotion of remote work under the influence of COVID-19, meeting apps such as Zoom have grown significantly in 2020. Microsoft has also expanded its online conferencing tools,including the ability to change background images,and announced that it had reached 111,500 active users in 2020.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Vice President Jeff Teper announced that Microsoft Teams has more than 145 million daily active users. This number is the end of March 2021. Before the pandemic began, Microsoft Teams had about 32 million active users per day, but after the pandemic began, it increased to 75 million a few weeks later. It doubled from there, recording 145 million active users.



In addition, according to the financial report released on the 27th, revenue in the third quarter of 2021 was 41.7 billion dollars (4.54 trillion yen), an increase of 19% from the same period of the previous year, and operating income was 17 billion dollars (1.8500 billion yen). It was 100 million yen), an increase of 31% from the same period of the previous year. The 19% year-on-year increase is the highest growth rate since 2018.



Net income US GAAP (GAAP) 155 billion dollars (about 1 trillion 690,000,000,000 yen), a non-GAAP 14.8 billion dollars (1.6 trillion yen) were respectively year 44% up, 38% increase ..

Microsoft's growth can be seen outside of Microsoft Teams. Gaming revenue was up 50% and Surface revenue was up 12%, with growth recorded in many sectors. The largest revenue growth was in the Intelligent Cloud segment, which increased 23% year-on-year to $ 15.1 billion. It seems that the growth of the Azure cloud computing platform and related services was particularly large.

Microsoft has also announced that Windows is running on 1.3 billion active devices. The original target of 1 billion units was exceeded in May 2020, and it can be seen that the growth is higher than expected.

Microsoft Officially Hits Its Original Goal of 1 Billion Windows 10 Devices
https://wccftech.com/microsoft-hits-its-original-goal-of-1-billion-windows-10-devices/

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