Microsoft reports strong cloud growth in Q3 earnings

Summary

• Microsoft has posted its third-quarter results for the 2025 fiscal year, recording a 13% hike in revenue to $70.1bnandan18$25.8bn.
• Its overall gaming revenue is up 5%, with Xbox content and services up 8% and Xbox hardware down 6%.
• The company’s Office and cloud businesses performed well, with Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions up to 87.7 million and Microsoft 365 commercial products and cloud services seeing an 11% increase in revenue.
• Intelligent cloud revenue was up 21% to $26.8bn, with Microsoft noting strong growth in Azure.
• The firm combines Surface revenue with Windows OEM revenue, making it unclear how its hardware offering is performing, but it has launched Intel-powered versions of the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses and is rumoured to be unveiling smaller iterations of these devices.

By Tom Warren

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