Windows Weekly 866: Squishmallows With Guns
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that it earned a net income of $21.9 billion on revenues of $62 billion in the quarter ending December 31, 2023. Those figures are up 33 percent and 18 percent, respectively, year-over-year (YOY)
Intelligent Cloud: Azure, AI
Microsoft's biggest business unit delivered $25.9 billion in revenue, up 20 percent YOY and driven primarily by its Azure cloud platform
Azure revenues were up 30 percent in the quarter, 6 points of which Microsoft attributed to "AI services"
Productivity and Business Processes: Microsoft 365
$19.2 billion in revenues, with growth of 13 percent YOY
Office Commercial revenues were up 15 percent
More Personal Computing: Xbox, Windows
Revenues of $16.9 billion, up 19 percent YOY
Gaming revenues surged 49 percent (44 points from Activision Blizzard)
Xbox hardware revenues inched up by 3 percent
Windows revenues from PC makers grew 11 percent in the quarter
Windows
Canary: Voice Clarity comes to more PCs, and Microsoft previews new/old Windows Setup first-run experience
Dev: Minor bug fixes only
Beta: Snap Layout suggestions, new settings in Widgets, and you can now revert to stable (!!)
Microsoft 365
Teams goes down for the count
AI
Microsoft adds deepfake guardrails to Designer AI. So, this wasn't there before now?
FTC is investigating Microsoft/OpenAI and other Big Tech AI partnerships
Xbox
Microsoft can finally bring Xbox Cloud Gaming to the iPhone (and Fortnite is coming back to the iPhone in the EU)
1900 layoffs at Activision Blizzard, Zenimax, and Xbox
Tips and Picks
Tip of the week: Upgrade to passkeys
App pick of the week: Insync
RunAs Radio this week: Software Licensing with Mary Jo Foley
Brown liquor pick of the week: Dailuaine 16
Hosts: Leo Laporte, Paul Thurrott, and Richard Campbell
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