[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]by Florian Zandt, [/box]
Microsoft‘s second fiscal quarter 2022 has proven to be the company’s most successful since the start of the pandemic. Overall, the tech giant generated $51.7 billion in revenue and a net income of $18.8 billion between October 2021 and January 2022. This can in no small part be attributed to the continued demand for corporate IT and traditional software offerings, as our chart shows.
Continuing an ongoing trend over the last months, the Server and Office segments made up roughly 53 percent of the tech giant’s Q2 2022 revenue. Cloud technology like Azure, Office 365 Commercial and commercial portions of LinkedIn turned out to be a huge business driver in particular, generating $22 billion in the second fiscal quarter of 2022 according to official company filings. While the tech firm has recently made headlines with its planned acquisition of beleaguered game publisher Activision Blizzard King for a record-breaking $69 billion, Microsoft’s efforts to consolidate its standings in the video game world aren’t evident from the numbers alone. Its gaming segment did manage to come close to Windows revenues between October 2020 and January 2021 due to the launch of its new console generation, but the gap between the earnings generated by its gaming and other endeavors grew again throughout 2021. The record number of $5.4 billion in the past quarter might be attributable to the continued growth of Xbox Game Pass due to the release of the highly anticipated new Halo game via the subscription service on December 8. According to CEO Satya Nadella in an earnings call to investors, 20 million people played Halo Infinite, making it the biggest launch of the franchise to date.
Even though Microsoft, like many Big Tech corporations, saw a decline of roughly 14 percent from its three-month high in November 2021, its market cap still stands at $2.1 trillion, dwarfed only by Apple with a market valuation of $2.6 trillion. With demand for cloud-based solutions in the workplace and at home rising at a steady pace and adoption rates increasing, the company might be well on track for another record year of revenues in 2022.
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