Cloud growth pushes Microsoft to $18.8 billion profit

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Despite a global return to the office, cloud remains a growth area
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Despite a global return to the office, cloud remains a growth area

Microsoft's cloud services, Windows and Office helped increase the company's revenues in last quarter, but gaming hardware growth was low

Significant growth in cloud pushed Microsoft to a better-than-expected profit of $18.8 billon in the quarter ended 31st December (Q2'22): up 21 per cent year-on-year (YoY). The Seattle-based sof...

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