{"id":51724,"date":"2020-07-23T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2669114"},"modified":"2020-07-23T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:35:00","slug":"microsofts-xbox-and-surface-business-keep-growing-amid-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/microsofts-xbox-and-surface-business-keep-growing-amid-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and Surface business keep growing amid the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-title_mark@tp+ bc-gray-1 col-10-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"t-d7@m- t-d4@tp t-d3-b@tl t-d2@d mt-15 mt-25@tp c-gray-3 c-gray-6@m-\">And of course, its cloud business continues to boom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"engadget-article-meta-bar\" class=\"o-meta_bar@tl+          mt-35 mt-20@m-\" data-ylk=\"sec:articlemetabar;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=95&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-images%2F2020-07%2F50a3baf0-cc57-11ea-b2fa-4d8581f84efb&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=26b9247e6193ce4a6ba2740d7e0935b171f51f73\" alt=\"LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - 2020\/07\/03: Microsoft logo seen at one of their stores.\nMicrosoft has said it will keep all of its retail locations closed permanently, including London&#039;s Flagship store in Oxford Circus which opened just one year ago. The company says it will reimagine some of its spaces that serve its customers, including the Microsoft Experience Centre in London. (Photo by Keith Mayhew\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\">\n<div id=\"engadget-post-contents\" class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- o-subtle_divider\" data-ylk=\"sec:postcontents;slk:Microsoft%27s%20Xbox%20and%20Surface%20business%20keep%20growing%20amid%20the%20pandemic;elm:link;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1\">\n<p>Just like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-q32020-earnings-covid-19-203514769.html\">Microsoft&rsquo;s previous quarter<\/a>, the software giant isn&rsquo;t taking much of a hit from the coronavirus epidemic. Amid strong revenues of $38 billion (up 13 percent from last year), the company&rsquo;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Investor\/earnings\/FY-2020-Q4\/press-release-webcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Q4 earnings report<\/a>&nbsp;reveal that its Xbox content and services business has increased by 65 percent from a year ago. Surface sales, meanwhile, jumped up by 28 percent, reaching $1.7 billion. Those figures aren&rsquo;t too surprising, given the increasing demand for PCs to manage work and school at home, as well as games to keep us all sane as we&rsquo;re trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud business is doing better than ever, with revenues of $13.4 billion. That&rsquo;s a 17 percent increase from last year, which also includes a 47 percent revenue jump for its Azure cloud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"engadget-post-continued-contents\" class=\"o-article_block pb-15 pb-5@m- mt-n35 mt-n25@m mt-n15@s\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"full-width@tp- grid@tl+__cell col-8-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"article-text c-gray-1 no-review\">\n<p>&ldquo;The company is still benefiting from businesses, governments and schools reacting to the crisis and I think that was reflected in the numbers,&rdquo; analyst Patrick Moorehead said in a statement. He added, &ldquo;While I am not yet concerned with the declining Azure numbers as the revenue base is growing, it&#8217;s something to keep our eyes on. I can imagine, given the pandemic, how difficult full digital transformations would be without having employees at work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-q32020-earnings-covid-19-203514769.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-q32020-earnings-covid-19-203514769.html<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Devindra Hardawar<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Devindra Hardawar<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo.png\" alt=\"\">And of course, its cloud business continues to boom. Just like&nbsp;Microsoft&rsquo;s previous quarter, the software giant isn&rsquo;t taking much of a hit from the coronavirus epidemic. Amid strong revenues of $38 billion (up 13 percent from last year), the company&rsquo;s&nbsp;Q4 earnings report&nbsp;reveal that its Xbox content and services business has increased by 65 percent from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/23\/microsofts-xbox-and-surface-business-keep-growing-amid-the-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span>Microsoft&rsquo;s Xbox and Surface business keep growing amid the pandemic<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/microsofts-xbox-and-surface-business-keep-growing-amid-the-pandemic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and Surface business keep growing amid the pandemic - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/23\/microsofts-xbox-and-surface-business-keep-growing-amid-the-pandemic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and Surface business keep growing amid the pandemic - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"And of course, its cloud business continues to boom. 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