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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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