{"id":22433,"date":"2026-04-30T02:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/22433\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:32:30","slug":"microsoft-profits-jump-as-cloud-ai-drive-quarterly-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/22433\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft profits jump as cloud, AI drive quarterly growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ff59d6c4ad999670ddc4b275131bb946.jpeg\" alt=\"The Microsoft logo can be seen on the Microsoft Germany headquarters building in Munich. (zu dpa: \u00abMicrosoft profits jump as cloud, AI drive quarterly growth\u00bb) Sven Hoppe\/dpa\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"584\" width=\"800\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> The Microsoft logo can be seen on the Microsoft Germany headquarters building in Munich. (zu dpa: \u00abMicrosoft profits jump as cloud, AI drive quarterly growth\u00bb) Sven Hoppe\/dpa      <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">US tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong third-quarter results, driven by continued momentum in cloud and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Revenues for the quarter rose 18% year-over-year to $82.9 billion. Net income climbed to $31.78 billion, from $25.82 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $54.5 billion, up 29%, supported by robust demand across its platforms. Azure and other cloud services revenue surged 40%, while the Intelligent Cloud segment grew 30% to $34.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">In Productivity and Business Processes, which includes Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn, revenue rose 17% to $35 billion, driven by growth in Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. Meanwhile, the More Personal Computing segment, which covers Windows, devices and gaming, declined slightly by 1% to $13.2 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;We are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in the agentic computing era,&#8221; said Satya Nadella, chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft. &#8220;Our AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37 billion, up 123% year-over-year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;We delivered results that exceeded expectations across revenue, operating income, and earnings per share, reflecting strong execution and growing demand for the Microsoft Cloud,&#8221; said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Microsoft logo can be seen on the Microsoft Germany headquarters building in Munich. (zu dpa: \u00abMicrosoft profits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[420,7829,201,320,419,7828,2806],"class_list":{"0":"post-22433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-microsoft","8":"tag-azure","9":"tag-azure-ai","10":"tag-cloud","11":"tag-microsoft","12":"tag-microsoft-365","13":"tag-microsoft-ai","14":"tag-satya-nadella"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}