{"id":610577,"date":"2026-07-29T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:18:11","slug":"xbox-revenue-drops-10-percent-as-microsofts-cloud-and-ai-business-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610577\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft\u2019s cloud and AI business surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription dipped 10 percent over the past few months. At the same time, Xbox hardware sales declined 13 percent, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/investor\/earnings\/FY-2026-Q4\/press-release-webcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft\u2019s fourth-quarter earnings report released<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">As Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/944138\/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-superintelligence-agi-openai-automation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ramps up efforts in AI<\/a>, its cloud business has pushed the company\u2019s overall revenue to $90 billion. Microsoft Cloud revenue soared 27 percent to $59.3 billion over the past few months, while revenue from its productivity business, which includes services like Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn, spiked 14 percent to $37.8 billion. Microsoft 365 Copilot also reached more than 30 million paid seats and Azure revenue hit more than $100 billion for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from content and services like its Game Pass subscription&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,7894,19,17,305,5,753,82,13031],"class_list":["post-610577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-gaming","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-xbox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117005353153670186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}