{"id":424079,"date":"2026-04-29T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424079\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:45:07","slug":"microsoft-reports-sinking-xbox-revenue-as-its-cloud-business-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/424079\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft\u2019s Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/Investor\/earnings\/FY-2026-Q3\/press-release-webcast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released on Wednesday<\/a>. Even though the rest of Microsoft\u2019s consumer-focused division took a dip, the company\u2019s cloud and productivity businesses continue to soar, driving the company toward $82.9 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In addition to an executive shuffle, Microsoft has only pushed further into AI in recent months, with the company reporting $54.5 billion in revenue from its cloud business, marking a 29 percent year over year increase. \u201cWe are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in the agentic computing era,\u201d Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in the press release. \u201cOur AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37 billion, up 123% year-over-year.\u201d Revenue earned by Azure and other cloud services went up 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft 365 Copilot saw growth as well, with paid seats jumping from 15 million in the previous quarter to 20 million. Microsoft has continued building out its productivity suite with new AI features, including the launch of \u201cvibe working\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/917328\/microsoft-agent-mode-vibe-working-office-word-excel-powerpoint\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">features across Excel, Word, and PowerPoint<\/a>. The company says Microsoft 365 consumer cloud revenue increased 33 percent during this quarter, while its commercial segment increased 19 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,1071,43,216,80],"class_list":["post-424079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}