Microsoft's cloud services is to help customers to be well prepared with the transition towards important changes in business and finance. With thousands of cloud developers, there are millions of customers in more than 40 countries are using the services of Microsoft cloud computing everyday. Ganesh Ladchumanopaskeran, head of IT, Microsoft Southeast Asia told Vietnam Investment Review that Microsoft strategy would help governments, businesses and users around the world to maximise the potential power that cloud computing brings to them. * Microsoft’s Techdays 2013 in Vietnam is themed “Powered on Cloud”. What would you highlight at this event? Yes, as you can see techdays has become the familiar and most-wanted IT day of the year in many countries in the world and in Vietnam. It is an occasion to introduce the latest IT technologies and solutions to enterprises, clients, IT experts, meanwhile it is also opportunity for IT developers, experts, users in IT … [Read more...] about Bản in : Microsoft cloud: Everything you need to know
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Microsoft revenue, profit misses estimates
Microsoft Corp reported results that fell short of analysts' expectations, showing its high-profile cloud business cannot quite make up for weakness in its core PC market. Two categories showed lower operating profits, led by what Microsoft calls its intelligent cloud division, which includes its Azure cloud-services business as well as traditional server software. Despite revenue at Azure more than doubling, operating profits at the division shrank 14 percent while revenue grew 3 percent. Continued weakness in the personal computing market hobbled demand for one-time licenses for some of its products, the company said. "We would have liked to have seen 7 to 9 percent growth," Dan Morgan, a portfolio manager at Synovus Trust who holds Microsoft shares, said of intelligent cloud revenue. "We're trying to validate this story that Microsoft is truly becoming a cloud company, and they're not going to be relying on the desktop computer." Revenue at the Redmond, Wash.-based software … [Read more...] about Microsoft revenue, profit misses estimates
Microsoft net profit slips despite record 2Q revenue
Microsoft on Thursday reported its net profit slipped despite record-high revenue in the last quarter on sales of computers and Kinect controllers for Xbox 360 consoles. The US technology titan made $6.63 billion in net profit on $19.95 billion in revenue in the quarter ending December 31. Net profit for the quarter was slightly below the $6.66 billion the firm made in the same period a year earlier even though revenue climbed nearly a billion dollars. "We are enthusiastic about the consumer response to our holiday lineup of products, including the launch of Kinect," said Microsoft chief financial officer Peter Klein. "The pace of business spending, combined with strong consumer demand, led to another quarter of operating margin expansion and solid earnings per share growth." Microsoft sold more than eight million gesture-sensing Kinect controllers for Xbox 360 videogame consoles in the 60 days after it hit the market in November, chief executive Steve Ballmer said early … [Read more...] about Microsoft net profit slips despite record 2Q revenue