Microsoft has updated its quarterly revenue guidance to offer more precise insights into its cloud infrastructure business. Microsoft has reorganized its segments, moving key services to align Azure's revenue with consumption, and projects 33% revenue growth for Azure in the upcoming quarter. The changes complicate comparisons with competitors like Amazon’s AWS and may make it harder for investors to gauge the health of Microsoft's core Office subscriptions. Microsoft maintains its overall revenue forecast for the quarter.
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00:00It's Benzinga, and here's what's on the block.
00:02Microsoft has updated its quarterly revenue guidance
00:05to offer more precise insights
00:07into its cloud infrastructure business.
00:09Microsoft has reorganized its segments,
00:11moving key services to align Azure's revenue
00:13with consumption, and projects 33% revenue growth
00:16for Azure in the upcoming quarter.
00:18The changes complicate comparisons
00:20with competitors like Amazon's AWS,
00:22and may make it harder for investors
00:24to gauge the health of Microsoft's
00:25core office subscriptions.
00:27Microsoft maintains its overall revenue forecast
00:30for the quarter.
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