Strong Office 365 growth in Microsoft Cloud results

[Tony Redmond]

Microsoft’s FY17 Q2 results posted on January 26 boasted a 49% year-over-year growth in commercial Office 365 revenues, contributing to an annualized run rate for commercial cloud products that now “exceeds” $14 billion. The number of cloud users has grown again, underlying the continuing move of work to the Office 365 and Azure.

https://www.petri.com/microsoft-cloud-grows-again

[#2]

While the percentage might not seem as impressive as the triple digit ones we had for several subsequent quarters, the actual increase in terms of $$$ is very respectable. If they manage to keep this up a while longer, the 20bn mark will be surpassed ahead of schedule.

[#3]

Yeah, I wouldn't bet against Microsoft making the $20 billion mark by mid-2018...