back to article Microsoft: Cloud and Windows OEM sales up, but Surface? No, not even during WFH boom

Even a "stronger than expected" PC market with unprecedented demand from homebound workers couldn't lift Surface revenues in Microsoft's first quarter for fiscal 2022 - in an otherwise stellar quarter for the firm. Windows OEM revenue increased by 10 per cent – driven, as CFO Amy Hood said in an analysts' call, "by a stronger …

  1. Outski
    WTF?

    Advance sales booking?

    Are MS booking sales in advance? Title and first para have revenue figures for Q1 2022, which normally doesn't finish for another five and a bit months.

    1. JudeK (Written by Reg staff)

      Re: Advance sales booking?

      This is sales for the quarter ended September 30, 2021 (that's the first three months of fiscal 2022 for Microsoft.)

      1. Outski

        Re: Advance sales booking?

        OK, fair enough, but maybe MS's fiscal year could've been called out in the article for the avoidance of confusion

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Whispers

    ... I quite like Surfaces ...

    1. Franco

      Re: Whispers

      They are nice devices, had a gen 1 Pro, a Book 1 and now a Book 2 and have used various others at work as well. Not cheap though.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Whispers

      Microsoft Surfaces are the best Linux tablets around, in fact I'm typing this on a Surface Pro 3 using KDE/Ubuntu (5.13.13-surface).

  3. Alex Stuart

    They are nice, premium quality devices, but always struck me as missing a big enough target market.

    Development work - clearly not aimed at that with the trendy but dysfunctional half-height arrow keys and lack of # key etc.

    Professional multimedia - screen's too small

    Casual touchscreen/multimedia use - just get a much cheaper Android tablet

    Macbook crowd - already have Macbooks, not interested

    As an MS-only member of the first category I wanted one until seeing the keyboard and cost - ended up getting a PCSpecialist laptop with full keyboard and normal size keys (very difficult to find these days) for 1/3 the price.

  4. elsergiovolador Silver badge

    Trend

    claim that "Windows 11 is also the most open platform."

    Gaslighting seems to be quite popular communication strategy these days. It's quite effective - most people don't know what "open platform" means, but it sounds cool. Who cares it is a lie. You can always call anyone who will try to point it out a conspiracy theorist.

    1. Terry 6 Silver badge

      Re: Trend

      "Open platform" is one of the "Open to interpretation" class of statement. It has no authoritative definition* that couldn't be refuted other by something diametrically opposed ( and proven to be which would also be a matter of interpretation). And further "The most open platform" is an unquantifiable statement.

      aka "Weasel words",

      -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

      *Wikipaedia

      In computing, an open platform describes a software system which is based on open standards, such as published and fully documented external application programming interfaces (API) that allow using the software to function in other ways than the original programmer intended, without requiring modification of the source code.

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