Microsoft: You're not out of love with cloud, you're just 'optimizing' it for a bit

Microsoft has posted modest growth for the quarter ended December 31, 2022, with its consumer-centric products recording marked revenue dips. Quarterly revenue of $52.7 billion was a two percent year on year increase, and produced $16.4 billion of GAAP net income – a 12 point drop. Nasty numbers from Satya Nadella's software- …

[MatthewSt]

Partners

For a change, the partners are being very proactive and useful with this. Had a half hour call with ours at the start of the pandemic and came out of the call spending 20% less a year due to refining licenses and committing to spend on certain things.

No change to what we were running, and no upsell!

[Ken Moorhouse]

we are now seeing them optimize that spend

We are now seeing them looking at the bills they receive and thinking SSSSSHHHHIIIIITTTT!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Looks like MS have also optimised their cloud this morning

No Teams meetings to ruin my day today.

I guess that's what happens when you fire 10,000 people in one go, you lose people who know how to fix things.

[fandom]

Re: Looks like MS have also optimised their cloud this morning

Absolutely, after all, who had ever heard of a Microsoft product failing before today?

[elsergiovolador]

Bear

although it's down $5 billion over six months, for unspecified reasons.

They are probably bribing employees to continue to use Teams.

[3arn0wl]

OUTAGE!

How can anyone "be in love" with a cloud provider... with an outage. Okay, so it's rare, but it happens... and that's too often for some companies to rely on.

This is the clouds' Achilles heel.

[VincentLondon]

Contradictory statements?

So he says this;

"... the imminent debut of Teams Premium that will shift some existing Teams features into a new and more expensive pricing tier and presumably grow revenue.""

Followed by this;

"Nadella emphasized, as he did in Microsoft's previous results announcement, that securing customer loyalty is on the agenda. Or as he put it, "helping them realize more value from their tech spend and building long-term loyalty and share position."

Doesn't one contradict the other?

[Ken Moorhouse]

Re: Contradictory statements?

"Nadella emphasized, as he did in Microsoft's previous results announcement, that locking customers in is on the agenda.

Does that sound better?

[Anonymous Coward]

Optimizing

If by optimizing he means migrated to Nextcloud, then he's right on the money.