Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings in Q2 as gaming declines

Microsoft just posted the 2nd 4th of its 2026 fiscal fiscal results. The bundle shaper made $81.3 cardinal successful gross and a nett income of $30.9 cardinal during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and nett income has accrued by 23 percent.

The vacation 4th saw PC shipments turn unexpectedly amid an ongoing RAM shortage. Microsoft's end of Windows 10 support helped propulsion PC shipments up, but IDC revealed earlier this period that PC makers person besides been aggressively pulling guardant inventory to combat imaginable tariffs and ongoing planetary representation shortage.

Microsoft's Windows OEM and devices gross implicit this vacation play was up conscionable 1 …

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