{"id":17167,"date":"2019-07-22T18:56:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/in-spite-of-slowing-growth-microsoft-has-been-flexing-its-cloud-muscles.html"},"modified":"2019-07-22T18:56:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T18:56:13","slug":"in-spite-of-slowing-growth-microsoft-has-been-flexing-its-cloud-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/in-spite-of-slowing-growth-microsoft-has-been-flexing-its-cloud-muscles.html","title":{"rendered":"In spite of slowing growth, Microsoft has been flexing its cloud muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Microsoft reported<\/span> its FY19, Q4 earnings<\/a>\u00a0last week, the numbers were mostly positive, but as we pointed out, Azure earnings growth has stalled<\/a>. Productivity and business, which includes Office 365, has also mostly flattened out. But slowing growth is not always as bad as it may seem. In fact, it\u2019s an inevitability that once you start to reach Microsoft\u2019s market maturity, it gets harder to maintain large growth numbers.<\/p>\n

That said, AWS launched the first cloud infrastructure service<\/a>, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud in August, 2006. Microsoft came much later to the cloud, launching Azure in February, 2010, but so were other established companies in Microsoft\u2019s <\/a> market share rearview. What did it do differently to achieve this success that the companies chasing it \u2014 Google, IBM and Oracle \u2014 failed to do? It\u2019s a key question.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some numbers<\/h2>\n

For starters, let\u2019s look at the most numbers for Productivity Business Processes this year. This category includes all of its commercial and consumer SaaS products including Office 365 commercial and consumer, Dynamics 365, LinkedIn and others. The percentage growth started FY19 at 19% but ended at 14%<\/p>\n

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When you look at just Office365 commercial earnings growth, it started at 36% and dropped down to 31% by Q4.<\/p>\n

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