Earnings Release FY22 Q2

Intelligent Cloud

Revenue increased $3.7 billion or 26%.

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased $3.6 billion or 29% driven by Azure and other cloud services. Azure and other cloud services revenue grew 46% driven by growth in our consumption-based services. Server products revenue increased 6% driven by hybrid solutions, including Windows Server and SQL Server running in multi-cloud environments.

• Enterprise Services revenue increased $128 million or 8% driven by growth in Enterprise Support Services and Microsoft Consulting Services.

Operating income increased $1.7 billion or 26%.

• Gross margin increased $2.3 billion or 21% driven by growth in Azure and other cloud services. Gross margin percentage decreased. Excluding the impact of the change in accounting estimate, gross margin percentage increased slightly driven by improvement in Azure and other cloud services, offset in part by sales mix shift to Azure and other cloud services.

• Operating expenses increased $569 million or 14% driven by investments in Azure and other cloud services.

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