Redmond-based Microsoft released its figures for FY23 Q2 with news that Teams hit more than 280 million monthly active users in the quarter.
It also revealed that over the last 12 months, 5 million PSTN seats were added to Teams Phone.
More of the tech giant's latest Microsoft Teams statistics were listed in the earnings call:
- Within Teams, the third-party apps with 10,000 users and above rose nearly 40 per cent year-over-year
- The number of Teams Rooms active devices went up by 70 per cent year-over-year to 500,000
- The figures for customers with more than 1,000 rooms doubled from last year
- Microsoft 365's subscription tally of 63 million consumer users is up 12 per cent year-over-year
Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated: "We continue to take share across every category, from collaboration, to chat, to meetings, to calling. Teams has emerged as a first-class platform. Apps from Adobe, Atlassian, Polly, ServiceNow, and Workday have each surpassed half a million active users."
"Novo Nordisk will deploy Teams Rooms to 5,000 meeting rooms globally in our largest deal.
"With Teams Premium, we’re meeting enterprise demand for advanced features like end-to-end encryption and AI-powered recaps. We’ve seen strong interest in the preview and will make it broadly available next month."
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Microsoft Bets on AI to Transform Cloud
The tech firm's results for the quarter ending December 31, 2022, revealed that revenues were up 2% to $52.7 billion.
In the earnings call, Microsoft put on a confident front by stating the second quarter results were driven by the strength of the cloud.
The Microsoft Cloud exceeded $27 billion in quarterly revenue, up 22% and 29% in constant currency. However, although Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud segment went up 18% in the quarter and its Azure services rose 31%, this compares to a drop in last year's Q2 figures of 26% and 46%, respectively.
The market responded well with a 5% increase in shares (NASDAQ, MSFT), buoyed by cloud business and AI plans and subsequent online hyperbole. However, cloud growth was down from last year.
Nadella stated: “The next major wave of computing is being born, as the Microsoft Cloud turns the world’s most advanced AI models into a new computing platform."
Repeating a mantra he started at Ignite last October, he said: “We are committed to helping our customers use our platforms and tools to do more with less today and innovate for the future in the new era of AI.”
Announcing a lucrative coup of potentially eye-watering proportions, he finally revealed more about Microsoft's special deal and investment in OpenAI, the originator of the much-discussed ChatGPT:
"We’re pleased to be their exclusive cloud provider and will deploy their models across our consumer and enterprise products as we continue to push state of the art in AI."
Fiscal Year 23 Q2 Focuses on Cloud
Meanwhile, the PC division faltered, with sales of PCs falling and Windows OEM — sales of operating systems to hardware manufacturers — falling 39%. Revenue in Personal Computing overall was $14.2 billion, down by 19% from last year.
The software firm incurred $1.2 billion in expenses during the quarter related to the decision made just a few days ago to lay off 10,000 employees, refresh its hardware lineup and consolidate leasing.
