The US group presented its results on Tuesday evening.
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Berlin The mobile working trend has become a driving force for Microsoft. Sales in the past quarter at the end of March increased 18 percent to almost 49.4 billion dollars, as the world’s largest software company from the USA announced on Tuesday after the stock market closed. That’s more than analysts had expected. The cloud business even attracted 26 percent. Operating profit rose 19 percent to $20.4 billion.
Like Amazon and Google, Microsoft is benefiting from the fact that more and more employees, schoolchildren and students have been moving flexibly between the home office and the office since the Corona crisis. For this to work, both companies and private individuals need storage space and applications in the cloud that everyone can access from anywhere. The products and services often come from Microsoft – the home of Windows and Teams.