Productivity and Business Processes

Revenue increased $3.1 billion or 12%.

• Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased $2.4 billion or 13%. Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud revenue grew 15% with seat growth of 8% driven by small and medium business and frontline worker offerings, as well as growth in revenue per user. Microsoft 365 Commercial products revenue grew 2% driven by the on-premises components of Microsoft 365 suite sales, offset in part by continued shift from Office Commercial products to Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud.

• Microsoft 365 Consumer products and cloud services revenue increased $84 million or 5%. Microsoft 365 Consumer cloud revenue grew 6% with Microsoft 365 Consumer subscriber growth of 10% to 84.4 million.

• LinkedIn revenue increased $379 million or 10% driven by growth across all lines of business – Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Premium Subscriptions, and Sales Solutions.

• Dynamics products and cloud services revenue increased $223 million or 14% driven by growth in Dynamics 365, offset in part by a decline in Dynamics on-premises products. Dynamics 365 revenue grew 18% driven by growth across all workloads.

Operating income increased $2.2 billion or 16%.

• Gross margin increased $2.3 billion or 11% driven by growth in Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud. Gross margin percentage decreased slightly driven by scaling our AI infrastructure.

• Operating expenses increased $101 million or 2% primarily driven by investments in commercial sales and cloud engineering.