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Moving on, Microsoft’s biggest revenue increases continue to come from its major cloud investments.

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Microsoft is all-in on AI, as evidenced by its recent event.

Finally, the consumer focused More Personal Computing division actually saw a year-over-year increase this quarter, although mild.

Search and news advertising revenue also went up by 10% (9% in constant currency).

The only major decrease in revenue Microsoft saw this fiscal quarter was in Devices, which includesSurfaceand Xbox consoles.

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Microsoft is all-in on AI, as evidenced by its recent event.

Revenue fell by 22% year-over-year, continuing the trend we’ve seen in recent quarters.

We may see this decrease shrink next quarter with therelease of new Surface devices.

Still, the Devices category has seen year-over-year decreases of between 20-39% for the last four quarters.

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Microsoft just announced some new Surface devices which may help that deficit dwindle in the next quarter.

Overall, cloud is king and Windows is queen (but Xbox is important, too).

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