End of the PC market? Microsoft field transferred to the cloud to support a profit

Twilight in the personal computer market, Microsoft is ((US-MSFT)) development of cloud just in time. According to Gartner figures, 2015 4th quarter PC sales dropped by 8.3%, investors may think that this is bad news for Microsoft, but the company's cloud support, safe and secure.

The CNNMoney reported, while Windows software and mobile phone sales were down, the strong dollar is not conducive to sales of Microsoft products in the world, Microsoft 4th quarter EPS 78 cents a share, better than market expectations, after-hours trading was up by more than 8%.

Microsoft 4th-quarter revenue of $ 25.7 billion, 2% compared a year earlier, but still beat analyst expectations, and if the dollar exchange rate, revenue growth should be 3%; $ 1.9 billion of which was Windows 10, Halo 5 related deferred income.

Microsoft 2015 annual profit of $ 6.3 billion, representing an 8% growth over the same period last year, mainly from the cloud enterprise revenue growth; the cloud 2015 annual revenue of US $ 6.3 billion in 2014, representing a growth of 5%, offsetting falling sales of Windows software 5%. However Windows software revenue decline has fallen by 2014 13% improved, and Windows 10 performance is poor, has 200 million computers in use since its launch. Win 10 is based on the type of free updates launching, it jacked up the downloads only, and not much help on PC sales.

Microsoft Office 365 services in 2015 a significant growth, subscribers to 20.6 million people, representing a sharp growth in 2014 124%. This annual fee subscription service, giving users the right to update your Office software, and do not need to spend money to buy a new version every few years.

Microsoft to compete with Apple's laptop sales Surface is also good, launched last 4th quarter of higher order versions of popular with consumers, Surface 2015 annual sales of $ 1.4 billion in 2014, representing a growth of 29%.