back to article Microsoft bags more CASH – but profit's flat as Nadella waves axe

Microsoft posted solid yet unspectacular results for both the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2014 and the full fiscal year, even as investors braced for new CEO Satya Nadella to axe as many as 18,000 staffers. Revenues for the quarter beat analysts' estimates slightly at $23.38bn, a 17.5 per cent gain over the same period a year …

  1. Mark 85

    After reading the article, I'm thinking not bad even with the turmoil around Win8, et al. But investors expect "more" and set the bar appropriately. Since the major investors are either on the board or have made friends with the board people, Nadella's job now depends on that nickel a share what he intends to do about it. I almost feel sorry for him.... almost.

    1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

      I would feel sorry for him, except that he's continuously pushing Metro apps and subscription everything as the future. Both are bad for, well, everyone.

      Mobile first, cloud first, but customers, developers, partners and staff all come last. That's a bit bass ackwards.

      1. TheOtherHobbes

        MS has a believable if not very imaginative plan for enterprise, with Azure, O365, SQL, and the rest.

        It's not very interesting, and it's what everyone else is doing. But there's enough momentum in selling boring overpriced infrastructure to boring corporations to make it work for the forseeable.

        MS has no plan at all for devices and consumer software. There's an unholy mess of incompatible hardware, incompatible operating systems, incompatible goals, incandescent user hostility, inexplicable rhetorical farting, and incoherent non-planning.

        Unless Nadella can pull all of that together and/or reinvent MS as a company that has something unique to offer - don't hold your breath - MS is going to disappear from consumer-land entirely within ten years. Except maybe as a mouse and keyboard brand.

        1. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

          Enterprise and consumer are two of four markets. You - like bloody everyone - have completely neglected the commercial midmarket and the small biz markets. MS has no strategy there either...but it used to own those markets. Sad.

    2. Charlie Clark Silver badge

      Don't forget switching XP support off was supposed to give a huge boost to OS and Office revenues.

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