Surface sales sag and Windows Phones fade, as Microsoft's hardware business takes a hit
(PCWorld)

Four little words from Microsoft CFO Amy Hood describe the tragic state of Microsoft`s mobile experiment: `negligible revenue from phones.`Phone sales for the current quarter were bad, falling $730 million from the same period a year ago, Microsoft executives said Thursday during the company`s second-quarter earnings call. But they can`t fall much further: Hood was referring to a forecast of the current quarter ending in June, when sales of all Microsoft-branded phones will apparently trickle off into oblivion.Microsoft also said it suffered lower-than-expected sales of Surface Pro products, with an overall drop of 26 percent in Surface revenue. Third-party hardware partners appear to be doing better, however: Microsoft said that sales of its Windows 10 Pro operating systems grew by 10 percent, as more PC vendors were able to sell premium PCs that used Microsoft`s more advanced operating system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here