According to data, consumers are gradually adapting to Windows 11, but not as swiftly as they did with Windows 10 when it came out. Organisations on the other hand are migrating much faster.
Oddly, businesses that don’t like change or migrations are adopting Windows 11 faster than before, according to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s comments during the company’s Q3 2022 earnings call. He said that corporations were adopting Windows 11 quicker than past versions.
That’s just one highlight from Microsoft’s extraordinarily positive earnings report, which showed sales of $49.4 billion (up 18% year over year) and net income of $16.7 billion (up 8% year over year).
Cloud is still the growth engine
Income from consumer and commercial Office products climbed by 11% and 12%, respectively; revenue from Xbox content and services rose by 4%; revenue from Surface hardware rose by 13%, and revenue from LinkedIn grew by 34%.
However, Microsoft’s cloud business continues to be the most critical engine of growth, with sales up 26% year over year to hit $19.1 billion. Azure cloud computing services have played a significant role in this expansion.
We have to hypothesize, given that Nadella did not go into specifics on how quickly Windows 11 is being embraced in companies or what is driving that adoption.
Businesses were inadvertently ready for it
Many of Microsoft’s safety requirement specifications for Windows 11 were developed with businesses in mind. Many of them (such as Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 compatibility) were already implemented and utilized more often in business PCs than in consumer models. In terms of how it distributes and administers the operating system, Windows 11 is comparable to Windows 10.
Microsoft’s Q3 earnings release is the latest in a long line of solid results, and the firm expects even more significant growth in the fourth quarter. Microsoft expects to generate between $52.4 billion and $53.2 billion in sales in Q4 2022, up 13 to 15% from the $46.2 billion it collected in Q4 2021.
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