Satya Nadella recently shared a rare data point, said that annual revenue of Microsoft’s Cloud computing division topped $100 billion; but why it left some analysts ‘unhappy’
Microsoft’s cloud business recently crossed a major milestone, but the company still isn’t telling investors the full story, a report has said. CEO Satya Nadella revealed on an earnings call that Azure’s annual revenue has topped $100 billion for the first time – which is a rare disclosure from a company that has long kept its cloud numbers under wraps. Yet even this headline figure hasn’t been enough to satisfy analysts, who reportedly say Microsoft’s financial reporting remains far less transparent than its biggest rivals. Across three key pillars shaping the company’s AI future, its cloud business, its capital spending and its ties with OpenAI, Microsoft’s disclosures fall noticeably short of what shareholders would ideally want to see, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal.
