Microsoft earnings will look funky — but an elusive number is finally arriving

Microsoft earnings will look funky — but an elusive number is finally arriving Microsoft earnings will look funky — but an elusive number is finally arriving Microsoft is about to pull back the curtain on Azure revenue, giving investors a better understanding of the cloud business Microsoft forecast Azure revenue to grow between 44% and 45% in constant currency during its fiscal first quarter. Microsoft’s earnings report on Wednesday will finally provide a key metric that Wall Street has sought for more than a decade — but the rest of the release could look a little strange. will provide quarterly dollar revenue figures specifically for its cloud-computing platform Azure — something that it has never done before. In a September presentation, the company said that the impact of artificial intelligence on technology and business necessitated this reporting change for increased transparency.

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