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icantthinkofone on July 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Cloud Growth Drives Strong Fourth-Quarte...

Being down 7% is never alright. You can make all the excuses you want but profit and revenue is down no matter how you word it or what the reasons are.

cnaut on July 23, 2014 [–]

Revenue is actually up

icantthinkofone on July 23, 2014 | [–]

No. It was down one or two billion compared to last year.

cnaut on July 23, 2014 | | [–]

I think you are confusing revenue and profit. The profit was down but that was mostly due to the acquisition of Nokia

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