How many phones did Microsoft sell last quarter? For a second consecutive quarter, Microsoft hasn’t published the answer to that question as part of its latest earnings report. But with the information that it has provided, we can at least get some idea of where its phone hardware business now stands.
On its 10-Q form submission to the SEC – published today alongside its Q2 FY2017 results – Microsoft said that during the last quarter “phone revenue decreased $878 million or 81% [year-over-year] driven by a reduction in volume of phones sold”.
As part of its earnings report for Q2 FY2015, Microsoft said that phone hardware revenue for that quarter was $2.284 billion. But when it published its quarterly results for Q2 FY2016 a year later, Microsoft said in its 10-Q submission to the SEC that phone revenue had “decreased $1.2 billion or 53%” year-over-year, pushing it down to somewhere in the region of $1.08 billion.
With its latest year-over-year decline of $878 million, that means that Microsoft’s phone revenue last quarter was roughly $200 million – quite a significant drop compared with two years ago. It also indicates that its phone hardware revenues fell by a third compared with the previous quarter (Q1 FY2017 / Q3 CY2016), when they stood at around $300 million.
