Steve Ballmer Calls BS On Microsoft Cloud Revenue Numbers, Says Universal Windows 10 Apps Won’t Work

Grazed from HotHardware. Author: Brandon Hill.

It’s been nearly two years since Satya Nadella swooped into replace longtime Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer later resigned from Microsoft’s Board of Directors in August 2014 and has kept a relatively low [tech] profile since then. His most recent commentary about his former company was rather flattering, with Ballmer commenting in October, "Nobody else is really trying to compete with [Apple] anymore, really, seriously, in hardware. If there’s going to be any competition for Apple, it’ll come from Microsoft – and I believe that."

This week, Ballmer once again had some words to say about Microsoft, and this time he wasn’t so kind. At Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting held yesterday, Ballmer, Microsoft’s largest shareholder, took issue with Microsoft’s failure to disclose its profit margins and sales figures for its cloud services and hardware business…

“It’s sort of a key metric — if they talk about it as key to the company, they should report it,” said Ballmer. Microsoft has embraced a “Cloud First” strategy with a heavy emphasis on subscriptions services like Office 365 and OneDrive along with its Azure cloud computing platform and “Windows as a Service.” As Ballmer rightfully points out, it would be nice to know exactly how well Microsoft’s cloud business is doing nearly two years after Nadella charted a new path for the company…

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