REDMOND, Washington — Microsoft Corp. announced the results for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, highlighted by $33.1 billion in revenue.

“The world’s leading companies are choosing our cloud to build their digital capability,” said Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft. “We are accelerating our innovation across the entire tech stack to deliver new value for customers and investing in large and growing markets with expansive opportunity.”

Microsoft returned $7.9 billion to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020, an increase of 28% compared to the first quarter of fiscal year 2019.

“It was a strong start to the fiscal year with our commercial cloud generating $11.6 billion in revenue for the quarter, up 36% year over year,” said Amy Hood, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Microsoft.

Read the full Microsoft’s Q1 Earnings Release here: https://t.co/ZOqvjce79t
Note about Forward-Looking Statements in earnings tweets: https://t.co/4wiTg498Mc

— Microsoft (@Microsoft) October 23, 2019