And I just want to reiterate how important that is. MARK MOERDLER, Bernstein Research:  That makes sense. That’s why we are building the full, modern technology stack – powered by cloud and AI and underpinned by security and compliance – to help every organization digitally transform. Business continuity obviously is a board-level discussion everywhere. Search revenue ex TAC increased 6 percent and 7 percent in constant currency, below expectations, primarily driven by lower Bing volume. So, that’s sort of the second element.

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It’s usage. That’s why we announced an ambitious new sustainability commitment. Xbox Game Pass subscribers more than doubled this quarter.

Office commercial revenue grew 16 percent and 18 percent in constant currency with roughly 3 points of on-premises benefit, primarily from transactional strength in Japan.

In AI, we’re seeing rapid adoption across our comprehensive portfolio of AI tools, infrastructure and services.

And in Gaming, we expect revenue growth in the high teens with continued strong user engagement across the platform.

So, you can see that power of our stack. That wraps up the Q&A portion of today’s earnings call.

HEATHER BELLINI, Goldman Sachs:  Very helpful, thank you.

will Now let’s move to our next quarter outlook. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019, in response to the TCJA and recently issued regulations, we transferred certain intangible properties held by our foreign subsidiaries to the United States and Ireland.  Â. BRAD ZELNICK, Credit Suisse:  Thank you. However, growth will be impacted by a decline of approximately 30 percent in our on-premises business, driven by the transactional weakness in small and medium businesses noted earlier. Take care. The remaining 50 percent, which will be recognized beyond the next 12 months, increased 25 percent year-over-year, highlighting the growing long-term customer commitment to our cloud platform. Segment gross margin dollars increased 18 percent and 20 percent in constant currency and gross margin percentage increased 7 points year over year due to higher margin sales mix. Our next question comes from Mark Moerdler with Bernstein Research. General Motors, for example, is using Azure Active Directory to secure interactions between its employees, dealers, and customers. Operator, we’ll take our last question now, please.

In Enterprise Services, we expect revenue growth to be slightly higher than last quarter. to And our $1 billion Climate Innovation Fund will accelerate the development of carbon reduction and removal technologies. We will continue to innovate alongside customers with profitable, sustainable solutions that expand their opportunity.  protects your privacy online and makes it easier to find information at work with Microsoft Search. GREG MOSKOWITZ, Mizuho:  Thank you very much for taking the question, and I have one for Satya. We continue to innovate across our Talent portfolio – including Talent Solutions, Talent Insights, Glint and LinkedIn Learning – to help organizations attract, retain, and develop the best talent. LinkedIn revenue increased 10 percent and 11 percent in constant currency as a weak job market materially impacted annual bookings in our Talent Solutions business even as usage remained high. Now to More Personal Computing.

SATYA NADELLA:  Sure.  Thanks, Mark, for the question.  I think, overall, in terms of the Azure momentum, it's sort of the thing that we've seen even in the previous quarters, which is we have a stack that is, from infrastructure to the PaaS services, that's fairly differentiated.  I mean, I went through some of the things that we even announced at our Ignite conference.Â, Take something like Azure Arc.  The fact that we have a control plane for hybrid computing that is multi-cloud, multi-edge, that's a pretty differentiated aspect of it.  And the data side, both on the transactions on the OLTP side, as well as on the analytic side, we now have cloud-native databases, and Azure Synapse I think is a very competitive product.  So, that's what you see play out in terms of a customer adoption and the growth there.Â. People are turning to Windows PCs more than ever, with minutes spent in Windows 10 up more than 55 percent year-over-year. Thank you, Satya, and good afternoon everyone. or even create a virtual agent – all with no coding experience. So, both of those are secular tailwinds, but no one can take away from sort of the fact that GDP is going to be negative. Customer commitment to our cloud continues to grow. You have played a key role in our success. And do we feel like we still have real to add additional cloud? So, one of the things that we’re seeing, in fact, is some acceleration even of getting rid of the old and getting to the efficient frontier so that then they can recover faster. And, we continue to invest in robotic process automation. Office Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased $394 million or 5%, on a strong prior year comparable. In Surface, we expect revenue growth in the low single digits as we work through the execution challenges in the consumer segment.

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Thank you again. "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 … I've also seen some tweets about layoffs happening in npm, which Microsoft acquired in March 2020. So, we don’t in some sense discriminate between the two. Thank you for joining us, and we look forward to speaking to all of you soon.