Microsoft announces 1.3 billion Windows 10 users following earnings report Following Microsoft’s earnings call on Monday, the software company announced that it had added 300 million users in the last year. The company celebrated it had surpassed 1 billion users in March 2020 and the company revealed that it reached a new all-time high of 1.3 billion users. Microsoft credited the spike of demand to the growth of users purchasing larger-screen devices including laptops and desktop computers during the pandemic, which had a large demographic of users switching to work-from-home setups. In Microsoft’s earnings report for the quarter ending on March 31 2021, numbers were higher than analyst’s estimates. Revenue for Microsoft was $41.7 billion versus the estimated $41.03 billion and net income was $15.5 billion, up 44% YoY. Microsoft’s solid financial performance was driven by Office 365 and Azure cloud services revenue. Microsoft’s cloud solutions generated $17.7 billion in commercial cloud revenue, up 33% YoY.