It's Wednesday, January 27th.

Welcome to Market Foolery.

I'm Chris Hill with me today.

Mr. Bill Barker.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me.

We've got earnings. We've got restaurant earnings, we've got

entertainment earnings. We're going to start with the behemoth that is

Microsoft. Second quarter revenue for Microsoft grew 17% and once again, sorry to sound like a broken record, but every quarter we say it because it's true, the Azure Cloud business, getting getting it done and shares of Microsoft up this morning and hitting a new high.

Yeah and Azure getting it done even a little bit better than one might have hoped for as the growth.

You point out this is the sort of lead every month or every quarter as to Azure's growth but it's been trending down from very very

high levels and up 50% year over year is a little bit better than the last two

quarters which are 47% and 48%.

So even if it were a trend that it had over the last couple of years and

only growing it like 45%, you'd still be thrilled and yet it's growing even better than that.

That's the lead, but you just look up and down the categories and it's just a sea of green in terms of growth division across division.

Yeah, I mean this is one of those quarters where it's like it's hard to see anything and just be like,

eh, that's, you know, they got to work on that.

Search ads only up 2%, but that was better than down down 10% and 18% of the previous two quarters.

Windows OEM only up 1%.

Yeah, everything was up and most of the divisions were up well more than that

so you know all adds up to I think 17% total revenue growth and 33, 34% net earnings growth.

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