Windows, Surface and phones post revenue declines as Microsoft's MPC segment falls 17%

Microsoft yesterday reported declines in revenue for Windows, its Surface line of hardware and its smartphones, key components to the new More Personal Computing group that debuted its earnings with the September quarter.

Last month, Microsoft shuffled pieces of its wide-flung empire into three new reporting groups, an effort, the company said then, to better align financial reporting with CEO Satya Nadella's emphasis on the cloud, mobile and productivity platforms. One of the segments, More Personal Computing (MPC), includes Windows, Bing search revenue, Xbox Live and all of Microsoft's own hardware, from Surface and smartphones to the Xbox game console.

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