Microsoft milestone: Games top Windows for first time, with addition of Activision Blizzard

Xbox is bigger than Windows.Revenue from Microsoft’s video-game business surpassed its Windows division for the first time in the December quarter, with a big boost from the company’s $69 billion acquisition of game publisher Activision Blizzard. That’s one of the takeaways from numbers included in Microsoft’s 10-Q filing with the SEC in conjunction with its earnings report Tuesday afternoon for the second quarter of its 2024 fiscal year: Gaming revenue increased 50% to $7.1 billion, which included more t ...