It also said that Dynamics 365 revenue, which increased by 81 percent, drove the total. Okay, cloud-based 365, which includes ERP and CRM, would have had not much to compare against a year earlier. Dynamics is part of the Productivity and Business Processes group, which reported revenue of $7.96 billion, an increase of 22 percent from $6.5 billion in last year's corresponding. LinkedIn, which was purchased in December, contributed $975 million for the three months, primarily from its Talent Solutions business. That means it contributed a substantial amount of the $1.6-billion increase in Microsoft's total revenue. The company bills LinkedIn as likely to increase revenue of Office 365, and Dynamics 365, as well as LinkedIn itself.
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Dynamics revenue increased by 10 percent in Microsoft's third quarter ended March 31. The company said that was 11 percent in constant currency. In its SEC filing recently, Microsoft did not provide actual revenue figures. Nor did it publish the kind of figures that allowed us to calculate actual revenue for the second quarter.
