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Microsoft Hits $1 Trillion in All-Time Revenue, and With More Profit than Apple

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Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during a keynote session at the Microsoft Developers Build Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.

They also beat Apple in cumulative profits

Last quarter, Microsoft hit a major milestone: $1 trillion in all-time cumulative revenue reports technology consultant Jeff Reifman.

He noticed the milestone while researching a post about Microsoft’s tax breaks in the state of Washington.

Microsoft hit the milestone in its last quarter, according to the spreadsheet posted by Reifman.

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Apple hit $1 trillion in revenue earlier, in 2015, his research shows.

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On the other hand, when it comes to profits, Microsoft has come out slightly ahead of Apple: $261.6 billion in cumulative profits for Apple, and slightly more, $265.2 billion for Microsoft.

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Amazon and Google, younger companies than Microsoft and Apple, have not yet hit the $1 trillion revenue mark, but are about half-way there, Reifman reports. Amazon, for instance, came in at $545 billion in all time revenue but only $3.31 billion in profit. (Amazon has famously not earned significant profits for most of its existence.)

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As for Google, Reifman’s research shows it has so far earned $417.3 billion in all-time revenue with $96.3 billion, cumulatively, in profit.

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Microsoft declined comment.

This article originally appeared on Business Insider

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