Taken from Gaf, cause I'm lazy:

Microsoft recently announced a shake up in the company. Today they confirmed their reporting is changing.

They will change the reporting of their financial results to reflect the company’s strategy and ambitions to build best-in-class platforms and productivity services for a mobile-first, cloud-first world. Beginning in fiscal year 2016, the company will report revenue and operating income based on three operating segments:

Productivity and Business Processes
The Productivity and Business Processes segment includes results from Office and Office 365 for commercial and consumer customers, as well as Dynamics and Dynamics CRM Online.

Intelligent Cloud
The Intelligent Cloud segment includes results from public, private and hybrid server products and services such as Windows Server, SQL Server, System Center, Azure, and Enterprise Services.

More Personal Computing
The More Personal Computing segment includes results from licensing of the Windows operating system, devices such as Surface and phones, gaming including Xbox consoles, and search.


What this means is that Xbox has gone from it's own division over a decade ago to now being lumped into the same segment as Windows. That really shows how Microsoft has changed as a company to focus on Cloud and Office.

Just FYI, this doesn't change much in regards to Xbox. Just makes it incredibly harder to see how the Xbox business is doing on its own but that's nothing new.

http://news.microsoft.com/2015/09/28/microsoft-announces-changes-to-financial-reporting-structure-2/

(This is my opinion) So, yay they finally give OI on a segment basis, but booh Xbox success will be even more unreadable thanks to being put together with freaking Windows licensing.

How many of you want to bet Microsoft will launch a digital distribution platform for PC with the XBox name in less than a decade?

This is definitely going to make Xbox profits or lack thereof even harder to determine. Actually, this is pretty much the final nail in trying to determine Xbox profits, Windows is going to keep everything looking kosher.

No reason for concern, we'll still get "Soon(tm)(next 6-12 months) we will have shipped X amount of Xb1s" once per year

With the Xbox app in Windows 10 it kind of makes sense.

Well that basically makes it impossible to know how Xbox is doing. Oh well, at least we'll get combined shimpent numbers.

Xbone more profitable than PS4, confirmed... 😎

Guess they can now say Xbox one effectively has the highest install base of any console since its part of Windows. :)

If it would be cross-buy for PC and Xbox that would be very interesting indeed.

Nothing new here. Basically saying that instead of looking at column 3, you need to look at column 5. Instead of guessing the revenue of the items in column 3 - Xbox, now you guess the revenue of column 5 - Xbox.

So, we still won't really know.