Dell's server growth was driven by its new, 12th-Generation line, leadership in hyper-scale infrastructure solutions and an increase in customer adoption of cloud solutions for their IT requirements.

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Business software sales grew 7%, server and tools revenues grew 12%, and XBox-driven entertainment and devices business grew 30% over the year ago period.

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