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Loss contingency damages paid value including post judgment interest.

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Number of businesses.

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Amount of revenue recognized that was previously included in balance of obligation to transfer good or service to customer for which consideration from customer has been received or is due.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The cash inflow associated with the sale or collection of receivables arising from the financing of goods and services.

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Amount of transaction price allocated to performance obligation that has not been recognized as revenue.

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BASIS OF PRESENTATION, RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS AND OTHER Narrative (Details) $ in Millions		3 Months Ended			9 Months Ended
	Jun. 08, 2022 Subsidiary	Feb. 28, 2023 USD ($)	Aug. 31, 2022	Feb. 28, 2022 USD ($)	Feb. 28, 2023 USD ($) Business	Feb. 28, 2022 USD ($)
New Accounting Pronouncements Or Change In Accounting Principle [Line Items]
Litigation related charges						$ 4,700
Number of owned wholly subsidiaries \| Subsidiary	1
Number of businesses \| Business					3
Decrease in total operating expense due to change in accounting estimate		$ 101			$ 346
Contract with Customer, Asset and Liability [Abstract]
Revenues recognized included in opening deferred revenues balances					7,700	8,100
Revenue, Performance Obligation [Abstract]
Remaining performance obligation, amount		62,300			62,300
Sales of Financing Receivables [Abstract]
Sales of financing receivables		$ 344		$ 352	$ 1,500	$ 1,400
Servers [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
New Accounting Pronouncements Or Change In Accounting Principle [Line Items]
Useful life of asset			4 years
Servers [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
New Accounting Pronouncements Or Change In Accounting Principle [Line Items]
Useful life of asset			5 years