Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings - USD ($) shares in Millions, $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2018	Jan. 31, 2017
Net revenue:
Products	$ 4,860	$ 4,194
Services	2,703	2,615
Financing income	111	93
Total net revenue	7,674	6,902
Costs and expenses:
Cost of products	3,593	2,926
Cost of services	1,830	1,697
Financing interest	68	66
Research and development	388	356
Selling, general and administrative	1,202	1,204
Amortization of intangible assets	78	66
Restructuring charges	3	83
Transformation costs	245	0
Acquisition and other related charges	30	44
Separation costs	(24)	11
Defined benefit plan settlement charges and remeasurement (benefit)	0	(4)
Total costs and expenses	7,413	6,449
Earnings from continuing operations	261	453
Interest and other, net	(21)	(78)
Tax indemnification adjustments	(919)	(18)
Earnings (loss) from equity interests	22	(22)
(Loss) earnings from continuing operations before taxes	(657)	335
Benefit (provision) for taxes	2,139	(84)
Net earnings from continuing operations	1,482	251
Net (loss) earnings from discontinued operations	(46)	16
Net earnings	$ 1,436	$ 267
Basic
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	$ 0.93	$ 0.15
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	(0.03)	0.01
Total basic net earnings (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	0.90	0.16
Diluted
Continuing operations (in dollars per share)	0.92	0.15
Discontinued operations (in dollars per share)	(0.03)	0.01
Total diluted net earnings (loss) per share (in dollars per share)	0.89	0.16
Cash dividends declared per share (in dollars per share)	$ 0.15	$ 0.13
Weighted-average shares used to compute net earnings per share:
Basic (in shares)	1,591	1,669
Diluted (in shares)	1,619	1,700