Microsoft says Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B, vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services up 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats
Microsoft issued higher-than-expected capex guidance for 2026, with the software maker's quarterly earnings and revenue topping estimates.
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Microsoft CEO Says Xbox Is ‘Recommitting To Our Core Fans’ As Revenue Falls In FY26 Q3
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We just reported record FY26 Q3 results, with revenue of $82.9 billion. ➕ AI revenue surpassed $37 billion in annual run rate ➕ Azure grew 40% (39% CC) year-over-year ➕ Paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats now exceed 20 million @satyanadella said, “We are focused on delivering [image…
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$MSFT CFO: “Microsoft cloud gross margin %ge should be roughly 64%, down YoY driven by continued investments in AI and increased GitHub, co-pilot usage. Just this week, we announced a business model transition in GitHub co-pilot that will align pricing with usage and value.”
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Satya Nadella
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Just wrapped our quarterly earnings call. We are focused on delivering AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in this agentic computing era. Our AI business surpassed a $37 billion annual revenue run rate, up 123%. We are at the …
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$MSFT CFO: AI margins structurally stronger than early cloud transition “You know, we've been talking about where this AI business of ours has been in the cycle, compared to even the cycle we saw with the cloud, which now seems very long ago, and how margins were actually better
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A thoughtful question to $MSFT CEO Satya: “What is supporting this demand over time, or set another way, who's paying for all this? Because while we see excitement for Microsoft in our CIO survey, overall IT spending expectations aren't increasing, and GDP ins't really
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Rihard Jarc
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I know the market wants to do what the market wants to do but can we just appreciate these growth numbers from some of the largest companies on earth: - $GOOGL cloud +63% YoY - $MSFT Azure +40% YoY - $META revenue up 33% YoY - $AMZN AWS +28% YoY Amazing. Long-term investors
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Asha
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Xbox earnings today. While we have made progress expanding the business and our margins, player and revenue growth has not yet met our ambition. We know we have work to do to earn every player today and into the future.
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Fun fact that i didn't include in my story from last year - through the first half of Q2FY26, OpenAI had already spent $1.8bn+ on inference. At $37bn run rate, it's fair to assume that the majority of Microsoft's AI revenue is from OpenAI. https://www.wheresyoured.at/ ...
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Ed Zitron
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Here's one thing missing from Microsoft's earnings: its supposed investment in Anthropic, announced November 2025. Did it even invest?
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Satya Nadella
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2/ Second, we are building high-value agentic systems across core domains, such as productivity, coding, and security. In knowledge work, we had our fastest growth since launch and now have over 20 million M365 Copilot seats. And so cool to see weekly Copilot engagement on par
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Fraser Gilbert
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Microsoft Issues Xbox Email Addresses As Part Of ‘Strengthening The Xbox Identity’
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Tom Warren
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Microsoft's Q3 2026 (fiscal) earnings: — • 💻 Windows OEM + devices revenue down 2% — • 👾 Gaming rev down 7% — • 🕹️ Xbox content + services rev down 5% — • 🎮 Xbox hardware rev down 33% — details 👇 …
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Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs
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Microsoft reports sinking Xbox revenue as its cloud business climbs
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(Xbox) FY26 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations
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thEY wERe lOosINg MonEY iTS uSUsTaiNaAblE
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Asha Sharma Comments On Xbox Revenue Loss For Q3 2026
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Just wrapped our quarterly earnings call. We are focused on delivering AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in this agentic computing era. …