More detailed Outlook slides will be available on the Microsoft Investor Relations website when we provide Outlook commentary on today's call. All growth comparisons we make on the call today relate to the corresponding period of last year, unless otherwise noted. We will also provide growth rates in constant currency, when available, as a framework for assessing how our underlying business has performed, excluding the effect of foreign currency rate fluctuations. Where growth rates are the same in constant currency, we will refer to the growth rate only.

It was a very strong close to what was a record fiscal year for us. All up, Microsoft Cloud surpassed $168 billion in annual revenue, up 23%. Azure surpassed $75 billion in annual revenue, up 34%, driven by growth across all workloads. Through software optimizations alone, we are delivering 90% more tokens for the same GPU compared to a year ago.

It continues to gain momentum with revenue up 55% year-over-year and over 25,000 customers. We saw the largest quarter of seat adds since launch, with a record number of customers returning to buy more seats. More broadly, GitHub usage and repos are seeing explosive growth because of AI. Our Copilot consumer app also continues to see strong growth in engagement and successful sessions.

What went well
  • It was a very strong close to a record fiscal year, with Microsoft Cloud surpassing $168 billion in annual revenue, up 23%, and Azure surpassing $75 billion in annual revenue, up 34%.
  • Q4 revenue was $76.4 billion, up 18% and 17% in constant currency, and EPS was $3.65, an increase of 24% and 22% in constant currency.
  • Full-year revenue exceeded $281 billion, up 15%, and operating income exceeded $128 billion, up 17%.
  • Commercial bookings exceeded $100 billion for the first time, increasing 37% and 30% in constant currency, and commercial remaining performance obligation grew to $368 billion, up 37%.
  • Intelligent Cloud revenue was $29.9 billion, up 26% and 25% in constant currency, with Azure and other cloud services growing 39%, significantly ahead of expectations, driven by accelerated core infrastructure growth from the largest customers.
  • Operating margins increased 2 points year-over-year to 45%, with operating income up 23% and 22% in constant currency.
  • Productivity and Business Processes revenue was $33.1 billion, up 16% and 14% in constant currency, with M365 commercial cloud up 18% and Dynamics 365 up 23%.
  • The family of Copilot apps surpassed 100 million monthly active users, and across products more than 800 million monthly active users engage with AI features.
  • Azure AI Foundry processed over 500 trillion tokens for the year, up over 7x, and is used by 80% of the Fortune 500, while GitHub Copilot reached 20 million users with enterprise customers up 75% quarter-over-quarter.
  • More Personal Computing revenue was $13.5 billion, up 9%, with gaming up 10%, Xbox content and services up 13% and 12% in constant currency, and search and news advertising ex-TAC up 21%.
  • Cash flow from operations was $42.6 billion, up 15%, free cash flow was $25.6 billion, and Microsoft returned over $37 billion to shareholders across the full fiscal year.
What went wrong
  • In the on-premises server business, revenue decreased 2% and 3% in constant currency.
  • Within Intelligent Cloud, enterprise and partner services growth was partially offset by a decline in industry solutions.
  • LinkedIn's talent solutions business continued to be impacted by weakness in the hiring market.
  • Azure AI services demand remained higher than supply even as additional data center capacity came online during the quarter.
  • Microsoft Cloud gross margin percentage was 68%, down 2 points year-over-year, and company gross margin was 69%, down 1 point, driven by scaling AI infrastructure and sales mix shift to Azure.
  • Other income and expense was negative $1.7 billion, primarily due to losses on investments accounted for under the equity method (OpenAI).

Guidance Changes

MetricPeriodCurrent guidance
Full-year revenue and operating income growthFY2026Another year of double-digit revenue and operating income growth expected
Operating marginsFY2026Expected to be relatively unchanged year-over-year
Capital expenditure growthFY2026Growth to moderate versus FY2025 with a greater mix of short-lived assets; H1 growth rates higher than H2
Effective tax rateFY2026Expected between 19% and 20%
FX impact on revenue and COGS growthFY2026+approximately 2 points to full-year revenue and COGS growth; +1 point to operating expense growth
FX impact on total revenue growthQ1 FY2026+2 points to total revenue growth
FX impact by segmentQ1 FY2026+~3 points in Productivity and Business Processes, +~1 point in Intelligent Cloud and More Personal Computing
Commercial bookingsQ1 FY2026Healthy growth expected on a growing expiry base, driven by core annuity sales motions

Performance Breakdown

MetricYoYNote
Total revenue +18% (+17% cc) to $76.4B Broad strength across products and services with strong sales and partner execution in the largest quarter of the year.
Microsoft Cloud revenue +27% (+25% cc) to $46.7B Strength across the commercial cloud, ahead of expectations.
Productivity and Business Processes revenue +16% (+14% cc) to $33.1B Driven by M365 commercial products and cloud services and M365 consumer products and cloud services.
Intelligent Cloud revenue +26% (+25% cc) to $29.9B Driven by Azure and the on-premises server business.
Azure and other cloud services +39% Accelerated growth in core infrastructure, primarily from the largest customers; Azure AI revenue in line with expectations as demand exceeded supply.
More Personal Computing revenue +9% to $13.5B Primarily Windows OEM and Xbox content and services; gaming up 10%.
On-premises server business -2% (-3% cc) Ahead of expectations on transactional purchasing with higher end-period revenue recognition.
M365 commercial cloud +18% (+16% cc) Two points of benefit from end-period revenue recognition plus ARPU growth from E5 and M365 Copilot; seats up 6%.
M365 consumer cloud +20% ARPU growth following the January price increase and subscriber growth of 8%.
LinkedIn revenue +9% (+8% cc) Growth across all businesses, though talent solutions weighed by the hiring market.
Dynamics 365 revenue +23% (+21% cc) Strong execution in core annuity sales motions and growth across all workloads.
Search and news advertising ex-TAC +21% (+20% cc) Volume and revenue-per-search growth plus roughly 8 points of favorable third-party partnership impact against a low prior-year comparable.
Xbox content and services +13% (+12% cc) Better-than-expected first-party content and Xbox Game Pass.
Earnings per share +24% (+22% cc) to $3.65 Revenue outperformance and operating margin expansion to 45%.

Earnings Call Themes & Trends

TopicPrevious mentionCurrent periodTrend
Azure annual scaleBelow $75B in the prior fiscal yearSurpassed $75 billion in annual revenue, up 34%, taking share every quarter of the year
Data center capacityFewer regions and no liquid cooling across all regions previouslyOver 400 data centers across 70 regions; more than 2 GW of new capacity stood up in 12 months; every Azure region now AI-first with liquid-cooling support
Foundry token volumeRoughly one-seventh of current volume a year agoOver 500 trillion tokens processed this year, up over 7x
Copilot app engagementPrior-year AI-feature engagement lowerOver 100 million monthly active Copilot users and over 800 million monthly active users of AI features across products
GitHub Copilot enterpriseLower base in the prior quarterEnterprise customers up 75% quarter-over-quarter; 20 million total users; 90% of the Fortune 100 use GitHub Copilot
Dragon Copilot (healthcare)Roughly one-seventh of current volume a year agoOver 13 million physician-patient encounters documented this quarter, up nearly 7x year-over-year
CapEx supply-demand balanceIn January expected better balance by JuneNow hopes to be in better supply-demand shape by December as demand keeps improving
Microsoft FabricPrior-year revenue and customer base lowerRevenue up 55% year-over-year with over 25,000 customers, the fastest-growing database product in company history

Q&A Summary

Keith Weiss (Morgan Stanley) offered congratulations on FY25, noting he had never seen a quarter come together this well.
Nadella said the workload results are invaluable for learning to build both products and the platform, that broad diffusion follows head-app usage, and that he tracks not just head apps but the tier-two applications being built, leaving him feeling very good about Microsoft's standing going forward.
Mark Moerdler (Bernstein) asked how software companies will monetize AI for SaaS, whether horizontal versus agentic apps differ, and the long-term trajectory of SaaS AI margins.
Nadella likened it to the server-to-cloud expansion of usage, said SaaS apps are adding agentic and chat interfaces plus autonomous agents (using GitHub Copilot's evolution from completions to chat to agent mode to autonomous agent as the example), and stressed expanding the data, business-logic, and UI tiers drives usage. Hood said monetization will blend per-user, tiered, and consumption models as model capability grows.
Karl Keirstead (UBS) asked about the second consecutive quarter of Azure upside from on-prem to Azure migration and how durable the trend is.
Nadella cited three drivers: migrations (e.g., Nestle's SAP move), cloud-native applications scaling (some new to Azure, coming for AI but staying for more), and new AI workloads, adding that migrations are only in the middle innings.
Brent Thill (Jefferies) asked whether anything surprised Satya given the broad-based strength.
Nadella said nothing really surprised them, but noted platforms are becoming more than a model and an API call, with stateful app patterns emerging that require rethinking the app stack (storage tier, indexing, context engineering), and that maturing frameworks around Azure Search, Fabric, and Cosmos DB let customers build sophisticated applications very quickly.
Raimo Lenschow (Barclays) asked about the recognition that Copilot is a starting point and data is becoming more important on the path to agents.
Nadella agreed, saying interactions are moving beyond request-response to spawning applications that do work and return, that UI remains important for instructing and monitoring asynchronous work, and cited surging GitHub Copilot code review agent usage even when code is written with other tools like Claude Code.
Kash Rangan (Goldman Sachs) noted Microsoft achieved accelerating Azure with more efficient margins and asked about the shape of the CapEx curve versus Azure growth.
Hood grounded it in the $368 billion contracted backlog, said Q1 CapEx would be over $30 billion, that short-lived asset spend (servers, GPUs, CPUs) is correlated to booked business, and declined to pick a CapEx/revenue crossover point because doing so tends to make you too conservative in an expansive market. Nadella reiterated that software optimization (e.g., the GPT-4o efficiency gains) is what differentiates a hyperscaler from a hoster.
Michael Turrin (Wells Fargo) asked how Microsoft can hold operating margins flat in FY26 while absorbing Azure and AI mix shift, and about internal AI productivity gains.
Hood said revenue growth is the most durable margin driver, that compounding S-curve efficiencies across the stack offset mix shift even while building out, and that focusing on great, competitive products with the biggest markets underpins the full-year margin confidence.

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