Total quarterly revenue reached $92.3 billion with profits exceeding $36.6 billion, outperforming analyst expectations across the board. Growth was anchored by Azure generating $33.2 billion, keeping the company firmly ahead of Google Cloud's $30.7 billion. Meanwhile, capital spending on property and equipment nearly doubled to $39 billion as the firm also introduced the Nvidia-powered Surface Ultra laptop to process artificial intelligence tasks locally.
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Azure secured $33.2 billion in quarterly revenue to hold its spot as the second-largest w…: Azure secured $33.2 billion in quarterly revenue to hold its spot as the second-largest worldwide cloud platform.
Capital expenditures remain enormous across the technology sector as competitors Alphabet…: Capital expenditures remain enormous across the technology sector as competitors Alphabet and Meta raise tens of billions for artificial intelligence.
New devices like the premium Surface Ultra reflect a strategic transition toward executin…: New devices like the premium Surface Ultra reflect a strategic transition toward executing machine learning workloads directly on personal computers.
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"We are delivering greater capability, choice, control, and cost efficiency for customers across our entire stack," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a statement.
The technology giant recorded $92.3 billion in total revenue and more than $36.6 billion in profit, the company said in a securities filing Wednesday.
Analysts had expected around $90.6 billion in revenue and $35.1 billion in profit, according to FactSet.
The quarterly earnings report comes just days after Microsoft offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as the tech giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence investments.
It's the second voluntary buyout offer that Microsoft has offered employees this year, after giving seven percent of its US workforce the option to retire early in April.
Microsoft had 223,000 employees globally at the end of June, down from 228,000 at the end of 2025, according to regulatory filings.
Earlier this month, Microsoft also announced a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips and will cost more than $2,500.
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