Earnings Release FY26 Q1
Productivity and Business Processes
Revenue increased $4.7 billion or 17%.
• Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased $3.5 billion or 17%. Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud revenue grew 17% with growth in revenue per user driven by Microsoft 365 E5 and Microsoft 365 Copilot, as well as benefit from in-period revenue recognition. Microsoft 365 Commercial seats grew 6% driven by small and medium businesses and frontline worker offerings. Microsoft 365 Commercial products revenue grew 17% driven by an increase in Office 2024 transactional purchasing as well as growth in the Windows Commercial on-premises components of Microsoft 365 suite sales.
• Microsoft 365 Consumer products and cloud services revenue increased $477 million or 28%. Microsoft 365 Consumer cloud revenue grew 26% driven by growth in revenue per user and Microsoft 365 Consumer subscriber growth of 7%.
• LinkedIn revenue increased $422 million or 10% driven by growth in Marketing Solutions.
• Dynamics products and cloud services revenue increased $287 million or 16% driven by growth in Dynamics 365. Dynamics 365 revenue grew 18% with growth across all workloads.
Operating income increased $3.9 billion or 24%.
• Cost of revenue increased $427 million or 8% driven by growth in Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud.
• Gross margin increased $4.3 billion or 19% driven by growth in Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud. Gross margin percentage increased driven by efficiency gains in Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud even with the impact of scaling our AI infrastructure and growing usage of AI product features.
• Operating expenses increased $385 million or 6% driven by investments in cloud and AI engineering, including compute capacity and AI talent to support product development that benefits the entire portfolio.
Revenue, gross margin, and operating income included a favorable foreign currency impact of 3%, 3%, and 4%, respectively.
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