Microsoft reported strong quarterly results, with Azure revenue of more than US$100b for fiscal 2026 and Q4 Azure growth of 43%, supported by heavy AI and cloud spending and new offerings such as Copilot, E7 and first party Maia chips. Commercial cloud remaining performance obligations reached US$678b. Combined with broad Copilot adoption and new AI model launches, this points to a business increasingly tied to long term AI and cloud usage commitments. The focus now is on how Microsoft’s AI...