MSFT — what changed in the latest 10-K

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• Tackling security from all angles with our integrated, end-to-end solutions spanning security, compliance, identity, and management, across all clouds and platforms.

• Helping customers drive frontier transformation by applying frontier AI capabilities, engineering expertise, and trusted platforms to reinvent how their organizations operate, improve decision-making, create new value, and deliver measurable business outcomes from AI.

• Providing a unified intelligence layer for enterprise AI to ground AI in a continuously evolving understanding of an organization’s data.

• Distribution occurs through a combination of direct and indirect channels. Direct sales activities serve customers ranging from large multinational enterprises and public sector organizations to small and medium-sized businesses. Indirect sales activities serve customers through a broad network of p…

• The indirect channel extends the reach of commercial offerings and supports customers across industries, geographies, and organization sizes. Sales and distribution models continue to evolve to support cloud-based, subscription-based, and consumption-based offerings while maintaining multiple option…

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• Tackling security from all angles with our integrated, end-to-end solutions spanning security, compliance, identity, and management, across all clouds and platforms.

• In August 2024, we announced changes to the composition of our segments. These changes align our segments with how we currently manage our business, most notably bringing the commercial components of Microsoft 365 together in the Productivity and Business Processes segment. Beginning in fiscal year …

• Our customers include individual consumers, small and medium organizations, large global enterprises, public-sector institutions, service providers, application developers, and OEMs. We market and distribute our products and services through the following channels: direct, distributors and resellers…

• Many organizations that license our products and services transact directly with us through Enterprise Agreements and Enterprise Services contracts, with sales support from system integrators, independent software vendors, web agencies, and partners that advise organizations on licensing our product…

• We also sell commercial and consumer products and services directly to customers, such as cloud services, search, and gaming, through our digital marketplaces and online stores. Additionally, our Microsoft Experience Centers are designed to facilitate deeper engagement with our partners and customer…

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• Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described below, that could adversely affect our business, operations, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and the trading price of our common stock. Statements in this section ref…

• We are investing in AI across the entire company and infusing AI capabilities into our offerings. AI technology and services are a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, and new competitors continue to enter the market. Our AI offerings compete with AI products from hyperscalers, open-sourc…

• A material part of our business involves cloud-based services available across the spectrum of computing devices. We and our competitors continue to devote significant resources to developing and deploying cloud-based strategies and services for consumers and business customers.

• Our cloud and AI strategy requires substantial investments and depends on evolving customer demand, technological developments, competitive dynamics, and regulatory conditions, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We have made and are cont…

• Demand for cloud-based and AI products and services is evolving and difficult to forecast. Overestimation of demand or misalignment of capacity investments may result in underutilization of infrastructure and may lead to impairment of assets on our balance sheet. Conversely, demand exceeding availab…

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• Our operations and financial results are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described below, that could adversely affect our business, operations, financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, and the trading price of our common stock.

• A material part of our business involves cloud-based services available across the spectrum of computing devices. We and our competitors continue to devote significant resources to developing and deploying cloud-based strategies and services for consumers and business customers, and pricing and deli…

• We are investing in artificial intelligence (“AI”) across the entire company and infusing generative AI capabilities into our consumer and commercial offerings. AI technology and services are a highly competitive and rapidly evolving market, and new competitors continue to enter the market. We will …

• Our focus on cloud-based and AI services presents execution and competitive risks. We are incurring significant costs to build and maintain infrastructure to support cloud-based and AI services, reducing operating margins. Whether we succeed in cloud-based and AI services depends on our execution in…

• Continuing to bring to market compelling cloud-based and AI services and products that generate increasing traffic and market share.

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• Commercial remaining performance obligation increased 84% to $678 billion.

• Search advertising (formerly Search and news advertising) revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 12%.

• We have a long-term strategic partnership with OpenAI which was originally established in 2019. In October 2025 and April 2026, we extended this partnership and continue to build on our shared vision to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. Microsoft i…

• In the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, we made updates to our metrics to align with how we manage and monitor certain businesses. As part of these updates, Microsoft 365 Consumer subscribers was removed as a metric.

• Adjusted net income and adjusted diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) are non-GAAP financial measures. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude net gains and losses from investments in OpenAI. Refer to the Non-GAAP Financial Measures section below for a reconciliation of our financial results reporte…

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• Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services revenue increased 14% driven by Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud revenue growth of 15%.

• Microsoft 365 Consumer products and cloud services revenue increased 11% driven by Microsoft 365 Consumer cloud revenue growth of 11%.

• Dynamics products and cloud services revenue increased 15% driven by Dynamics 365 revenue growth of 19%.

• Server products and cloud services revenue increased 23% driven by Azure and other cloud services revenue growth of 34%.

• Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 20%.