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Fourth-quarter revenue reached $90.0 billion and Copilot hit 30 million paid seats. Microsoft also extended the useful life of its data centres from 15 years to 25, cutting its calendar-2026 capex headline by about $15 billion without changing what it intends to build.
Jul 30, 2026
A record $190 billion capital-spending year has not stopped Azure customers queueing behind Microsoft's own Copilots — and after a run of GitHub outages, it was Amazon that supplied the capacity.
Jul 27, 2026
The expanded partnership makes the French lab a supplier of GPU capacity to Microsoft's own cloud customers, and puts Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 into Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio.
Jul 22, 2026
