Microsoft Q2 2026: Key figures include Copilot, Windows 11, and record Xbox growth

Microsoft today reported its financial results for FY26 Q2 (quarter ended December 31, 2025). Microsoft beat expectations on revenue and earnings, but the stock still fell over 6% in after-hours trading, as investors focused on record AI infrastructure spending and Azure growth expectations. Microsoft reported $81.3 billion in revenue (up 17% YoY) and $38.3 billion in operating income (up 21% YoY).

Below are the most notable figures Microsoft shared across its businesses and products during the earnings materials and conference call.

Commercial backlog and AI infrastructure:

  • Commercial RPO hit $625 billion (up 110% YoY), and Microsoft disclosed that OpenAI represents ~45% of that balance.
  • Microsoft’s capital expenditures increased significantly to $37.5 billion (up 66% YoY), a record quarter. Nearly two-thirds of that went to short-lived assets (primarily GPUs and CPUs).

Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot adoption:

  • Microsoft now has 15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats.
  • Average Copilot conversations per user doubled YoY.
  • Daily active users of the Copilot app increased 3x YoY.
  • Daily active users of Microsoft 365 Copilot increased 10x YoY.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot seat adds were up 160% YoY.
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with more than 35,000 seats tripled YoY. In fact, Publicis alone purchased over 95,000 seats.

Developer services:

  • GitHub Copilot Pro+ subscriptions (individual developers) increased 77% quarter-over-quarter.
  • Microsoft reported 4.7 million paid Copilot subscribers, up 75% YoY.

Fabric, Foundry, and others:

  • Microsoft Fabric reached over $2 billion annual revenue run rate, with over 31,000 customers, and revenue up 60% YoY.
  • Microsoft said over 1,500 customers have used both Anthropic and OpenAI models on Foundry.
  • Customers spending $1M+ per quarter on Foundry grew nearly 80%.
  • 250+ customers are on track to process over 1 trillion tokens on Foundry this year.
  • Microsoft claimed over 80% of the Fortune 500 have active agents built using its low-code/no-code tools (Copilot Studio and Agent Builder).

Security:

  • Microsoft said it now has 1.6 million security customers, including over 1 million using 4+ security workloads.
  • 24 billion Copilot interactions were audited by Purview this quarter (up 9x YoY).

Healthcare:

  • Microsoft said Dragon Copilot is helping over 100,000 medical providers.
  • Microsoft also said it helped document 21 million patient encounters this quarter, up 3x YoY.

Windows:

Gaming:

  • Microsoft saw record PC players and paid streaming hours on Xbox.

While Copilot adoption and Windows 11 usage have reached significant milestones, investor concerns regarding high AI-related capital expenditures led to a 6% drop in stock price.

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