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Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will release fiscal year 2026 second-quarter results after market close on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026. A live webcast of the earnings conference call will be available at 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Financial results and the webcast will be accessible via the Microsoft Investor Relations website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/.

Microsoft reaffirmed its focus on AI platforms and tools and invited investors and the public to view the webcast for results and management commentary.

Candy Crush launched Candy Unwrapped 2025 on Dec 8, spotlighting players with personalized year-in-game recaps and social sharing. Celebrity Lisa Rinna served as the first-ever Candy Coach, reposting player stats on Instagram and encouraging fans to tag her for features.

The campaign highlighted global 2025 play metrics: 95 trillion candies crushed, 97 billion levels passed, 7 billion lives sent, and 47 billion boosters used. A 10-foot candy jar installation will appear outside the Wrigley Building in Chicago from Dec 14–16, 2025 to celebrate local play.

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) shareholders voted to reject Proposal 9 at the 2025 annual meeting, with more than 70% of voting shares opposing the measure on Dec 5, 2025. The proposal—framed by proponents as conflict-specific human rights due diligence targeting Israel—was described by JLens and ADL as aligned with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Key timeline items: Aug 26, 2025 campus protests; Oct 21, 2025 proposal filed; Nov 6, 2025 JLens filed an SEC exempt solicitation; proxy advisers split recommendations (Glass Lewis against; ISS for); final shareholder vote rejected the proposal.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) announced that its board declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.91 per share. The dividend is payable March 12, 2026 to shareholders of record on February 19, 2026, with an ex-dividend date of February 19, 2026. The announcement reiterates Microsoft’s focus on delivering platforms and AI-powered tools and notes the company’s stated mission to empower people and organizations.

Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI) on November 17, 2025 announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a next‑gen AI "superagent" and accelerate its digital transformation.

The collaboration uses Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel and an Azure‑native orchestrator agent embedded in Microsoft Teams to route employee queries to multiple subagents. LS&Co. is also adopting Surface Copilot+ PCs, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Intune and migrating workloads with Azure to consolidate private data centers and scale AI while pursuing a zero‑trust security model.

ADL and JLens urged Microsoft shareholders (NASDAQ: MSFT) to vote AGAINST Proposal 9, which they say is a politically motivated, BDS-aligned resolution targeting Microsoft’s cloud and AI services used by Israel’s Ministry of Defense. The groups argue the proposal singling out Israel raises financial, legal and reputational risks and politicizes the proxy process. Microsoft’s board also recommends voting against the measure. The annual meeting is scheduled for December 5, 2025. JLens filed a Notice of Exempt Solicitation with the SEC to document its opposition. The release cites an August 2025 Redmond campus protest and arrests as context for activist pressure on the company.

Candy Crush Saga (MSFT) launched a multisensory Music Season on November 6, 2025, featuring a new cover of Diana Ross's "Upside Down" reimagined with Grammy-winning artist Thundercat.

The campaign includes a playable music video where every swipe alters visuals and gameplay, and limited-edition bone-conduction lollipops that transmit the beat via jaw vibrations. The playable video and cover debut November 6, 2025, and lollipops are free via candycrushupsidedown.com while supplies last. In-game Music Season runs November 3–December 7, 2025.

Pantone and Microsoft (MSFT) announced the beta launch of the Pantone Palette Generator on November 5, 2025, an AI-powered, chat-based tool inside Pantone Connect that accelerates color research, palette creation and concept generation.

Built on Azure OpenAI with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Azure AI Search and Azure Cosmos DB, the Palette Generator semantically searches Pantone Color Institute forecasting and Color Insider content to produce palettes from Pantone’s libraries, starting with Fashion, Home & Interiors. The open beta is available to all Pantone Connect users, including free accounts, with plans to expand to the full color library and integrate Color of the Year features.

Microsoft (MSFT) reported fiscal Q1 ended Sept 30, 2025: revenue $77.7B (+18% YoY; +17% constant currency), operating income $38.0B (+24%; +22% cc), GAAP net income $27.7B (+12%) and non-GAAP net income $30.8B (+22%; +21% cc).

EPS GAAP $3.72 (+13%), non-GAAP $4.13 (+23%; +21% cc). Microsoft Cloud revenue was $49.1B (+26%; +25% cc) and Azure revenue grew 40% (+39% cc). The company returned $10.7B to shareholders in the quarter. Non-GAAP excludes a $3.1B OpenAI-related loss that reduced net income and EPS.