Microsoft (MSFT): FY26 Q2 earnings call, Jan 28, 2026

Wed, Jan 28Earnings callSpeaker-labelled transcriptMicrosoft

On its Jan 28, 2026 earnings call (FY26 Q2), Microsoft said 8 of the 11 words Kalshi listed; Parrot’s count agreed with all 11 settlements. Quotes below are at most 25 words each.

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11 words · 8 settled yes · our count agreed on 11 of 11

backtest The probabilities on settled rows are a walk-forward backtest: the model as of before each event, computed after Parrot went live; they were not published at the time.

Listed words: result, our count under the market rule, the count over every speaker, whether they agree, and the probability (a walk-forward backtest on settled rows)
WordResultOur countAll speakersAgreesProbabilityMarket
OpenAI Yes1415✓96%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
R&D / Research and Development Yes88✓57%transcripts from the transcript model–
Teams Yes55✓94%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Gaming Yes44✓93%n=2+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
LinkedIn Yes33✓94%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
Nvidia Yes33✓65%transcripts from the transcript model–
Anthropic Yes33✓36%transcripts from the transcript model–
Windows 11 Yes11✓76%transcripts from the transcript model–
Phi No00✓61%n=2+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–
College No00✓18%transcripts from the transcript model–
Cybersecurity No00✓16%n=3+tx from settlement history blended with transcripts–

Market prices are mid quotes from Kalshi and Polymarket, shown for context, may be delayed by several minutes and are not a signal. Quotes as of Oct 20, 2026 15:46 UTC.

Transcript

quotes of at most 25 words

Speaker-labelled transcript · Source and credits · Used to count words; quotes of at most 25 words.

17 matches for “Capacity”; 5 quoted, at least 25 words apart.

Satya Nadellacompanyprepared

…for high-scale training. All up, we added nearly one gigawatt of total capacity this quarter alone. At the silicon layer, we have NVIDIA and AMD…

Amy Hoodcompanyprepared

…5% in constant currency, driven by R and D investments in compute capacity and AI talent as well as impairment charges in our gaming business.…

Amy Hoodcompanyprepared

…ongoing efficiency gains across our fungible fleet enabling us to reallocate some capacity to Azure that was monetized in the quarter. As mentioned earlier, continue…

Amy Hoodcompanyprepared

…business noted earlier, as well as R and D investments in compute capacity and AI talent. Operating income decreased 3% in constant currency, and operating…

Amy Hoodcompanyprepared

…to 11% driven by continued investment in R and D, AI compute capacity, and talent. Against a low prior year comparable. Operating margins should be…

Where the listed words were said

Satya Nadellacompany“OpenAI” · prepared

…we were able to achieve in one of our highest volume workloads, OpenAI inferencing, powering our co-pilots. And another example was the unlocking of new…

Satya Nadellacompany“R&D / Research and Development” · prepared

…and EDA are using Microsoft Discovery to orchestrate specialized agents for R and D end to end. They're able to reason over scientific literature and…

Satya Nadellacompany“Teams” · prepared

…or using the transcript of your last engineering and design meeting in Teams. And we're going beyond that with GitHub Copilot SDK. Developers can now…

Satya Nadellacompany“Gaming” · prepared

…growth in LinkedIn with 30% growth in paid video ads. And in gaming, we are committed to delivering great games across Xbox, PC, cloud, and…

Amy Hoodcompany“LinkedIn” · prepared

…currency, again driven by ARPU growth. Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions grew 6%. LinkedIn revenue increased 11% in constant currency, driven by marketing solutions. Dynamics 365…

Satya Nadellacompany“Nvidia” · prepared

…cloud or any other cloud. And partners like Adobe, Databricks, Genspaw, Glean, NVIDIA, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday are already integrating agent 365. We are the…

Satya Nadellacompany“Anthropic” · prepared

…as well as Claude 4.5. Already over 1,500 customers have used both Anthropic and OpenAI models on Foundry. We are seeing increasing demand for region-specific…

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