SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft posted on Wednesday its revenue of 82.9 billion U.S. dollars for the third quarter of the 2026 fiscal year, up 18 percent from the same period of the last fiscal year.

The company generated a quarterly net income of 31.8 billion dollars, up 23 percent year on year, and its diluted earnings per share stood at 4.27 dollars. Its operating income was 38.4 billion dollars, an increase of 20 percent, Microsoft said in its financial report.

Microsoft returned 10.2 billion dollars to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases in the quarter.

"We are focused on delivering cloud and AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in the agentic computing era," said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft. "Our AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of 37 billion dollars, up 123 percent year-over-year." ■