https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/microsoft-earnings-q1-2018.html

Microsoft is set to report earnings for the first quarter of the company's fiscal year – which ended on September 30 – after the closing bell on Thursday. The company is also slated to hold a conference call with analysts at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.

The company is on track to exceed its self-imposed goal of a $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate for its commercial cloud business – which includes the Azure cloud, the Office 365 subscription-based application suite and Dynamics 365 apps for customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning – either this quarter or next quarter, KeyBanc analysts Brent Bracelin, Clarke Jeffries and Alyssa Johnson wrote in an Oct. 22 note.