1、 1 Dear shareholders,colleagues,customers,and partners,We are living through a time of historic challenge and opportunity.As I write this,the world faces ongoing economic,social,and geopolitical volatility.At the same time,we have entered a new age of AI that will fundamentally transform productivit
2、y for every individual,organization,and industry on earth,and help us address some of our most pressing challenges.This next generation of AI will reshape every software category and every business,including our own.Forty-eight years after its founding,Microsoft remains a consequential company becau
3、se time and time againfrom PC/Server,to Web/Internet,to Cloud/Mobilewe have adapted to technological paradigm shifts.Today,we are doing so once again,as we lead this new era.Amid this transformation,our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more remains cons
4、tant.As a company,we believe we can be the democratizing force for this new generation of technology and the opportunity it will help unlock for every country,community,and individual,while mitigating its risks.Here are just a few examples of how we are already doing this:Leading electronic health r
5、ecords vendor Epic is addressing some of the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry todayincluding physician burnoutby deploying a wide range of copilot solutions built on Azure OpenAI Service and Dragon Ambient eXperience Copilot.Mercado Libre is reducing the time its developers spend wr
6、iting code by more than 50 percent with GitHub Copilot,as the company works to democratize e-commerce across Latin America.Mercedes-Benz is making its in-car voice assistant more intuitive for hundreds of thousands of drivers using ChatGPT via the Azure OpenAI Service.Lumen Technologies is helping i