Morgan Stanley says Microsoft (MSFT.O) will implement a broad external reporting
restructure effective FY2027, merging Productivity and Business Processes,
Intelligent Cloud and More Personal Computing into two segments—Agents and Infra
and Devices and Consumer—to align reporting with its integrated cloud+AI
operating model. The firm views the changes as largely an accounting
reclassification that does not alter underlying economics; Azure and Microsoft
365 reporting adjustments are mechanical. Morgan Stanley maintains its view that
Azure will accelerate in H1 FY2027 versus H2 FY2026 and that Microsoft 365
commercial cloud growth will quicken in FY2027, and reiterates an Overweight
rating with a PT of $600.