“In Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud on an adjusted basis, we expect revenue growth to be between 15 and 16 in constant currency, when normalized for the prior-year comparable that benefited from two points of in-period revenue recognition.”

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“nt. FX should increase COGS growth by roughly one point with no impact to operating expense growth. Starting with our commercial business, in commercial bookings, when adjusted for the impact from OpenAI, we expect healthy growth on a growing expiry base with consistent execution in our core annuity sales motions against a significant prior-year comparable. Microsoft Cloud gross margin percentage should be roughly 64%, down year over year driven by continued investments in AI and increased GitHub Copilot usage. Just this week, we announced a business model transition in GitHub Copilot that will align pricing with usage and value that takes effect on June 1. Now to segment guidance. In Productivity and Business Processes, we expect revenue of $37.0 to $37.3 billion or growth of 12% to 13%. In Microsoft 365 Commercial cloud on an adjusted basis, we expect revenue growth to be between 15 and 16 in constant currency, when normalized for the prior-year comparable that benefited from two points of in-period revenue recognition. On a reported basis, we expect revenue growth to be between 13 and 14% in constant currency. Building on the Copilot momentum we saw in Q3, we expect net paid seat adds to increase sequentially, which will drive continued ARPU growth. Microsoft 365 Commercial products revenue should grow in the mid-single digits against a prior year that benefited from higher-than-expected Office 2024 transactional purchasing. As a reminder, Microsoft 365 Commercial products includes components that can be variable due to in-period revenue recognition dynamics. Microsoft 365 Consumer cloud revenue growth should be in the low 20% range, down sequentially as we start to lap the benefit from last year's price increase. Growth will again be driven by ARPU and an increase in subscription volume. For LinkedIn,”