Microsoft has agreed to invest $1-billion in a partnership with research group OpenAI, gaining a prominent cloud-computing customer from the artificial intelligence field.
Microsoft topped quarterly sales and profit projections, fuelled by steady demand for cloud computing services and a surprisingly strong Windows business.
Oracle announced on Wednesday that it has secured a cloud-computing alliance with Microsoft, an acknowledgment the database giant’s go-it-alone approach to the cloud wasn’t working.
When Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, more than a decade of developer defections had left the company in a weak position. All that has changed in dramatic fashion.
First Apple rolled out iPhone software to fight screen addiction. Now Microsoft is offering business software to help restore work-life balance.
Microsoft’s cloud computing business fuelled quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates, boosted by several new deals with large corporate clients.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Microsoft was the European Commission’s nemesis. Facebook should take some lessons for the software giant to overcome its regulatory challenges.
Apple gave up its crown as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, at least for a few minutes on Monday.
Microsoft posted another quarter of brisk revenue growth driven by cloud services, underscoring the company’s success in shifting its business toward Internet-based computing. The stock rose in extended trading.
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