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Microsoft

As of September 4, 2026, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $3.79T (companiesmarketcap.com). Its most recent revenue figure is $281.7B, reported by Microsoft Investor Relations, June 2025.

Develops software, cloud services (Azure), and devices, including Windows and Microsoft 365.

PublicRedmond, Washington, USAFounded 1975Founders: Bill Gates, Paul AllenPublic companyWebsite ↗See connections →
Last verified Sep 4, 2026

Microsoft at a glance

As of
Market cap
$3.79T[1]
September 2026
Revenue
$281.7B[2]
June 2025
Founded
1975[3]
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, USA[4]
  1. [1] Market cap: companiesmarketcap.com, September 4, 2026
  2. [2] Revenue: Microsoft Investor Relations, June 30, 2025
  3. [3] Founded: Wikipedia (retrieved September 5, 2026)
  4. [4] Headquarters: Wikipedia (retrieved September 5, 2026)

What Microsoft does

Microsoft was founded in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.[1] Goldman Sachs was book-running manager of its initial public offering.[1] The buildout is costly: cash used in investing rose to $139.5 billion in fiscal 2026, driven by a $51.4 billion increase in additions to property and equipment.[2] Microsoft's largest startup bet is OpenAI, in which it holds an approximate 25% as-converted interest.[2] It has committed $13.0 billion to that investment, of which $11.9 billion had been funded by June 30, 2026.[2] In November 2025 Microsoft also committed up to $5 billion to Anthropic, alongside up to $10 billion from Nvidia.[3] Anthropic in turn committed to buy $30 billion of Azure compute capacity.[3] Microsoft booked a $3.2 billion gain on the Anthropic stake in its fiscal fourth quarter.[4] Its corporate venture arm, M12, has backed AI startups including d-Matrix, Typeface and WorkBoard.[5] On the M&A side, Microsoft agreed in January 2026 to acquire Seattle data-engineering startup Osmos.[6],[7] In March 2026 it hired the team behind Sequoia-backed AI collaboration startup Cove.[8],[7]

Business model and customers

In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $90.0 billion, up 18%.[4],[7],[5] Azure revenue passed $100 billion for the first time in fiscal 2026.[4],[7]

Microsoft profile

written 2026-10-24

Microsoft booked $331.8B in fiscal 2026 revenue, holds about 27% of OpenAI, backs Anthropic, and invests in seed-to-Series B startups through M12.

History

Microsoft went public in 1986 with a $21 offering price that rose to $35.50 by the end of the first day. Some 2.5 million shares were sold that day, raising $61 million in what some analysts called the deal of the year. Co-founder Bill Gates, then 30, sold $1.6 million of shares and kept a 45 percent stake worth $350 million. The stock climbed more than a hundredfold between 1986 and 1996. Microsoft's pre-IPO venture backing could not be sourced from a reachable primary or press page and is not described here.[1]

IPO and ownership

Microsoft trades on Nasdaq as MSFT. CompaniesMarketCap put its market capitalization at $3.894 trillion as of October 2026.[2],[3]

Financials

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 Microsoft reported revenue of $331.8 billion, up 18%. Fourth-quarter revenue was $90.0 billion, also up 18%. Microsoft Cloud revenue in the quarter was $59.3 billion, up 27%, and commercial remaining performance obligation rose 84% to $678 billion. Satya Nadella said Azure revenue passed $100 billion for the year for the first time and Microsoft 365 Copilot reached over 30 million paid seats.[3]

The AI buildout shows up in capital spending: additions to property and equipment were $35,802 million in the June 2026 quarter and $115,948 million for the fiscal year. The company also publishes results adjusted for the impact of its OpenAI investments, because those investments now move reported net income materially.[3]

Investments

Microsoft's most consequential startup position is OpenAI. After OpenAI completed its for-profit recapitalization in October 2025, Microsoft, an early investor, held a roughly 27% stake valued at about $135 billion, and the deal extended Microsoft's IP rights to OpenAI models through 2032. TechCrunch puts Microsoft's total investment at more than $13 billion; in the December 2025 quarter Microsoft's net income rose by $7.6 billion from that investment alone, and OpenAI agreed to buy another $250 billion of Azure services, which sits in Microsoft's commercial remaining performance obligation.[4],[5]

In November 2025 Microsoft committed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, alongside Nvidia's up to $10 billion, as part of a three-way partnership announced on Microsoft's blog.[6]

Its venture arm, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Capital Fund), invests in seed through Series B companies across AI apps, security for AI, AI cloud infrastructure, AI data ops and models, and deep tech and systems. It also runs a GitHub Fund. M12 says its strategy is tightly aligned to Microsoft, and its site highlights Inworld (Series A, 2019) and Evisort (Series A, 2019, later acquired by Workday) as case studies.[7]

Acquisitions

Microsoft's defining developer acquisition was GitHub, announced June 4, 2018 for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock, when GitHub had more than 28 million developers. Microsoft said GitHub would keep its developer-first ethos and remain open to any language, tool, operating system and cloud.[8]

References

  1. news.microsoft.com
  2. companiesmarketcap.com
  3. sec.gov
  4. techcrunch.com
  5. techcrunch.com
  6. blogs.microsoft.com
  7. m12.vc
  8. news.microsoft.com

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Company Snapshot

Microsoft is based in Redmond, Washington, USA, founded 1975 by Bill Gates, Paul Allen.

Recent changes

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  2. Oct 20, 2026Private Equity Eyes $100B+ Buyout Of Microsoft's Xbox Pulse story
  3. Oct 10, 2026Microsoft's Decision-1 Claims 2.8x Faster Than Jev Pulse story
  4. Oct 7, 2026Microsoft And Nvidia Launch AI-Centric Surface PCs Pulse story
  5. Oct 5, 2026Meta, Microsoft Cut Spending On Anthropic's Claude Pulse story
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  2. Sep 23, 2026Microsoft Commits $10B-Plus To Middle East AI Buildout Pulse story
  3. Sep 22, 2026Invested in Micro1 (Series B, Undisclosed) micro1 (company release via EIN Presswire / Detroit Free Press)
  4. Sep 22, 2026Microsoft Cuts Copilot Prices Up To 50% Pulse story
  5. Sep 15, 2026Oracle, Microsoft And The Pentagon, By The Numbers Pulse story
  6. Sep 11, 2026Microsoft Plans To Triple Data Centers To 38GW Pulse story
  7. Sep 4, 2026First reported market cap: $3.79T companiesmarketcap.com
  8. Mar 31, 2026Follow-on: Invested in OpenAI ($122B) TechCrunch
  9. Feb 2026First reported headcount: 228,000 entity-registry reconciliation
  10. Nov 12, 2025Invested in d-Matrix (Series C, $275M) Data Center Dynamics
  11. Jun 30, 2025First reported revenue: $281.7B Microsoft Investor Relations
  12. Mar 31, 2025Follow-on: Invested in OpenAI ($40B) TechCrunch
  13. Oct 2, 2024Invested in OpenAI ($6.6B) TechCrunch
  14. Apr 15, 2024Invested in G42 (Strategic investment, $1.5B) TechTarget

How Microsoft has been funded

The IPO was priced at $21 a share, and the stock began trading on March 13, 1986.[1] The offering raised $61 million and gave Microsoft a market capitalization of $777 million.[1] Four decades later, Nasdaq data put its market value at $3.869 trillion on October 22, 2026.[7]

Investors

Norwest Venture Partners

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  1. Anthropic's $2T IPO Ask Doesn't Add Up, Analysts SayAnthropic's push for a $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion IPO valuation is drawing skepticism from Wall Street analysts after the AI company posted $17 billion in third-quarter revenue and a $567 million operating loss.→
  2. SWI Compute Orders $1B Of Nvidia Chips For AI FactoriesSWI Compute launched a European AI data center network built on roughly $1 billion of Nvidia hardware, targeting 2.3 gigawatts of capacity by 2029.→
  3. Anthropic Files To Sell $3.5B Of Shares To Japan InvestorsAnthropic filed to sell up to $3.5 billion of shares to investors in Japan as part of its planned US listing, without disclosing the IPO's total size or valuation.→
  4. OpenAI Raises $11B, Far Short Of $30B Target | Valuation Cut To $1.25TOpenAI has raised about $11 billion of a $30 billion fundraising target and cut its valuation goal to $1.25 trillion, with plans to tap family offices for up to $20 billion.→
  5. Amazon Discloses $80B Supplier Financing Loan For AI BuildoutAmazon disclosed a secured loan facility of up to $80 billion, confirmed in its Q3 2026 SEC filing, to help finance AI hardware purchases as its total purchase commitments reach $883.6 billion.→
  6. Big Tech Earnings: Google Cloud Up 103%, Azure 48%, AWS 39%Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Intel filed September-quarter results on Oct. 28 and 29. Google Cloud revenue rose 103%, Azure 48% and AWS 39%, while quarterly capex reached $51.4B at Alphabet and $39.4B at Microsoft.→
  7. Group14 Raises $169M (€150M) Series D Extension For Spain PlantGroup14 Technologies closed a €150 million, or about $169 million, Series D extension on October 30, 2026, to build a new silicon battery materials plant in Sagunto, Spain.→
  8. Nvidia May Guarantee Debt For Nscale's $45B Anthropic DealNvidia is discussing guaranteeing billions in construction debt for Nscale's West Virginia data center, which would house a second, roughly $45 billion Anthropic compute deal, The Information and Bloomberg reported October 29-30, 2026.→
  9. Archera Raises $15M Series C After Delivering $700M In Cloud SavingsArchera has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Pivot Investment Partners, after its cloud-cost platform delivered more than $700 million in savings to over 2,200 organizations.→
  10. Reflex Raises $14M Series A, Backed By Lux Capital, DatabricksReflex closed a $14 million Series A led by Standard Capital, with Lux Capital and Databricks Ventures participating, to scale AI agents that build custom business software for enterprises including Amazon and Walmart.→
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  1. Oct 30, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech Earnings: Google Cloud Up 103%, Azure 48%, AWS 39%→
  2. Oct 28, 2026AIPlato Raises $16M Series A, Taps Microsoft AI's Suleyman As Investor$16M Series A→
  3. Oct 20, 2026BIG TECHPrivate Equity Eyes $100B+ Buyout Of Microsoft's Xbox$100B+ Buyout Interest→
  4. Oct 19, 2026AIMicrosoft Says Frontier AI Models 'Cannot Be Trusted'→
  5. Oct 18, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays→
  6. Oct 16, 2026REGULATIONCMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance→
  7. Oct 15, 2026BIG TECHAmazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook~$1B Write-down→
  8. Oct 13, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput→
  9. Oct 13, 2026FUNDINGJefferies Warns AI's $2.3 Trillion Backlog Risks A Reset$2.3T contracted backlog→
  10. Oct 12, 2026REGULATIONTrump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline→
  11. Oct 12, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules→
  12. Oct 12, 2026PEOPLEPeter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1→
  13. Oct 10, 2026AINadella Says AI Models Need An 'Emergency Brake'→
  14. Oct 10, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's $700B AI Bet Now Targets Healthcare$700B 2026 AI Capex→
  15. Oct 10, 2026AIMicrosoft's Decision-1 Claims 2.8x Faster Than Jev$0.042/1M input tokens→
  16. Oct 8, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft, Adobe Lose Green Card Access Amid Visa Fraud Claims→
  17. Oct 7, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft And Nvidia Launch AI-Centric Surface PCs$2,599 / $5,999→
  18. Oct 7, 2026AIMecka AI Raises $60M Series B to Scale Robot Training Data$60M Series B→
  19. Oct 5, 2026BIG TECHMeta, Microsoft Cut Spending On Anthropic's Claude$105M+ Meta Claude spend→
  20. Oct 5, 2026BIG TECHGoogle, Amazon And Microsoft Still Need Chinese Hardware$160B+ in Asia data centers→
  21. Oct 2, 2026AIMicrosoft Launches Voice AI To Take On ElevenLabs→
  22. Oct 2, 2026AIMicrosoft Debuts Voice AI, Taking Aim At ElevenLabs→
  23. Oct 2, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft's Office, Teams Chief Exits Amid Exodus→
  24. Oct 1, 2026FUNDINGLambda Closes $1B Investment-Grade GPU Debt Deal$1.008B debt financing→
  25. Sep 25, 2026AIMicrosoft Relaunches Copilot as AI 'Super App'→
  26. Sep 24, 2026BIG TECHDatabricks Acquires Excel Rival Row Zero→
  27. Sep 23, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Commits $10B-Plus To Middle East AI Buildout$10B+ through 2030→
  28. Sep 22, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Cuts Copilot Prices Up To 50%Up to 50% off Copilot→
  29. Sep 22, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft Dismantles First AI-Built Phishing Service→
  30. Sep 21, 2026REGULATIONNadella, Huang, Altman, Cook Join Trump-Xi State Dinner→
  31. Sep 17, 2026AISame Zero-Click Flaw Hits Claude Code, Codex, Copilot→
  32. Sep 15, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft Commits To Sweeping AI Rules For Students→
  33. Sep 15, 2026FUNDINGOracle, Microsoft And The Pentagon, By The Numbers→
  34. Sep 14, 2026IPOChips Sank And Hyperscalers Rose On Amodei's AI EssayNvidia -3%, Micron -6%→
  35. Sep 14, 2026AIMicrosoft Tells Its Models Not To Hack Or Deceive→
  36. Sep 14, 2026FUNDINGTandem Health Raises $100M For Clinical AI Co-Pilot$100M Series B→
  37. Sep 11, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Plans To Triple Data Centers To 38GW38GW by 2032 (from ~12GW)→
  38. Sep 11, 2026AIThe AI Infrastructure Bill Is Coming Due→
  39. Sep 8, 2026AINYT v. OpenAI Copyright Case Reaches Key Phase→
  40. Sep 5, 2026REGULATIONSeattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft→
  41. Sep 4, 2026FUNDINGGimlet Labs Hits $3B Valuation on Chip-Agnostic AI Bet$300M Series B→
  42. Sep 4, 2026FUNDINGHiddenLayer Raises $100M as AI Security Consolidates$100M Series B→
  43. Sep 4, 2026AIMicrosoft's MAI-Transcribe-2 Undercuts Rivals on Price→
  44. Sep 3, 2026AIChatGPT, Claude and Grok All Went Down at Once→
  45. Sep 3, 2026AIGoogle Brings Gemini Voice Chat to Gmail, Docs, Keep→
  46. Sep 3, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Will Finally Disclose Azure's Actual Revenue→
  47. Sep 2, 2026BIG TECHAI Capex Earnings Season Delivers a Split Verdict→
  48. Sep 2, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Will Finally Break Out Azure's Real Revenue→
  49. Sep 1, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft and AWS Finally Built the Multicloud Link→
  50. Aug 28, 2026FUNDINGLambda Borrows $1B to Buy GPUs for Microsoft$1B debt facility→
  51. Aug 28, 2026AI100+ Firms Warn AI Cyberattacks Are About to Surge→
  52. Aug 28, 2026AIMicrosoft Delays Its AI Meeting Intern Again→
  53. Aug 27, 2026AINvidia's AI Servers Are About to Get 15% Pricier→
  54. Aug 27, 2026AIxAI Brings Grok 4.6 to Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud→
  55. Aug 27, 2026REGULATION116 Firms Warn Time Is Short on AI Cyber Threats116 signatories→
  56. Aug 25, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft's AI Watermarks in Paint, Photos Tied to User IDs→
  57. Aug 20, 2026AIMeta Becomes One of Microsoft's Top AI Customers→
  58. Aug 20, 2026AIOpenAI's New Safety Tool Flags Abuse Without Reading Prompts→
  59. Aug 18, 2026AIGemini Now Powers Chrome for All US Android Users→
  60. Aug 18, 2026AICopilot Told Researchers How to Bypass Its Own Guardrail→
  61. Aug 13, 2026AIMicrosoft Starts Rolling Out Its Unified Copilot App→
  62. Aug 9, 2026BIG TECHAlphabet and Microsoft Just Raised the Capex Bar Again→
  63. Aug 5, 2026AIMicrosoft Caps Engineers' AI Token Spending→
  64. Aug 5, 2026AIMicrosoft Caps Engineer AI Spending After Budgets Blew Up→
  65. Aug 4, 2026REGULATIONWhite House Won't Release Its AI Testing Rules→
  66. Aug 4, 2026BIG TECHAmazon Joins the $3 Trillion Club on AI Cloud Demand$3T market cap→
  67. Aug 4, 2026AIThe Hyperscaler Compute Arms Race, By the Numbers→
  68. Aug 3, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft's Capex Guidance Is a Nvidia Demand Signal→
  69. Aug 1, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's AI Capex Verdict: Discipline Beats Scale→
  70. Jul 31, 2026BIG TECHKospi Jumps a Record 18% as Samsung, SK Hynix Soar+17.9%, record→
  71. Jul 30, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Posts Largest Single-Day Market-Value Gain Ever+15.5%, +$450B→
  72. Jul 30, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Adds Record $450B in a Single Trading Day+$450B market cap→
  73. Jul 30, 2026FUNDINGInforcer Raises $50M to Ready SMBs for AI Security Risk$50M Series C→
  74. Jul 29, 2026AINadella Confirms Microsoft Copilot 'Super App' Plan→
  75. Jul 29, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft's Azure Tops $100B as FY27 Capex Guide Jumps$90.01B Q4 revenue→
  76. Jul 29, 2026REGULATIONGlobalFoundries Wins $300M US Grant for AI Chip Photonics→
  77. Jul 29, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft, Meta Earnings Put Wall Street's AI Patience to the Test→
  78. Jul 28, 2026AIMCP Ships Its Biggest Spec Update Since 2024 Launch10,000+ servers→
  79. Jul 27, 2026AIMicrosoft Launches First Cybersecurity AI Model, Agentic Platform→
  80. Jul 27, 2026AIMicrosoft Launches In-House Rival To Anthropic's Mythos96% CyberGym→
  81. Jul 27, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's $725B AI Bet Faces Earnings Reckoning→
  82. Jul 25, 2026AIGrok Comes To Google Workspace And Microsoft 365→
  83. Jul 24, 2026AIInside the 25-Company Letter Backing Openweight AI Models→
  84. Jul 24, 2026REGULATIONNvidia, Microsoft, Meta Lead 25-Firm Open-Weight AI Plea→
  85. Jul 24, 2026REGULATIONNvidia, Microsoft, Meta Lead 25-Company Push for Openweight AI Models→
  86. Jul 24, 2026BIG TECHMeta, Microsoft Face Renewed AI-Spending Unease Pre-Earnings→
  87. Jul 24, 2026AIMicrosoft Ships In-House AI Models, Claims 89% Cost CutUp to 89% GPU Cost Cut→
  88. Jul 23, 2026AIMicrosoft's New In-House AI Models Cut Costs Up to 89%→
  89. Jul 21, 2026AIMicrosoft Deepens Mistral Bet With Europe AI Infra Deal→
  90. Jul 20, 2026BIG TECHAMD Jumps as Microsoft Bets Azure on Helios Over NvidiaAMD +4-5% on deal news→
  91. Jul 19, 2026AIWhy Multi-Model Routing Just Became the Default Architecture→
  92. Jul 17, 2026AIMicrosoft Preps Project Perception to Rival Anthropic's Mythos→
  93. Jul 16, 2026AINadella Slams Anthropic as 'Editorially Controlled'→
  94. Jul 10, 2026AIAI Boom Puts Big Tech's Transparency to the Test→
  95. Jul 9, 2026BIG TECHOpenAI Says GPT-5.6 Is 'Preferred Model' for Copilot Amid Breakup Talk→
  96. Jul 9, 2026AIMicrosoft's AI Buildout Collides With Its Climate Goals→
  97. Jul 7, 2026FUNDINGAI Infrastructure Capex Keeps Concentrating in Fewer Hands$870B+ combined 2026 AI capex commitments→
  98. Jul 6, 2026AIMicrosoft Cuts Nearly 5,000 Jobs Across Xbox, Sales~4,800 roles cut, ~2.1% of workforce→
  99. Jul 6, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Guts Xbox and Commercial Teams, Cites AI's Pace~3,200 jobs, 5 studios cut→
  100. Jul 6, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Guts Commercial, Xbox Teams Citing AI-Era Pace4,800 roles cut→
  101. Jul 4, 2026AIWhy AI's Chip Arms Race Just Went Multi-Vendor3 parallel Anthropic chip tracks→
  102. Jul 2, 2026AIMicrosoft Launches $2.5B 'Frontier Company' to Embed 6,000 Engineers Inside AI Customers$2.5B AI deployment commitment→
  103. Jul 2, 2026AIMicrosoft Launches $2.5B 'Frontier Co.' Unit, Mobilizes 6,000 Workers to Push$2.5B new unit, ~6,000 employees→
  104. Jul 2, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft Commits $2.5B and 6,000 Staff to New AI Deployment Unit$2.5B / 6,000 employees→
  105. Jul 1, 2026FUNDINGIndian Tech Tycoon Bets $30M of His Own Money to Build an AI Alternative to Microsoft Office$30M self-funded→
  106. Jul 1, 2026AISerial Founder Bhavin Turakhia Bets $30M of His Own Money on an AI Alternative to Microsoft Office$30M self-funded→
  107. Jul 1, 2026AIAnthropic Brings Claude Fable 5 Back Globally After US Lifts Export Control OrderGlobal access restored→
  108. Jun 30, 2026BIG TECHBig Tech's 2026 AI Capex Will Hit $725B, up 77% Year-Over-Year$725B combined→
  109. Jun 27, 2026REGULATIONNYT Escalates Its AI Copyright War, Accusing Microsoft of Building a Supercomputer to Infringe at ScaleNYT v. OpenAI/Microsoft→
  110. Jun 24, 2026AINew Paper Argues Microsoft Exaggerated Its 'Majorana 1' Quantum Breakthrough→
  111. Jun 22, 2026BIG TECHMicrosoft and Chevron Plan One of the Largest Gas-Powered Data Centers in the USGas-powered megasite→
  112. Jun 18, 2026AIMicrosoft Uncovers a New Self-Propagating Backdoor Built to Steal Cryptocurrency→
  113. Jun 18, 2026REGULATIONMicrosoft Discovers New Self-Propagating Malware That Steals CryptocurrencyCrypto-stealing backdoor→

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BIG TECH

Big Tech Earnings: Google Cloud Up 103%, Azure 48%, AWS 39%

BIG TECH

Big Tech Earnings: Google Cloud Up 103%, Azure 48%, AWS 39%

Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Intel filed September-quarter results on Oct. 28 and 29. Google Cloud revenue rose 103%, Azure 48% and AWS 39%, while quarterly capex reached $51.4B at Alphabet and $39.4B at Microsoft.

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Plato Raises $16M Series A, Taps Microsoft AI's Suleyman As Investor

AI$16M Series A

Plato Raises $16M Series A, Taps Microsoft AI's Suleyman As Investor

Plato, the San Francisco startup building simulated workplaces where AI agents practice real jobs, raised a $16M Series A led by Nava Ventures, with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman joining as an investor.

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Private Equity Eyes $100B+ Buyout Of Microsoft's Xbox

BIG TECH$100B+ Buyout Interest

Private Equity Eyes $100B+ Buyout Of Microsoft's Xbox

Private equity firms reportedly weighed a buyout of Microsoft's Xbox division worth more than $100 billion, The Information reported, as the unit undergoes a leadership and cost overhaul under new CEO Asha Sharma.

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Microsoft Says Frontier AI Models 'Cannot Be Trusted'

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AI

Microsoft Says Frontier AI Models 'Cannot Be Trusted'

Microsoft is launching Guardian Agents and telling enterprises that frontier AI models from any provider, its own partners OpenAI and Anthropic included, cannot be fully trusted with autonomous access.

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Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays

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BIG TECH

Microsoft Pulls Out of Nscale's UK Data Center After Grid Delays

Microsoft has stepped back from Nscale's planned UK data center project after grid-connection delays pushed the facility's opening years behind schedule.

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CMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance

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REGULATION

CMA Pushes Tougher Terms On Microsoft's Office Dominance

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority proposed naming Microsoft 'strategically dominant' in business software, a status that could force new rules on how it bundles Office, Teams, and Copilot.

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BIG TECH

Amazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook

BIG TECH~$1B Write-down

Amazon's Panos Panay: How A $1B Failure Shaped His Playbook

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay told TechCrunch Disrupt that founders should extract lessons from failure, citing the roughly $1B Surface RT write-down from his Microsoft tenure as his clearest example.

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Microsoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput

BIG TECH

Microsoft's New Maia Chip Claims 7x More AI Throughput

Microsoft detailed its Maia 300 AI chip, claiming up to seven times the rack-scale throughput of its predecessor and 40% more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems, with multi-gigawatt deployment planned for 2027.

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Jefferies Warns AI's $2.3 Trillion Backlog Risks A Reset

FUNDING$2.3T contracted backlog

Jefferies Warns AI's $2.3 Trillion Backlog Risks A Reset

Jefferies estimates OpenAI and Anthropic owe roughly half of the $2.3 trillion AI infrastructure backlog at Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Oracle, and questions whether hyperscaler capex is paying off, The Register reported.

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REGULATION

Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline

REGULATION

Trump Admin Suspends Microsoft's Green Card Pipeline

JD Vance suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT outsourcing firms from the PERM green-card program on October 8th, arguing Microsoft abused H-1B visas while cutting 6,000 American jobs.

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Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules

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REGULATION

Microsoft's Brad Smith Says Britain Should Write AI's Rules

Microsoft's president argues the U.K., not Washington or Brussels, is best positioned to set global AI safety rules.

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PEOPLE

Peter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1

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PEOPLE

Peter Lee Leaves Microsoft Science For Mercedes F1

Microsoft's outgoing science president Peter Lee, who helped evaluate GPT-4 before its public release, is negotiating a newly created AI advisor role with the Mercedes Formula 1 team.

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Microsoft FAQ

How much revenue does Microsoft make?

In the quarter ended June 30, 2026, revenue was $90.0 billion, up 18%.[4],[7],[5]

Is Microsoft a public company?

Goldman Sachs was book-running manager of its initial public offering.[1]

What is Microsoft's market cap?

Microsoft's market capitalization was $3.79T as of September 4, 2026, according to companiesmarketcap.com.

What is Microsoft's revenue?

Microsoft's most recent revenue figure is $281.7B, reported by Microsoft Investor Relations, June 2025.

When was Microsoft founded and where is it based?

Microsoft was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, according to Wikipedia.

References

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  3. blogs.microsoft.com
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  5. globalventuring.com
  6. cxtoday.com
  7. companiesmarketcap.com
  8. TechCrunch
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