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Microsoft shareholders reject call to invest in Bitcoin, but company doesn’t entirely rule it out

Microsoft shareholders turned down a proposal calling on the company to consider diversifying its investments by including Bitcoin in the… Read More

Microsoft shareholders reject proposals to further study AI’s risks to its business

Microsoft investors turned down six shareholder proposals at its annual meeting Tuesday, three of them focused on the risks of… Read More

Microsoft’s earnings report will offer a new gauge for AI demand and cloud investments

Microsoft’s earnings report Tuesday afternoon, July 30, will provide new insights into the impact of artificial intelligence on its business,… Read More

New numbers show Microsoft shed more than 16,000 jobs in nine months

Microsoft’s global headcount dropped to 215,500 people as of Sept. 30, a decline of more than 16,000 from its peak… Read More

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Lumen CEO Kate Johnson on Seattle tech, AI, lessons from Microsoft, and ‘cloudifying’ telecom

Kate Johnson is based in Denver in her role as Lumen Technologies CEO and president, but she has been spending… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: Growth slows as tech giant awaits payoff from big AI bets

Barring a big surprise, the sluggish economy will continue to take a toll on Microsoft’s overall growth in its financial… Read More

What Microsoft’s numbers say about the state of the tech economy

Things really began to change in December. That’s when Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform started to lose some of its momentum,… Read More

How the economy is hitting the Amazon and Microsoft clouds, and what they’re doing about it

After soaring during the pandemic, the cloud is getting dragged down by the economy, and both of the Seattle region’s… Read More

Microsoft’s belt-tightening is the latest sign of the economic times

“As we manage through this period, we will continue to invest in future growth while maintaining intense focus on operational… Read More

New filing: Microsoft added record 40,000 employees in past year, up 22%, before job cuts

Hiring and acquisitions boosted employment to record levels at Microsoft as of the end of the company’s recent fiscal year,… Read More

Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market

Microsoft’s global employee count grew to nearly 190,000 people at the end of the September quarter, a net increase of… Read More

Microsoft execs field questions on diversity, Windows 7 holdouts, and offbeat campus plan at annual Q&A session

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Q&A portion of Microsoft’s annual meeting is the one time each year that shareholders in the… Read More

Microsoft: Commercial cloud revenue to jump 55% to nearly $15B this fiscal year

Microsoft says total revenue from its commercial cloud businesses will reach an estimated $14.8 billion in its current fiscal year, ending June 30… Read More

Advice for leaders from Microsoft CFO Amy Hood: ‘Every risk I took built confidence’

Microsoft CFO Amy Hood has advice for folks that lack the confidence needed to work their way up a company:… Read More

New Microsoft technology sniffs out hackers lurking on in-house corporate networks

Hackers are notorious for lurking on corporate networks for months, logging in via stolen user credentials and surreptitiously gathering information… Read More

Microsoft’s big overhaul could reshape its financial reporting

Microsoft is set to announce a long-rumored internal reorganization as early as Thursday, according to a report overnight by AllThingsD,… Read More

Microsoft stock hits 5-year high as Gates reclaims world’s richest title

It’s a good day to be Bill Gates. According to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, Gates’ reclaimed the title of world’s richest… Read More