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Adding ChatGPT to Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which has only a fraction of the global search-engine market, and a new deal with OpenAI could help Microsoft chip away at Google’s iron grip on the market by offering more advanced search capabilities.
After all, this was Microsoft’s chance to make a big splash, to show how genAI could improve the world’s most popular desktop and laptop operating system, installed on an estimated 1.4 billion PCs.
Amy Hood, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said on a call with investors that sales growth in the current quarter could be flat compared with unusually strong quarter a year ago.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/business/microsoft-quarterly-earnings.html
As a benchmark for the way things used to be, Microsoft Cloud revenue was up 24% to $25.7 billion in the first fiscal quarter, ended Sept. 30, as Microsoft’s overall revenue rose 11% to more than $50 billion.
As for innovation, many of its products have been me-too copycats that became successful largely by piggybacking onto Microsoft’s worldwide laptop and desktop operating system monopoly of Windows.
Bing launched in 2009 as a rebranding of Microsoft’s earlier search engines and was run for a time by Nadella, years before he took over as CEO.
Brace yourselves for another feature covering Microsoft’s proposed merger with Activision.
British antitrust regulators on Wednesday blocked Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard,.
Source: https://www.onenewspage.com/n/Business/1zpl8khrpu/Alert-UK-blocks-Microsoft-purchase-of-Call-of.htm
But the regulator said last week it was considering Microsoft’s argument that new developments mean its industry-leading acquisition should go ahead.
By way of a brief recap, HMD Global emerged from the ashes of Microsoft’s ill-conceived Nokia devices acquisition a decade ago, a move that spawned a $7 billion “goodwill” writedown following Satya Nadella’s promotion to the CEO hot seat.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/03/nokia-hmd-global-europe-smartphone/
By way of comparison, Microsoft’s OneDrive costs me $70 for 1TB per year and I get a full version of Microsoft Office to boot.
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/819871/novabackup-review.html
Chromebook versus laptop discussion, Chromebooks like the 11-inch Lenovo Chromebook 3 are flagged as sleeker, quicker, and cheaper counterparts of laptops that are powered by Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s Mac.
Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/lenovo-chromebook-3-deal-lenovo-april-2023/
Despite all the internal pushback, the was able to find some champions in Microsoft’s upper management.
Source: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-games-xbox-minesweeper-tetris-bill-gates-book-1850154914
For more specific information, you should consult Microsoft’s security advisories.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/05/10/cve-2023-29324/
From Microsoft’s point of view, the important part of that history involves Spectrum HoloByte and Mirrorsoft.
Source: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-games-xbox-minesweeper-tetris-bill-gates-book-1850154914
He dispassionately examined Microsoft’s product line and killed off loser products, notably the company’s multi-billion-dollar money pit Windows Phone.
He made incendiary remarks about Demis Hassabis, the head of Google’s DeepMind A.I. initiative, and, later, about Microsoft’s competing effort.
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule
Hood said that Microsoft’s head count at the end of December was 19 percent higher year over year, with 6 points from the acquisition of voice-to-text company and advertising technology company Xandr.
Source: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/microsoft-earnings-call-new-business-slowdown-big-ai-bets
How Generative AI Changes Strategy, HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius speaks to Microsoft’s head of strategy Chris Young and Harvard Business School professor Andy Wu.
Source: https://hbr.org/podcast/2023/05/how-generative-ai-changes-strategy
If they do, Microsoft’s gaming clout will only get stronger.