Microsoft (MSFT) News & Analysis

Microsoft is encouraging Skype users to connect through Teams instead.

RIP, Skype. Microsoft is shutting down the service that it paid $8.5 billion for in 2011.

Microsoft said it will shut down Skype, the internet calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011. Users will be invited to switch to Teams.

Microsoft Corp. is signaling the end of the line for Skype, the iconic internet calling and chat service it bought almost 14 years ago. Once a byword for digital calls that bypassed long-distance charges, Skype was surpassed in recent years by smartph…

After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. S…

Microsoft finally released a macOS app for Copilot, its free generative AI chatbot.  Similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, Copilot enables users to ask questions and receive responses generated by AI. Copilot is designed to assist use…

Amazon stock gained after the company revealed its first quantum chip, matching moves from rivals Microsoft and Google.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip. The news brings it into line with its big cloud rivals Microsoft and Google, which have also unveiled their own quantum chips in recent months, respectively Majorana and…

Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU. The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two mo…

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Microsoft and Amazon stock investors should be paying attention.

Microsoft is reportedly shrinking its data center footprint. The tech giant has canceled leases with multiple data center providers that total a “couple hundred megawatts” of capacity, according to Bloomberg, which cited a memo from investm…

Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Alibaba and Nvidia have been highlighted in this Investment Ideas article.

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TEF & Microsoft expand collaboration to drive the Open Gateway adoption with AI-powered Kernel, transforming telecom networks into programmable platforms.

In response, Microsoft told BI it "may strategically pace or adjust our infrastructure in some areas" and would "continue to grow strongly."

Palantir stock fell again Monday as reports over Microsoft pulling back on data center leases pressured artificial intelligence names.
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A year before Elon Musk helped start OpenAI in San Francisco, philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen already had established his own nonprofit artificial intelligence research laboratory in Seattle.Their mission was to advance AI for humani…

A lot is riding on the Nvidia earnings announcement this week. Is the stock about to tumble again, dragging down the AI industry?

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Microsoft has pledged to spend at least $80 billion over the course of its fiscal year, which ends in June, on new data center construction.

Is Microsoft starting to have doubts after artificial-intelligence demand?