Microsoft has been in the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a technical stallwart, which was almost taken as a lifestyle because the Internet embraced.
As a company, established with a vision of putting computers in every household and office, celebrates its 50th anniversary on Friday, it wants to promote its fate as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a leader in the fast-development field.
“From the point of view of a story, they are a boring company and a boring stock,” Emarketer analyst Jeremy Goldman said about Richmond, Behemoth at Washington.
“It’s fun because they have a $ 2.9 trillion market cap, and it is very large,” he continued, referring to the value of Microsoft based on its share price.
The only company with high market cap is the iPhone manufacturer Apple.
Cloud computing is promoting the revenue of Microsoft with the help of its omnipresent office software, which has now been hosted online and is no longer released in floppy disk or CD boxes.
Goldman said about Microsoft’s data center and software on the foundation of his cloud-cum-cum-coting platform, “This is not a very sexy infrastructure, but it is very valuable.”
Amazon web services (AWS) and Google Microsoft have cloud-computing rivals.
‘Micro-Soft’
Badal Gates and childhood friend Paul Ellen called the “Micro-Soft” in 1975, when Badal Gates and childhood friend Paul Allen had weather forecasts instead of establishing Paul Allen.
He launched the MS-Doss operating system known as “Windows” and went to run most of the world’s computers.
Microsoft Office programs including Word, Excel and PowerPoint became standard business equipment, even shut down Google Docs software.
Goldman said, “Microsoft had a lot of businesses that were weak and challenging – the correct example office.”
“This office is still such a meaningful business for him, the way he was able to innovate, says something about him.”
Current Chief Executive Satya Nadella shifted a microsoft to provide its software about any device hosted in Cloud.
The analyst said the move saved Microsoft from watching free services like Google Docs.
‘Achilles heel’
Microsoft lives in the shadow of other American technical giants, when it comes to prasads such as social networks, smartphones and AI-infected digital assistants that are woven in people’s lives, but it is not for lack of effort.
Microsoft introduced the Xbox video game console in 2001, constantly constructed its stable construction of its studio, which two years ago buys blockbusters of activation icy storm and added an online subscription service to the players.
And despite the launch of the Bing search engine in 2009, Google still dominates that market.
In 2016, Microsoft bought a career-centric social network LinkedIn, which has seen a steady growth. But it still lacks the access to Meta’s Facebook or Instagram, or the effect of Elon Musk’s X (East Twitter).
Microsoft is one of the runners to buy Tiktok, who faces a ban in the United States if not sold by China-based biodenses.
While Apple and Google have excelled in making it easy or fun to connect with products for users, according to Goldman, “Achilles Heel” for Microsoft has been.
The analyst said, “It has never been his strong suit.”
Mobile miss
Known to focus on sales rather than innovation, Steve Balmer, who followed Gates as heads of Microsoft from 2000 to 2013, is faulty for remembering changes in smartphones and other mobile computing devices.
His successor, Nadella, has taken over Microsoft with a pledge to make a “mobile-first, cloud-first” company and Microsoft has invested heavily in AI, taking a stake in Chatgpt-manufacturer Openai and produced technology in offerings including Bing, although a little advantage.
Back in AI?
Independent analyst Jack Gold believes that despite those investments and efforts, Microsoft lags behind in AI because it lacks its own chips or foundation models.
“They are not as advanced as AWS and Google, so they are still playing a little catchup at that place,” Gold said about Microsoft.
The analyst stated that the revenue growth of Google Cloud is at the speed of Microsoft’s Azure to the second place in the market in two years.
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