AI Dominates the Microsoft Conversation, but Not the Company's Business
The financial results just sound silly, with market capitalization in the trillions and revenues in the hundreds of billions.This may all sound like funny money, but its real money and there is nothing funny about it. Microsoft is a credible alternative to Oracle in applications and middleware, is nipping at the heels of Amazon Web Services in the cloud racket, and is now partnering broadly to bring all manner of AI models to bear through its own services as well as through the Azure cloud. In a world where size most assuredly matters – only the rich can steer AI because it requires so much expensive hardware to advance the state of the art – Microsoft is big enough to control its own fate.
- ▪The financial results just sound silly, with market capitalization in the trillions and revenues in the hundreds of billions.This may all sound like funny money, but its real money and there is nothing funny about it.
- ▪Microsoft is a credible alternative to Oracle in applications and middleware, is nipping at the heels of Amazon Web Services in the cloud racket, and is now partnering broadly to bring all manner of AI models to bear through its own service
- ▪In a world where size most assuredly matters – only the rich can steer AI because it requires so much expensive hardware to advance the state of the art – Microsoft is big enough to control its own fate.
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| Publication time | Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:29:20 +0000 |
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