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What is Microsoft at 50?

[Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Starting today and in the months ahead, we’ll revisit some of Microsoft’s biggest milestones, missteps, and turning points to understand the company’s journey to this point, and what’s next.] ...

What is the story of AI at Microsoft?

The story of AI at Microsoft begins even before the company got its start, with the science fiction books that inspired co-founder Paul Allen to dream about a future in which robots and other intelligent machines would complement and assist humans. Hints of AI are sprinkled throughout the company’s early years. ...

Will Microsoft spend billions more on AI infrastructure?

But more than impressing the chairs of the 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, the research helped to convince Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and other senior leaders to spend billions more on AI infrastructure. ...

Why are Microsoft's shares up 80% in the past two years?

Microsoft’s shares are up more than 80% in the past two years, largely fueled by the potential that investors see for AI to drive future growth in the company’s business. But many of these early examples are low-hanging fruit, benefitting in part from being early to market. ...

Is Ai the future of Microsoft?

“There’s so much potential with AI for the dream of what Microsoft was created to be doing,” said longtime Microsoft research leader and AI specialist Eric Horvitz, who is now the company’s chief scientific officer. “Computing is an incredibly empowering force for the planet, for empowering people to do new things.” ...

Is Ai a new era for software developers?

Scott, the Microsoft CTO, appeared on stage with OpenAI’s Altman this year at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, characterizing recent developments in AI as the dawn of a new era, and a whole new opportunity for software developers. ...