How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars — and Why Wall Street Still Can’t Agree on What Comes Next

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How Microsoft vaporized a trillion dollars – OSnews

This is the first of a series of articles in which you will learn about what may be one of the silliest, most preventable, and most costly mishaps of the 21st century, where Microsoft all but lost OpenAI, its largest customer, and the trust of the US government. ↫ Axel Rietschin It won’t take long into this series of articles before you start wondering how anyone manages to ship anything at Microsoft. If even half of this is accurate, this compa…

How Microsoft Vaporized a Trillion Dollars — and Why Wall Street Still Can’t Agree on What Comes Next

In the span of roughly two months, Microsoft shed more than $1 trillion in market capitalization. Not because of an accounting scandal. Not because of a product failure. Because the market decided, almost overnight, that the largest AI bet in corporate history might not pay off on schedule. The stock dropped from its all-time high near $468 in early July 2024 to below $385 by early April 2025 — a decline of roughly 18%. For a company of Microsof…