Preston Gralla
Contributing Editor at Computerworld
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Preston Gralla is the author of more than 40 books about technology and a contributing editor and Windows blogger and columnist for Computerworld.
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1 month ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft is on top of the world right now, riding its AI dominance to become the world’s second-most valuable company, worth somewhere in the vicinity of $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. But that could easily change — and not because competitors have found a way to topple it as king of AI.
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1 month ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft has ridden its multibillion-dollar investments in generative AI (genAI) to become the world’s second-most valuable company, with a valuation of roughly $3 trillion, depending on the day’s stock price. This year, it plans to invest $80 billion on data center costs alone, and that doesn’t count how much it’s spending to build its in-house AI team. At some point, though, Microsoft needs to start getting serious revenue from its genAI investments.
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1 month ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
Microsoft and Apple were once the yin and yang of the tech world. Microsoft was dull and plodding, milking buggy, barely-good-enough-for-prime-time Windows for tremendous profits, thanks to a worldwide operating system monopoly. The company was incapable of creating new, innovative products, and relied on sharp-elbowed (and potentially illegal) business practices to stay atop the tech world. Apple was its polar opposite.
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2 months ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
The release of the latest version of the Chinese genAI bot DeepSeek last month upended the tech world when its creators claimed it was built for only $6 million — far less than the hundreds of billions of dollars Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and others have poured into genAI development. The shockwaves were immediate. GenAI-related stocks took a nosedive, losing hundreds of billions of dollars in value overnight.
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2 months ago |
computerworld.com | Preston Gralla
It’s going to be a long four years for Microsoft as the company tries to navigate the stormy chaos and pledges of retribution that follow wherever President Donald J. Trump’s mind wanders. Though he’s been president for only a little more than a week, Trump has already unleashed a tsunami of actions that could affect the company: declaring war on diversity (DEI) efforts, removing the guardrails former President Biden placed around AI, and demanding undying fealty as far as his eyes can see.
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Microsoft claims Big Tech and the feds need to regulate A.I. If so, why did the company kill its most important ethics team regulating A.I. months ago, as I reported a few days ago in my Computerworld column? https://t.co/VkV8n5TbqO https://t.co/xglLh3Ob8R
Rabbit apocalypse: How can I stop them from eating all the herbs and greens in my urban garden, without resorting to the stew pot? https://t.co/DAa2LL9dfI
What happens to everyday life when missiles rain from the sky? I review "War Diary" by Yevgenia Belorusets, which chronicles life in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, after the Russian invasion. It blends the visceral with the mundane, dread replacing normalcy. https://t.co/CfdkS5jlcA