{"id":1000895,"date":"2026-04-02T11:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000895"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T05:55:32","slug":"microsoft-closes-its-worst-quarter-on-wall-street-since-the-2008-as-almost-all-openai-gains-wiped-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/02\/microsoft-closes-its-worst-quarter-on-wall-street-since-the-2008-as-almost-all-openai-gains-wiped-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft closes its worst quarter on Wall Street since the 2008, as almost all OpenAI gains wiped out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reportedly recorded its steepest quarterly decline since the 2008 financial crisis. The software giant\u2019s stock dropped 23% in the first quarter amid investor sentiment that reportedly weakened around the company\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. According to a CNBC report, the decline in the company\u2019s market value outpaced both its tech peers and the Nasdaq, which dropped 7% during the same period. The latest decline may have wiped out almost all the gains Microsoft made from its 2019 OpenAI investment.<\/p>\n<p>The sell-off reflects concerns over Microsoft\u2019s ability to balance heavy investment in AI infrastructure with delivering growth, even as it continues to lead in areas such as Windows and enterprise software. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has reportedly recorded its steepest quarterly decline since the 2008 financial crisis. The software giant\u2019s stock dropped 23% in the first quarter amid investor sentiment that reportedly weakened around the company\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. According to a CNBC report, the decline in the company\u2019s market value outpaced both its tech peers and the Nasdaq, which dropped 7% during the same period. The latest decline may have wiped out almost all the gains Microsoft made from its 2019 OpenAI investment. The sell-off reflects concerns over Microsoft\u2019s ability to balance heavy investment in AI infrastructure with delivering growth, even as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}