{"id":1005805,"date":"2026-04-30T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005805"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:33:32","slug":"microsoft-expects-strong-cloud-business-growth-plans-record-capital-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/microsoft-expects-strong-cloud-business-growth-plans-record-capital-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft expects strong cloud business growth, plans record capital spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday forecast that sales at its Azure cloud business would beat Wall Street estimates, and the software giant unveiled plans for 2026 capital spending of $190 billion, which also surpassed expectations. <\/p>\n<p>After the forecast, Microsoft shares were even with their close, rebounding from a fall of more than 2% in extended trading after quarterly results showed only a modest increase in cloud revenue growth. Rival Google reported a stronger rise in cloud growth and Alphabet shares surged more than 4% after hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Wednesday forecast that sales at its Azure cloud business would beat Wall Street estimates, and the software giant unveiled plans for 2026 capital spending of $190 billion, which also surpassed expectations. After the forecast, Microsoft shares were even with their close, rebounding from a fall of more than 2% in extended trading after quarterly results showed only a modest increase in cloud revenue growth. Rival Google reported a stronger rise in cloud growth and Alphabet shares surged more than 4% after hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005805","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005831,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005805\/revisions\/1005831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}