{"id":1031572,"date":"2026-08-27T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031572"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:59:34","slug":"satya-nadella-recently-shared-a-rare-data-point-said-that-annual-revenue-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-division-topped-100-billion-but-why-it-left-some-analysts-unhappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/satya-nadella-recently-shared-a-rare-data-point-said-that-annual-revenue-of-microsofts-cloud-computing-division-topped-100-billion-but-why-it-left-some-analysts-unhappy\/","title":{"rendered":"Satya Nadella recently shared a rare data point, said that annual revenue of Microsoft&#8217;s Cloud computing division topped $100 billion; but why it left some analysts &#8216;unhappy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s cloud business recently crossed a major milestone, but the company still isn\u2019t telling investors the full story, a report has said. CEO Satya Nadella revealed on an earnings call that Azure\u2019s annual revenue has topped $100 billion for the first time \u2013 which is a rare disclosure from a company that has long kept its cloud numbers under wraps. Yet even this headline figure hasn\u2019t been enough to satisfy analysts, who reportedly say Microsoft&#8217;s financial reporting remains far less transparent than its biggest rivals. Across three key pillars shaping the company\u2019s AI future, its cloud business, its capital spending and its ties with OpenAI, Microsoft&#8217;s disclosures fall noticeably short of what shareholders would ideally want to see, as per a report by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s cloud business recently crossed a major milestone, but the company still isn\u2019t telling investors the full story, a report has said. CEO Satya Nadella revealed on an earnings call that Azure\u2019s annual revenue has topped $100 billion for the first time \u2013 which is a rare disclosure from a company that has long kept its cloud numbers under wraps. Yet even this headline figure hasn\u2019t been enough to satisfy analysts, who reportedly say Microsoft&#8217;s financial reporting remains far less transparent than its biggest rivals. Across three key pillars shaping the company\u2019s AI future, its cloud business, its capital spending [&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-1031572","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\/1031572","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=1031572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031573,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031572\/revisions\/1031573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}