{"id":951906,"date":"2025-08-01T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951906"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T06:21:49","slug":"microsoft-stops-30-year-old-practice-and-drops-apple-ibm-meta-nvidia-from-this-its-list-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/microsoft-stops-30-year-old-practice-and-drops-apple-ibm-meta-nvidia-from-this-its-list-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft stops 30-year-old practice and drops Apple, IBM, Meta, Nvidia from this its list of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has opted not to name its rivals in its latest annual report, in a significant shift from a nearly 30-year tradition, a report has pointed out. The 101-page document, released this week, contains no direct references to competitors like Apple, Google and IBM, nor newer private challengers such as Anthropic or Databricks. This marks a notable departure for the 50-year-old technology giant, which has listed its competitors in annual reports since at least 1994. Last year&#8217;s report, for instance, explicitly designated over 25 companies as rivals.<\/p>\n<p>What is the \u2018Big change\u2019 that Microsoft has brought in its annual report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has opted not to name its rivals in its latest annual report, in a significant shift from a nearly 30-year tradition, a report has pointed out. The 101-page document, released this week, contains no direct references to competitors like Apple, Google and IBM, nor newer private challengers such as Anthropic or Databricks. This marks a notable departure for the 50-year-old technology giant, which has listed its competitors in annual reports since at least 1994. Last year&#8217;s report, for instance, explicitly designated over 25 companies as rivals. What is the \u2018Big change\u2019 that Microsoft has brought in its annual report<\/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-951906","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\/951906","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=951906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}