{"id":988454,"date":"2026-01-29T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988454"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:17:25","slug":"microsoft-capital-spending-jumps-cloud-revenue-fails-to-impress-shares-drop-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/microsoft-capital-spending-jumps-cloud-revenue-fails-to-impress-shares-drop-after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft capital spending jumps, cloud revenue fails to impress, shares drop after hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Wednesday it had spent a record amount on artificial intelligence in the last quarter and posted slower cloud-computing growth, worrying investors who had expected a major payoff from the \u2060outlay and its mega-deal with OpenAI. Microsoft&#8217;s shares tumbled 6.5% in after-market trading after the company released its fiscal second-quarter financial results. The tech giant&#8217;s strategic partnership with OpenAI, which plans to spend at least $281 billion with Microsoft, was once seen by investors as its strongest competitive advantage in the artificial intelligence race. But that has morphed into a possible drawback for the Redmond, Washington-based firm as Google&#8217;s Gemini makes progress in winning massive customers such as Apple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said on Wednesday it had spent a record amount on artificial intelligence in the last quarter and posted slower cloud-computing growth, worrying investors who had expected a major payoff from the \u2060outlay and its mega-deal with OpenAI. Microsoft&#8217;s shares tumbled 6.5% in after-market trading after the company released its fiscal second-quarter financial results. The tech giant&#8217;s strategic partnership with OpenAI, which plans to spend at least $281 billion with Microsoft, was once seen by investors as its strongest competitive advantage in the artificial intelligence race. But that has morphed into a possible drawback for the Redmond, Washington-based firm as [&hellip;]<\/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-988454","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\/988454","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=988454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}