{"id":201011,"date":"2026-03-31T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:30:15","slug":"microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s stock closes worst quarter since 2008 financial crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis.html\">Microsoft&#8217;s stock closes worst quarter since 2008 financial crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-31 16:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an unordered summary of the article, highlighting 6 key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Microsoft\u2019s Stock Performance<\/strong>: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke at an event in Munich, Germany, amidst a significant downturn in Microsoft\u2019s stock, which had its worst quarterly performance since the 2008 financial crisis with a 23% drop despite a 17% revenue growth.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>AI Struggles<\/strong>: Microsoft&#8217;s AI assistant, Copilot, has not gained traction with users, leading to competition from services by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic as users move to competing products. This struggle is putting pressure on their cloud AI infrastructure, especially amidst rising oil prices affecting data center costs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Copilot Leadership Changes<\/strong>: Mustafa Suleyman, previously leading Copilot development, was shifted to focus on AI models, raising some concerns, whereas Jacob Andreou was appointed to lead Copilot\u2019s consumer and commercial client experience.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Azure Success<\/strong>: Despite Copilot struggles, Microsoft\u2019s Azure division shows robust growth, with a 39% increase in revenue. The division has a substantial backlog and growing performance obligations, indicating strong demand in cloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Market Decline in SaaS<\/strong>: Microsoft and other software companies are feeling the impact of what is being termed an AI-inspired \u201cSaaSpocalypse,\u201d where software-as-a-service companies are facing significant stock value declines linked to challenges in traditional SaaS models.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Analyst Opinions<\/strong>: Despite mixed feelings, some analysts believe that Microsoft&#8217;s fundamentals are strong. They cite the company\u2019s enduring dominance in productivity software such as Microsoft 365 and Azure&#8217;s steady growth, viewing the current market dip as a buying opportunity.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s stock closes worst quarter since 2008 financial crisis https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/03\/31\/microsofts-stock-closes-worst-quarter-since-2008-financial-crisis.html Publish Date: 2026-03-31 16:19:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108285098-1774917942238-gettyimages-2262969012-20090101260225-99-646954.jpeg?v=1774918005&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201013,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201011\/revisions\/201013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}