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Microsoft is a technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, now led by CEO Satya Nadella since 2014 . Under Nadella's tenure, Azure grew from roughly $1 billion to $660 billion in revenue, driving total company revenue up 2.5× and profit more than 3×, with the stock nearly 10× and market cap adding nearly $3 trillion .

The company's strategic evolution traces from its early PC-era dominance—purchasing 86-DOS in 1980 to become IBM's partner, then breaking that exclusivity to license broadly, and bundling Word, Excel and PowerPoint into Office in the 1990s —through missed opportunities in search and mobile, to its current AI-centered fourth transformation . Microsoft has positioned "Copilot" as its generative AI brand, embedding it across Windows, Surface devices, Xbox and productivity tools .

Its AI strategy rests heavily on a multi-billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI dating to 2019, including an initial $1 billion investment and later a $10 billion follow-on, which brought exclusive code licensing for ChatGPT and a 75% profit share until payback . The company has also invested in humanoid robotics (Figure AI) and signed a power purchase agreement with fusion startup Helion , while collaborating with Meta on VR apps and Khan Academy on AI education tools .

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