company

Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational technology conglomerate. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded it in 1975 to market BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Satya Nadella has been its chief executive since February 2014.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Satya Nadella

Key facts

Founded: April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.source
Chief executive since: February 2014source
LinkedIn acquisition: 2016source
Market value: Third publicly traded U.S. company to be valued at over $1 trillion, in April 2019source
Activision Blizzard acquisition: 2023source

WYDE coverage of Microsoft

WYDE Newsroom has published 2 articles about Microsoft, from Jun 27, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026. Microsoft is the subject of 1 story and a donor in 1 story. The most recent is Microsoft MAI-DxO Diagnoses 83% of Hard Cases in Simulated Tests.

Microsoft MAI-DxO Diagnoses 83% of Hard Cases in Simulated Tests

Microsoft AI's diagnostic system outscored generalist doctors on complex simulated cases from the New England Journal of Medicine, but the study measured accuracy, not patient outcomes.

Oct 24, 2026 · 3 min read · Subject of the story

Raimondo and Holcomb Launch RAISE US, a $1 Billion AI Workforce Nonprofit

RAISE US, a nonpartisan nonprofit led by Gina Raimondo and Eric Holcomb, has secured over $500 million toward a $1 billion goal to retrain American workers for the AI economy, with Amazon, Microsoft, Anthropic, and the OpenAI Foundation as anchor partners.

Jun 27, 2026 · 2 min read · Donor

Reported alongside Microsoft

Amazon · in 1 story with Microsoft
Anthropic · in 1 story with Microsoft
Bank of America · in 1 story with Microsoft
OpenAI Foundation · in 1 story with Microsoft
RAISE US · in 1 story with Microsoft

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