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zmmmmmyesterday at 11:47 PM2 repliesview on HN

the hit to microsoft the other day was pretty interesting

I saw reports attributing it to a miss on earnings from Azure but they were off by 0.4% on 39% growth. That's 39% instead of 39.4%. And the company stock dropped 10%. This is all of Microsoft - 10% down (!).

It has to tell you there are a LOT of people primed to sell in a hurry on bad news. The "bubble" talk subsided a lot after nVidia smashed earnings last quarter, but largely overlooked how much their whole situation is based on pent up demand. It completely masks the fundamentals.

I still feel like we're sitting on a volcano and seeing puffs of smoke and feeling earth tremors.


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fullsharktoday at 12:01 AM

The intense race to dump the risk on the public and cash out (OpenAI ipo, Musk folding xAI into SpaceX for that IPO) is very telling.

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spacephysicstoday at 2:27 AM

As I understand it, it was in part about their Azure miss more about capital expenditure and market anxiety around their OpenAI investment ROI.

Also a portion of their Azure spend was some clever accounting they did if memory serves me

https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsofts-historic-plunge-why...