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Now we move on to Microsoft. It has been a busy week for Microsoft. Its shares started the week at 493 , then rose 4.5%, including more than 3.5% today, and closed the week at 316.

Sorry, not 316. Not Stone Cold. We are talking about the 516 for Microsoft.

This comes in conjunction with the company's launch of what I call the enterprise version of Muse . The company is not slowing down with regard to Copilot. They have updated Copilot , and from what I've seen—and this isn't a product I've personally used, but I'm trying to get feedback from enough people who use it—whether you work for a company or organization that has a license to use it, and perhaps its use is required of you in your work, feel free to share your opinion on Copilot in the comments below, and I'd like to know more about the developments they're making .

Are Microsoft programs perfect? Probably not. Are there always some flaws? usually. But what I like about this program, and I saw a demonstration of it , is that it is multimedia.

It's a much better version of Copilot, and I think we talked about that in last week's episode , and how they're working on making it available to large companies at a lower price when they buy a large number of licenses at once.

As you know, the beginning of this year was terrible for many of our accounts because we own Microsoft shares, and I felt like an idiot when it dropped from 579 or whatever price it was to whatever level it reached.

But, as you know, she's back now. I would never have known when to buy it back, even if I had been smart enough to sell it at the top, which is impossible, and then buy it back at the bottom.

My clients' situation would have been much worse. So, you just have to stick to it unless things get grossly overvalued, which, as you know, is possible.

Microsoft has received a sign of confidence from Stifel, which upgraded the tech giant to a 'buy' rating from 'hold'. The company raised its price target from 530 to 575. This means it is about 15 percent higher than yesterday's closing price.

Stifel expects strong growth in Microsoft's Azure cloud business and increasing use of Copilot and GitHub.

Let's focus on Microsoft 's annual chart . Its shares have fallen 2% year-on-year, but are up 40% from their lows in late June. We recall that we saw a significant decline, but it recovered from those low levels as investors, including Microsoft, became more interested in the software sector .

The company made good profits, and its shares received a positive recommendation this morning.

I believe that Microsoft remains a key element in the entire artificial intelligence ecosystem. To such an extent that Azure's AI architecture is a major catalyst for the growth of enterprise cloud computing.

This is evident from Microsoft's allocation of US$116 billion to venture capital in building artificial intelligence infrastructure, an increase of over 80% year-on-year. This figure includes custom- designed silicon chips , as well as the expansion of graphics processing unit (GPU) clusters implemented by the company.

Growth may then slow down at a time when technology giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Oracle, and SpaceX are investing enormous sums in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

if you look at my most important investment assets, you'll find that they usually tend to be Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. These are the giants in whom I already put most of my money .

The reason is that I feel the bigger they get , the more impregnable and difficult their competitive trenches become to penetrate.