💼 Microsoft further strengthens its investment in AI: Copilot is changing the future of productivity 🚀
Tech giant Microsoft $MSFT continues its efforts to transform its software with artificial intelligence technologies .
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MSFTThe latest update Microsoft 365which includes key applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams, adds more ways to use Copilot, aimed at increasing user efficiency and productivity.
Key innovations include Copilot Pages - a new team collaboration tool that allows data to be accessed, edited and analysed on a single page using AI.
Copilot Studio is back with a feature Agent Builder, which makes it easy to create personalized AI agents to automate business processes. These AI assistants can, for example, answer questions about benefits or automatically process data from company documents.
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Microsoft is rolling out these innovations as part of a broader strategy to strengthen its market position and overtake competitors like Google and Salesforce. The company has seen the number of customers using Copilotincrease by more than 60 % compared to the previous quarter, with more employees using Copilot every day at work. For example, Vodafone purchased 68,000 Copilotlicenses for its 100,000 employees.
💡 New buyback program and dividend increase 💰
The other big news is the announcement of a new $60 billionshare buyback program (CZK 1.35 trillion), a record for Microsoft to date . This program replaces a similar one from 2021 and has no set end date.
In addition, the company increased its quarterly dividend by 10 %, which is more good news. The new dividend will be 83 cents per share, up from the current 75 cents. The dividend is scheduled to be paid on November 21.
Microsoft continues to benefit from its partnership with OpenAI, and continues to integrate artificial intelligence technologies across its key products such as Teams, Word and Outlook. For example, Excel will now get support for the programming language Python and Outlook will add features to better prioritise emails.
Overall, I think Microsoft is doing everything it can to maintain its growth trend and solidify its position as the market leader in AI. Share buybacks, dividend growth and AI innovation are clear signals that the company is thinking long-term and focused on sustained value growth for its shareholders.
What do you think of Microsoft? And who do you think is the market leader in AI?
Microsoft is clearly in the top companies not only in AI. It's a great company. Maybe a bit more expensive at the moment, but you just pay for quality. I have Microsoft in my portfolio and plan to keep it going.
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It's definitely a cool company in the tech sector (AI sector take). Despite that, I prefer $GOOG+0.9% and maybe $NVDA-1.6% and $AMD-0.5%. Since I have too many tech stocks, I don't plan to include $MSFT-0.8% in my portfolio.
I prefer $GOOG+0.9% and trust them more, but $MSFT-0.8% is also doing very well. They are innovating and getting better at AI all the time.