Microsoft Hits $4 Trillion Milestone as AI and Cloud Propel Growth
Jul/31/2025
Just weeks after Nvidia crossed the $4 trillion threshold, Microsoft has joined the club, its market value soaring on the back of booming demand for artificial intelligence and its Azure cloud platform, which notched $75 billion in annual revenue, up 34% from last year. The Redmond-based giant, long adept at reinventing itself—from the early Windows licensing coup with IBM PCs to its deft pivot into cloud subscriptions — has positioned AI as the centerpiece of its future strategy, with customers like OpenAI and Meta fueling Azure’s expansion. While rivals such as Amazon Web Services still hold the revenue crown, Microsoft’s aggressive push into generative AI has become the engine of its latest ascent. At the same time, the company is quietly expanding its intellectual property arsenal, filing new U.S. trademarks including M365, an umbrella brand for a vast suite of cloud, productivity, and security services, and ZAVA, aimed at online training and consulting in cloud computing. Together, these moves illustrate how Microsoft is reinforcing both its technical edge and its legal fortifications as it seeks not merely to keep pace with the AI boom, but to define it.
