Microsoft passes Google in market value. Next up? Amazon

[dineshb316]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can brag to Bill Gates that the company's stock price has never been higher during Microsoft's 32-year history as a public company than it is now. And Microsoft's market value just passed rival Google's too.

Shares of Microsoft (MSFT) rose nearly 1% Wednesday and are now up more than 15% this year. The company is worth $760 billion, more than Google (GOOGL) owner Alphabet's market cap of $745 billion.

Microsoft now trails fellow Washington state native Amazon (AMZN) by about $30 billion for second place in the market value race.

Apple (AAPL), the world's most valuable company, is worth about $920 billion. Apple lost some ground Wednesday though. It was one of only two stocks in the Dow that were lower Wednesday afternoon. GE (GE) was the other.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/30/investing/microsoft-market-value-google-alphabet-amazon/index.html

[Daran]

Kinda hard to see why - could just be their overall market size is biggest ever but I wouldn't be be to optimistic about MS.

Most modern technology companies rarely use them for anything anymore, their main enterprise markets are only MS due to legacy.

OS - MacOS and Linux are far better (except for gaming)
MS has never gotten a foothold in the mobile arena.
AWS resigns supreme, Azure actually uses AWS, lolz
.NET C# dev is shrinking
Google Sheets etc are becoming more and more popular

[VexXx Dogg]

Microsoft has forged some strategic partnerships with Linux, rather than competing.
Correlation does not imply causation, but collaboration is the name of the game and I can see this being a contributor to growth.