Microsoft Briefly Overtakes Apple as Most Valuable US Company (khaleejtimes.com)

Microsoft briefly overtook Apple as the world's most valuable listed company, fulfilling what it almost did eight years ago and adding a feather on the cap on CEO Satya Nadella. From a report: Redmond, Washington-headquartered Microsoft had a market cap of $753.34 billion, beating out the iPhone maker's $746.82 billion in intra-day trade on Friday at the Nasdaq in New York. Apple, however, regained control at the close. According to the Nasdaq website, Apple's market cap rose back up to $817.58 billion. Right behind it is Microsoft, which also increased to $791.19 billion. Tech companies have undergone some rough times recently. In particular, the so-called FAANG group -- Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google (Alphabet) -- had, as at November 20, combined market cap losses of over $1.02 trillion from their recent highs.

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Re:I've never heard anyone ever claim Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Not sure what point you're trying to make.

- Windows has 87% of the desktop/laptop market share;
- while AWS is still massively in the lead in the cloud infrastructure market, it is losing market share to Azure;
- Office 365 overtook Google Apps in the cloud applications market three years ago;
- and C# and ASP .NET are massively used in the enterprise sector.

Microsoft is a pretty solid business.