Microsoft’s share price took a battering over the past couple of weeks, what’s going on?

Yesterday, someone linked me an data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI-generated article alleging that Xbox’s near-total absence from data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/everything-announced-at-the-game-awards-2025-xbox-gaming-handhelds-pc-and-more” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/everything-announced-at-the-game-awards-2025-xbox-gaming-handhelds-pc-and-more”>The Game Awards was to blame for a multi-billion decreases in its stock price. It was a cute idea, but simply not based in reality.

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data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=microsoft+share+price&wt=FinanceGenericL3TabModule&ocid=ansMSNMoney11&qid=a1xzim&t=Stock.a1xzim.MSFT.r6dwop&src=b_finmagc&id=a1xzim&l3=L3_Chart&chart=quote&timeFrame=1M&chartType=candlestick&projection=false” data-url=”https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=microsoft+share+price&wt=FinanceGenericL3TabModule&ocid=ansMSNMoney11&qid=a1xzim&t=Stock.a1xzim.MSFT.r6dwop&src=b_finmagc&id=a1xzim&l3=L3_Chart&chart=quote&timeFrame=1M&chartType=candlestick&projection=false” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Microsoft’s share price has slid around 7% in the past month, although it’s still up 5% for the year in total, and up over 120% across the past five years. One of the big success stories for…

Microsoft’s share price took a battering over the past couple of weeks, what’s going on?

Yesterday, someone linked me an data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/artificial-intelligence” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence”>AI-generated article alleging that Xbox’s near-total absence from data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/everything-announced-at-the-game-awards-2025-xbox-gaming-handhelds-pc-and-more” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/everything-announced-at-the-game-awards-2025-xbox-gaming-handhelds-pc-and-more”>The Game Awards was to blame for a multi-billion decreases in its stock price. It was a cute idea, but simply not based in reality.

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data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=microsoft+share+price&wt=FinanceGenericL3TabModule&ocid=ansMSNMoney11&qid=a1xzim&t=Stock.a1xzim.MSFT.r6dwop&src=b_finmagc&id=a1xzim&l3=L3_Chart&chart=quote&timeFrame=1M&chartType=candlestick&projection=false” data-url=”https://www.bing.com/entitydetails?q=microsoft+share+price&wt=FinanceGenericL3TabModule&ocid=ansMSNMoney11&qid=a1xzim&t=Stock.a1xzim.MSFT.r6dwop&src=b_finmagc&id=a1xzim&l3=L3_Chart&chart=quote&timeFrame=1M&chartType=candlestick&projection=false” target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>Microsoft’s share price has slid around 7% in the past month, although it’s still up 5% for the year in total, and up over 120% across the past five years. One of the big success stories for…