1. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
On June 9, 2026, KPMG and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) announced an expansion of their global relationship to help clients deploy AI at scale. Under the agreement, KPMG will use Microsoft Agent 365 to “enhance” the KPMG Trusted AI framework, while KPMG member firms will deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot across the global workforce. Deb Cupp, Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer for Microsoft Global Enterprise, said the collaboration is intended to help clients move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale impact.
On June 10, 2026, Xbox executives Asha Sharma and Matt Booty said in a message to Xbox employees globally that the company had started to “revive XBOX” over the first 100 days together. The executives said Xbox platform teams shipped more updates in the last 100 days than during the prior year combined, while Game Pass began growing again after more than eight months of decline. The message also pointed to several business pressures, including a roughly 3% accountability margin at fiscal year-end, more than $20 billion spent over five years on content, platform, and hardware subsidy excluding Activision Blizzard King, and annual revenue that declined by nearly half a billion over that period. The Xbox executives also cited a hardware component crisis, saying console storage component costs were more than 2x last fall’s, and were expected to rise to more than 5x the prices paid two years earlier by the 2027 holiday season. The message said Xbox needs a new business model and partnerships for hardware, while also reassessing content investment priorities and rebuilding parts of its platform infrastructure.
Earlier in June, Wells Fargo analyst Michael Turrin raised the firm’s price target on Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) to $650 from $625 and maintained an Overweight rating on the shares. Turrin said investor questions around Microsoft’s AI strategy have grown louder after the company’s print, but Wells Fargo sees Microsoft as better positioned at the software layer than the market is giving it credit for.
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) develops and supports software, services, devices, and solutions worldwide.
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