You can call this first one a superhero story. In 2014, Microsoft was on the verge of irrelevance. Bill Gates' company, which ushered the world into the digital age with DOS and Windows, had missed the mobile wave, lagged in cloud computing, and was a non-player in AI. Some analysts even suggested it be sold off in pieces, a sort of garage sale for legacy software.

Fast forward to July 30, 2025, and far from having a 'Kodak moment' of oblivion, Microsoft briefly becomes the world's first-ever $4 trillion company. Not Apple. Not Google. Not even the market magnet Nvidia. It was Microsoft, whose valuation was fueled by its massive and successful bets on artificial intelligence and cloud computing. So, what do you think happened in 2014 that led to this company having one of the most dramati

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