Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a public company headquartered in Redmond, WA, founded in 1975 and listed on NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT.
- Founded
- 1975
- HQ
- Redmond, WA
- Status
- public (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Verified profile
1
Sources on record
1
Tracked changes
Updated 6 days ago
Last verified change
Key facts
Headquarters
Redmond, WA
Founded
1975
Company type
Public company
Ownership
Listed on NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT
Deploy Watch
Track Microsoft on Deploy.
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Data & sources
- News coverage1
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Relationships
Safety record
No incidents on record for Microsoft.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Recent coverage
Microsoft in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships (3)
- Wayve Series C (2024) with Wayve, NVIDIA, Eclipse Ventures, SoftBank Groupinvestment
- Figure AI Series B (2024) with Figure AI, NVIDIA, Intel Corporation, ARK Invest, Bezos Expeditions, OpenAI Startup Fund, Parkway Venture Capitalinvestment
- Microsoft x Sanctuary AI with Sanctuary AItechnology
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is Microsoft?
- Microsoft is a public company headquartered in Redmond, WA, founded in 1975 and listed on NASDAQ under the ticker MSFT.
- Where is Microsoft based?
- Microsoft is based in Redmond, WA.
- When was Microsoft founded?
- Microsoft was founded in 1975.
- What does Microsoft make?
- Microsoft has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Microsoft builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.
- Is Microsoft safe?
- Microsoft has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-29
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-29
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Microsoft.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Microsoft from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Big Tech Sends Workers Into the Field to Help Customers Use AI
Microsoft, Amazon follow AI companies by creating units of “forward-deployed” engineers
Microsoft's 6,000-Person AI Push
Microsoft is building a 6,000-person AI deployment team to help businesses implement artificial intelligence. Bloomberg' Tech co-host Ed Ludlow explains why the move mirrors the…
Tesla Deliveries Jump 25% | Bloomberg Tech 7/02/2026
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down reports that OpenAI is holding early-stage discussions about giving the US government a 5% equity stake. Plus, Tesla's delivery numbers rose 25%…
Microsoft Shifts Strategy on Enterprise AI
Microsoft is mobilizing 6,000 employees in a new unit aimed at helping enterprise clients better utilize AI. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft's commercial business, discusses what…
Microsoft said exploitation was 'less likely' ... but CISA just added SharePoint RCE to KEV list
Attackers need little more than a valid SharePoint account to execute code on vulnerable on-prem servers
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Microsoft Mobilizes 6,000 Workers to Help Customers Adopt AI
Microsoft Corp. is setting up a new organization with 6,000 employees to help businesses with the technical and strategic work of deploying artificial intelligence.
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.
Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft’s looming layoffs and studio closures
Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to…
Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with…
Sony’s PlayStation Puts a Nail in Physical Media’s Coffin
Is PlayStation about to make the same mistake Microsoft made with Xbox One?
Meta Is Planning Cloud Business to Take on Amazon, Google
Meta Platforms is developing plans to build a cloud infrastructure business that would sell access to AI computing power and models. It would take on industry leaders like Amazon…
Machine-readable surfaces
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- RSS feed: /companies/microsoft/feed.xml
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- REST API: /v1/companies/b8670b58-67f2-4b87-9b46-9e16588dc1e6
- Revision history: /companies/microsoft/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Video
Microsoft shocked the world in 2025 with its claims about the Majorana 1 quantum chip. But a peer-reviewed paper in Nature now says Microsoft’s proof just doesn
DEPLOY Intelligence Score
23.0/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
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DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
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