Microsoft (MSFT) Positions for Long-Term AI and Enterprise Growth

Microsoft (MSFT) Positions for Long-Term AI and Enterprise Growth

By Abdul Rahman
Publication Date: 2026-02-23 19:49:00

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is one of Goldman Sachs’s top growth stock picks. On February 18, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) and CrowdStrike announced that the CrowdStrike Falcon cybersecurity platform is now available for purchase on Microsoft Marketplace. Customers can now apply existing Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (ACC) toward those purchases.

Microsoft (MSFT) Positions for Long-Term AI and Enterprise Growth

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Microsoft said the marketplace availability is designed to streamline procurement and billing for organizations buying Falcon. The company framed the move as helping customers deploy Falcon’s unified, AI-native protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, AI, and data.

Commenting on the development, Microsoft’s commercial business CEO Judson Althoff said, “Security is the foundation for AI Transformation,” and added that enabling ACC to be used toward Falcon on Microsoft Marketplace gives customers…