By Jordan Novet
Publication Date: 2026-02-04 00:00:00
Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, appears during an interview in San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2017.
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Microsoft on Tuesday told employees it was promoting four sales executives, months after the software company made sales leader Judson Althoff CEO of its commercial business.
Investors have been wondering how much Microsoft and other longstanding software companies can grow as corporate workers build new applications using generative artificial intelligence models. Microsoft shares have slipped 15% so far this year, trailing all other Magnificent Seven technology stocks.
Last week Microsoft issued Azure cloud growth that came in below some projections. Executives said they want to allocate more computing resources to research and development teams and to its AI products such as the Microsoft 365 Copilot productivity software add-on and the GitHub Copilot coding assistant, while still meeting Azure client demand.
“Judson…
