IBM’s market capitalization was valued at over $127 billion as of April 2021. IBM ranked No. 38 on the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.

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The company announced it would spin off its managed infrastructure services businesses, effectively splitting the company into two separate tech stocks. IBM shareholders will hold a stake in IBM and receive shares of “NewCo,” the temporary name for the new company, in the split.

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Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft’s operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale.

HP split into two companies in late 2015, with its namesake company retaining the PC and printer units and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise taking over the enterprise hardware, software, and services businesses. Both Microsoft and the “new” HP thrived under their new business models.

Originally Answered: would Microsoft ever go bankrupt? Unlikely. This is not to say the company won’t fall on its face someday, but to go bankrupt would require a sequence of boneheaded moves that would waste not only the funds in the bank, but to offset the value of the assets (digital, physical, and intellectual).

Stock price has no relation with the revenue or popularity of a company. Its calculated as a ratio of market capitalization and no of shares outstanding in market. So if any company X offers large number of shares during IPO, its per share price will be low. Hope that’s the case with Microsoft.

The decision seems to be made after Microsoft decided to temporarily close stores in March due to the spread of the coronavirus. “The company will also reimagine spaces that serve all customers, including operating Microsoft Experience Centers in London, NYC, Sydney, and Redmond campus locations.”

Microsoft is giving up on physical retail. Today the company announced plans to permanently close all Microsoft Store locations in the United States and around the world, except for four locations that will be “reimagined” as experience centers that no longer sell products.

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• Andover.
• Basildon.
• Birkenhead.
• Bournemouth.
• Bridlington.
• Clacton.
• Covent Garden.
• Crewe [Relocation]

The Microsoft Store itself hasn’t been updated with new features or changes in over two years, and the last major update actually made the store experience even worse by making native product pages web pages, slowing down the Store experience significantly. Here’s some examples of why the Microsoft Store app is so bad.

Microsoft Store (retail)

Supporting customers with online appointments and walk-ins for in-warranty Surface and Xbox devices. For repairs of other devices, online support is available. Customers can drop off their in-warranty device for repairs and get in person advice.

Microsoft permanently closed its retail stores in the US and around the world last year, shortly after the pandemic began. The company has been moving store employees to areas that help sell to, train, and support Microsoft’s business customers.

While the vast majority of apps in Microsoft’s Windows Store are safe, some may contain adware, malware, and other unwanted software. The big selling point of Windows Store is that its apps are safe. In theory, no app in the store should contain unwanted software.