Entity

Microsoft

The world's largest software company; runs the Azure cloud and is OpenAI's principal backer.

As of 27 Oct 2026Last evidence 27 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Microsoft offers voluntary exit package to 60K employees across India, US, UK and Canada

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft Offers a Quarter of Its Global Workforce Voluntary Buyouts as AI Spending Accelerates

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

  • Xbox COO Helen Chiang exits after three months in role, 21 years at Microsoft

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • Microsoft exits UK AI data center project over electricity delays

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Microsoft, McDonald's, Alphabet, and More Say No to Crypto Platforms' Stock Tokenization Plans

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 6 events and claims involving Microsoft

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 195 mentions on 27 Oct 2026, against 150 on 6 Oct 2026 (+30%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 21 Oct 2026 (8 changes recorded since 15 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 2 claims first reported since 26 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?” moved from 8% to 58% Yes since 12 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

3,690 documents · 397 publishers · 3% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 27 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.027: about 97% of mentions carry no typed assertion

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Microsoft

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

AIGoogleAmazonOpenAINvidiaAnthropicMetaChina
  • AI · 2,838 shared documents
  • Google · 1,644 shared documents
  • Amazon · 1,148 shared documents
  • OpenAI · 1,144 shared documents
  • Nvidia · 1,125 shared documents
  • Anthropic · 962 shared documents
  • Meta · 876 shared documents
  • China · 569 shared documents
  • Buy · 563 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Copilot · 498 shared documents · no page of its own yet

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 195 mentions on 27 Oct 2026 with 150 on 6 Oct 2026 (+30%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +147% from 12 Sept 2026 to 27 Oct 2026, between 30 and 248 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Microsoft, day by day.

Market price, cited

58% Yes

priced 27 Oct 2026 · relation: subject of the question

the market: 8% → 58% Yes (+50pts, from 1 Oct 2026 to 27 Oct 2026)

on “Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Microsoft

“Will Microsoft be the third-largest company in the world by market cap on October 31?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Microsoft

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Microsoft offers voluntary exit package to 60K employees across India, US, UK and Canada

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Microsoft Offers a Quarter of Its Global Workforce Voluntary Buyouts as AI Spending Accelerates

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Xbox COO Helen Chiang exits after three months in role, 21 years at Microsoft

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Microsoft exits UK AI data center project over electricity delays

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Microsoft, McDonald's, Alphabet, and More Say No to Crypto Platforms' Stock Tokenization Plans

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Microsoft and McDonald’s Push Back Against OKX-ICE Tokenized Stocks

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Microsoft

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

Microsoft

Entity.

Evidence
3,690 documents · 397 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 12 Apr 2026, last seen 27 Oct 2026
Measured
3% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
27 Oct 2026
16 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (6)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Microsoft, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Microsoft

Markets whose question is about Microsoft or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Microsoft and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

1 market past its stated close date is not shown as open: “Will Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) hit (HIGH) $540 Week of October 19 2026?” (closed 25 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 21 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 21 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 20 Oct 2026

  • 20 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 19 Oct 2026

  • 19 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 18 Oct 2026

  • 19 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 18 Oct 2026

  • 18 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

  • 18 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 17 Oct 2026

  • 17 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to steady

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

8 changes recorded since 15 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 27 Oct 2026.