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Iran's IRGC named 18 U.S. tech companies as "legitimate retaliation targets" — including $NVDA, $AAPL, $MSFT, $GOOGL. Nasdaq futures –1.5%. $NVDA, $GOOGL, $MU, $TSLA, $INTC each –2–3% premarket. VIX back to 26.52 (+8%). Brent back to $106+. Wednesday's "best day since May" is fully reversed.

🔗 https://premarketdaily.com/nasdaq-futures-sink-1-5-as-irans-revolutionary-guard-names-nvidia-apple-microsoft-and-alphabet-as-legitimate-retaliation-targets-techs-worst-premarket-in-weeks/

#Nasdaq #NVDA #AAPL #MSFT #GOOGL #IRGC #IranWar #TechStocks #PreMarket

Nasdaq futures sink 1.5% as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard names Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Alphabet as “legitimate retaliation targets” — tech’s worst premarket in weeks

NEW YORK, April 2, 2026 — Technology stocks are Thursday's premarket underperformers by a wide margin, with Nasdaq 100 futures sinking 1.5% to 23,831.50 as two overlapping pressures simultaneously strike the sector. The first is the direct reversal of Wednesday's Iran deal optimism: Trump's April 1 national address on "Operation Epic Fury" projected 2–3 more

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9x0rg 3d ago

> Linux didn't win the way anyone expected. There was no dramatic moment where Ubuntu overtook Windows on the desktop. No press conference. No champagne. Linux won the way open source always wins — gradually, relentlessly, by being better at the things that matter most to the people building the future.

**Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed**

https://www.junauza.com/2026/03/linux-won-and-nobody-noticed.html

#Linux #OS #MSFT #OpenSource

Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed

The tech industry has failed to properly acknowledge this for years: Linux won. Not "Linux is doing fine." Not "Linux is making progress." N...

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Peter N. M. Hansteen 6d ago

One of the truly funny moments in my tech writing: I forget what the project was, but during final edits of an actually not very large manual, Microsoft Word bleated this https://nxdomain.no/~peter/dokumentet_er_for_stort.jpg at me.

This translates to "The document is too large to save. Delete some of the text before saving."
#badsoftware #documenttoolarge #microsoftword #MSFT #errormessage

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George Pearkes Mar 26

Select large cap stocks, lowest since... #$META: 4/30/25 #$MSFT: 4/22/25 #$GOOGL: 11/19/25 #$MU: 1/16/26 52w lows: #$CTAS (earnings), #$DASH (consumer spending concerns), #$NKE (general dumpster fire)

Tobias Schmidl Mar 25

löl, nein. Kursziel von knapp 700 USD für #MSFT #microsoft . Keine Chance. Die stehen bei knapp 380 USD.

Felix Wagner Mar 25

🚨 Tech als „sicherer Hafen“ wackelt

Google (GOOGL) -3 % + starke Put-Käufe → Smart Money short 📉
Microsoft (MSFT) zeigt ebenfalls Schwäche

🤖 KI-Optimismus trägt nicht mehr

👉 Wenn Marktführer fallen, folgt oft der breite Abverkauf

#Google #GOOGL #Microsoft #MSFT #BigTech #Optionshandel #KI

lmorchard's links Mar 24

Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox - Los Angeles Times

"Gates responded, “Steve, I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”"

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-03-24/inside-the-1979-silicon-valley-demo-that-made-apple-what-it-is-today?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fapple

#MSFT #apple #gui #history #parc #xerox

Hiltzik: When Steve Jobs got a show-and-tell at Xerox

In 1979, Steve Jobs led a delegation from Apple into Xerox's secretive Silicon Valley computer lab. The world would never be the same.

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KAPUALabs Mar 23

$MSFT's biggest risk isn't competition—it's regulation. From EU AI Act conformity assessments to DMA unbundling of Teams, export controls on GPUs, and a growing credibility gap between security approvals and actual assessments, the compliance landscape is reshaping Azure's economics.

Can Microsoft turn governance into a competitive moat? Full analysis: https://post.kapualabs.com/2p9ead92

#Microsoft #MSFT #TechPolicy #AIGovernance

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Gavin Mar 17

Microslop recovered a bit, but still below $400. Still a load of tripe.

On the other hand, Apple, which still has products people buy voluntarily and hasn’t spaffed its load on slop, has only dropped from $268 to $254 in the same period. #msft #grandtheftautocomplete