Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Microsoft earnings are insane. As expected. Wonder Woman might have made

HBO Max into a contender. YouTube is still the king of getting creators paid.

What if I told you Atari doesn't want to be left out of the game streaming wars?

And listen to the end of this episode for the big podcast announcement I've been promising.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Earning season, as I said, it's upon us once again.

And I think this is maybe one of those quarters where there's not going to be much to say other

than the big boys are killing it. For example, Microsoft yesterday reported net

income up 33% year over year which is look for a company as old as Microsoft and as big as

Microsoft is we're talking large numbers here the law of large numbers

reporting income not even, but income growth of 33 percent, that's

incredible.

It's because their cloud revenue was up 23 percent, azure revenue was up 50 percent%, even their stodgy old personal computing business saw Revenue

up 14%, read that as Windows and Office and such. But at the same time, Microsoft stock is up what, a

measly 1% this morning. This was already baked in, I guess. Folks have been expecting this.

I mean, it's not like some sort of

video game retailing stock or something right that's a game stop reference in

case you're wondering Google that story if you're not aware.

But also, there is a COVID angle to all of this,

quoting the New York Times.

While corporate tech spending took a hit early in the pandemic,

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