There are both good feelings and question marks to take from it.

Microsoft's latest annual report excludes the names of rivals, putting a stop to a practice that goes back at least to 1994. Amazon and Tesla both gave up the practice in the past five years.

Earlier this week, I reported that Microsoft had filed a $4.7 billion loss by OpenAI in its annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30 under "other expenses". Speculations suggested that the ...