As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.22 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.

Its approximately $400-per-share price is close to where Apple split its stock in 2020.

Microsoft's stock saw its biggest daily decline since 2020 on Thursday after investors were dismayed by its cloud computing business not growing enough.

After Microsoft's pollution climbed 23% following a green pledge, experts are warning that the company's trajectory "remains troubling." Microsoft pledged in 2020 to go carbon negative by 2030. The ...