The head of Microsoft Israel is out after allegations of unethical use of Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
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With $10.2 billion returned to shareholders, Microsoft continues to demonstrate financial dominance despite minor headwinds in the hardware and gaming sectors.
Microsoft hit with $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over alleged Windows Server cloud overpricing, as 60,000 firms claim unfair costs favor Azure.
Microsoft is reportedly considering a lawsuit against Amazon and OpenAI, arguing that their recent $50 billion cloud deal violates its exclusive Azure agreements.
Microsoft Azure has rolled out instant access snapshots for Pv2 and Ultra Disk, here are the advantages this update brings.
The Indian government just announced a new policy that incentivizes Big Tech to build their next generation of AI infrastructure on the subcontinent.
Perplexity AI has signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft to access a wider range of frontier models from OpenAI and xAI via Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft has released a new Agent Skill for GitHub Copilot that helps you create, configure, and deploy Azure Static Web Apps using the SWA CLI.
Prepare for the backend shutdown of legacy Log Analytics agents. Use the AMA migration helper and DCRs now to prevent permanent data loss.
Teams using Azure Private Link and Geo-backups see major improvements in the latest January stability update for MySQL Flexible Servers.
Phase 1 of the sunsetting process has begun for key management packs, with all official support scheduled to conclude in January 2027.
In the past, Microsoft has hidden fun Easter eggs in products like Windows and Office. However, the company does not engage in this activity anymore due to numerous reasons.
Following 15,000 cuts in 2025, rumours suggest Microsoft may slash up to 10% of its global workforce to fund a deeper pivot into AI infrastructure.
NVIDIA announced its next-gen Rubin platform at CES 2026, featuring the Vera CPU and Rubin GPU, promising 10x lower inference costs and 4x more efficient training.
Microsoft has unveiled its next-generation, in-house-developed ARM processor, the Cobalt 200, for Azure VMs, claiming up to 50% higher performance than its predecessor.
Microsoft has announced a major, expanded partnership with AI startup Anthropic, a rival to OpenAI, which includes an investment of up to $5 billion.
Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is facing a major global outage, affecting dozens of services.
Customers can now share Capacity Reservation Groups across multiple subscriptions, Microsoft has announced for its Azure cloud computing customers.
Microsoft has unveiled a new Heat Exchanger Unit (HXU) to help keep up with the demand for AI workloads.
After being moved under Microsoft's CoreAI organization, GitHub is losing more of its independence, and it confirms plans to migrate its servers from its own data centers to Azure.
Microsoft has combined several storefronts into a single platform to sell AI and cloud solutions to enterprise partners.
An internal review prompts a significant Microsoft update, signalling changes in how the company manages sensitive global partnerships.
Reaffirming its research that multifactor authentication prevents over 90% of account compromises, Microsoft is moving forward with Phase 2 of its mandatory Azure MFA rollout.
Microsoft has released Trusted Launch in-place upgrade support for Azure VMs to boost security for customers.
Microsoft has now joined Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic by announcing its own temporary discount program, which is expected to save the government billions of dollars.
A new SEC filing indicates that 39% of Nvidia's $46.7 billion revenue in the latest quarter comes from just two unidentified customers.
Microsoft has released GitHub Copilot for Azure as an extension for Visual Studio 2022. It integrates a set of Azure dev tools within GitHub Copilot Agent Mode.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recommended a formal investigation into Microsoft and AWS for potential anti-competitive practices.
Charm has released its Crush coding agent with support for multiple LLMs inside a glamorous interface powered by a command line tool of your choice.
In the 15 years since its launch, Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's standalone revenue. Today, Microsoft has disclosed Azure's standalone revenue for the first time.
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Microsoft drew a profit of $27.2 billion in the last quarter of FY25, driven by demand for the cloud and AI. Overall, it recorded profits of over a hundred billion dollars in the entire fiscal year.
Microsoft has made SSDs available for its Azure Ephemeral OS Disks giving customers faster VM boots and higher reliability.
Microsoft has moved its Windows key management licensing service from on-premises to Azure. This has helped it to reduce costs and boost security.
Microsoft has released a new update for SQL Server enabled by Azure Arc which aims to make it easier to migrate workloads to Azure.
Microsoft has made PostgreSQL 17 generally available on Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server. It has also enabled in-place upgrades to improve the experience.
Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry will soon include OpenAI's text-to-video model, Sora, addressing a current gap compared to AWS and Google Cloud.
Amazon's AWS has reported higher revenue and operating income for Q1 2025 than Microsoft's entire Intelligent Cloud segment.
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI service expands with GPT-4o-Mini-Realtime and Audio Preview models, enabling developers to build advanced speech AI applications.
OpenAI has released o3-mini, a new affordable reasoning model. Microsoft has now integrated o3-mini into Azure OpenAI Service and GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft has made the DeepSeek-R1 model available in Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, providing enterprises with access to a powerful and cost-efficient AI model.
Microsoft is making Windows 11's context menus faster, simpler, and configurable
Browser vendors pen open letter to Microsoft saying "enough is enough"
Still using Classic Outlook? Microsoft highlights 15 reasons to switch to New Outlook
