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The two new virtual machines are aimed towards Azure HPC customers, promising cost efficiency as well as higher performance. Dubbed HX and HBv4, the new series' leverage AMD's latest processors.

The tech giant's latest enhancements for Azure VMWare Solution includes new capabilities to efficiently handle storage intensive workloads, secure mission-critical workloads, and plenty more.

Following a smaller round of layoffs in August, Microsoft has laid off almost 1,000 employees today. This includes veteran employees across multiple divisions including Xbox, Azure, and more.

This was a very busy week in the world of Microsoft due to not one, but two events taking place. We have lots to unpack including announcements about Ignite, Surface and some Patch Tuesday goodness.

If you're a cybersecurity geek or an IT admin managing the security and integrity of your organization's infrastructure, you might want to check out Microsoft's Ignite 2022 announcements.

At its ongoing Ignite 2022 conference, Microsoft announced a bunch of new capabilities for its Azure cloud service and has also launched an employability program with LinkedIn integration.

Microsoft's new OSDU platform, dubbed Energy Data Services, is leveraging the Redmond giant and RoQC's collaboration to provide cloud-based management options to make Azure migration easier for users.

Ofcom has launched a study into large cloud service providers, communications apps such as WhatsApp, and connected devices like smart TVs and smart speakers. It wants to identify competition concerns.

This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly is jam-packed with news related to Windows 11's features and some criticism about them, enhancements to Microsoft Edge, as well as some app updates.

Azure Virtual Machines, powered by Ampere Altra ARM processors, will hit General Availability on September 1. These CPUs support Windows 11 Pro and Enterprise, as well as several Linux distros.

Announced back in May, Microsoft Dev Box has now hit public preview. The managed service allows organizations to spin up developer-ready workstations hosted in the cloud, according to their needs.

Microsoft has released the Visual Studio 2022 17.3 update. It brings several new features, including support for .NET MAUI, a Teams Toolkit, C++ improvements, and improved Live Unit Testing.

Unity has selected Microsoft Azure as its cloud partner. The alliance will see developers leveraging Azure-powered technologies in the Unity engine to reach wider audiences on Xbox and PC.

Microsoft has detailed its security processes and incident response mechanisms when it comes to hardening its cloud defenses. It has 8,500 security experts that work around the clock for this purpose.

Canonical has released Ubuntu 20.04 as a Confidential Virtual Machine on Microsoft's Azure. It's the first Linux distro to be released as a CVM, but hopefully, this situation will change.

Microsoft has published a strong quarter for its latest quarter (FY22 Q4) yet again. However, it has blamed global and macroeconomic factors for certain unfavorable financial results.

Microsoft is halting sales of its emotion-reading technologies and will also restrict access to its facial recognition tools. The company may be bolstering its stand against EU and U.S. privacy laws.

Microsoft says that its Azure Translator service can scan PDF files and translate them without them being preprocessed by OCR software. The new feature won't cost customers any more money.

At its developer-focused Build 2022 conference today, Microsoft has announced a range of updates for its Azure services. The most interesting announcement deals with the Intelligent Data Platform.

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Do you know that Microsoft Start has 500 million monthly active users or that Power BI has over 200,000 customers? If not, check out our list of some interesting usage stats about Microsoft products.

Microsoft has reported an exceptionally strong quarter with a revenue of $49.4 billion and a net income of $16.7 billion. This was due to growth across practically all of its business segments.

Azure Virtual Machines will be running on ARM-based CPUs from Ampere Computing. Multiple server types such as web, gaming, application, and databases may have almost 50% price-performance benefits.

With today's highlighted Pay What You Want deal you can learn everything from game development to making responsive apps, this 20-course collection has everything you need to start coding.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of "new" Azure Front Door, which is an evolution of its previous CDN of the same name, meant to cater to current hybrid working models.

Azure Defender for IoT had five security vulnerabilities that SentinelOne‘s SentinelLabs had discovered and proactively reported to Microsoft. Some of the flaws are rated "Critical" for severity.

Microsoft had a ton of stuff to announce at the Game Developers Conference 2022 including worldwide availability of the ID@Azure program, updates to PlayFab services, and improvements in the cloud.

Microsoft is collaborating with Nvidia to build confidential GPUs on the Azure cloud where data can be securely offloaded and processed in a trusted execution environment (TEE), ensuring privacy.

Microsoft's DevOps accounts have allegedly been breached by the same hacker group responsible for hacking Samsung, and threatening to dump Vodafone proprietary data earlier this year.

Microsoft is realigning its partners' focus towards Azure cloud infrastructure. The company will retain all the old benefits such as Internal Usage Rights (IUR), and add a few more.

Microsoft has announced that its Startups Founders Hub is now available for all budding entrepreneurs, with access to up to $150,000 in Azure credits, and free provisioning of Microsoft 365 and Teams.

Microsoft has published details about a security vulnerability dubbed "AutoWarp" in Azure Automation service. It could enable attackers to get access to resources of other Azure customers.

Microsoft is suspending all "new" sales of its products in Russia. This includes Xbox, Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure. The implication is that existing customers will remain supported.

The partnership sees the country's fifth-largest bank select Microsoft as its primary cloud-service provider, with the hope of leveraging the power of the cloud to improve its offered experiences.

The enterprise tier of Microsoft's Azure Spring Cloud is finally available in preview for all customers. The enterprise tier adds on to the basic and standard version for the cloud platform.

With significant changes, Microsoft's Custom Translator portal now offers UI/UX guided experience, embedded deep links for more details, tooltips for quick information, and actionable error messages.