Microsoft has announced that Azure ACS and SharePoint Add-In services will stop working for new tenants on November 1, 2024, and will be shut down for existing tenants on April 2, 2026.
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Microsoft has announced that its Azure OpenAI Service has added support for OpenAI's new GPT-4 Turbo and GPT-3.5-Turbo generative AI models that were first revealed earlier this month.
As part of its Ignite 2023 developer conference, Microsoft has announced a new Azure AI Speech service called Personal Voice, which will let businesses and people make their own AI voices.
Microsoft made many major revelations today at its 2023 Ignite event regarding Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop. These include the new Windows App, GPU support, and more.
Microsoft has announced it plans to give startup companies free access to its Azure AI services, including GPU virtual machine clusters, so they can train and run large language models.
Microsoft and Oracle have announced another new multi-year agreement that will let Microsoft use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to power its Bing services. Financial details were not disclosed.
Microsoft has added seven more realistic-sounding AI text-to-speech voices in different languages that can be used by Azure AI customers along with several updates to previous voices.
Microsoft has just announced Radius, a new platform for developing and managing cloud-based apps. It is an open source platform that can be used with Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private clouds.
Microsoft Research is working on Project Silica, a new cloud storage technology that will allow tons of data to be stored on glass plates, and which will be available for thousands of years.
Microsoft recently started Windows 11 23H2 hardware certification to ensure compatibility. Now the company is doing the same for Microsoft 365 services with improvements to the Test Base.
Microsoft and Amazon are among the cloud providers that are the target of a newly announced investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority regulatory body, based on an Ofcom study.
Microsoft's GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps will allow software developers to work in the cloud with a number of extra security features that are available with a special license.
Due to a misconfigured cloud storage setting on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally exposed over 38TB of internal data for over two years. This includes backups of employee passwords and messages.
Newly revealed internal emails from Microsoft executives showed that the company was working in 2021 on a PC game streaming service similar to its current Xbox Cloud Gaming service.
The new joint Oracle Database Azure service will allow Oracle database services to be run directly on Microsoft's datacenters. Financial details on this new partnership were not revealed.
Microsoft's Azure Firewall service, which helps to protect workloads on the company's Azure cloud servers, has added some new features in both public preview and general availability.
Microsoft Azure managed to grow 26% during the second quarter year-over-year. At that growth rate, it did better than Amazon Web Services but was behind Google Cloud which grew by 31%.
Aptos Labs will integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service with its network. Microsoft's AI models will be trained on the Aptos blockchain, while Aptos will run validator nodes on Microsoft Azure.
The Microsoft Azure service, which offers businesses a way to add natural speech through text for apps and services, finally has a male voice, that can speak in 41 different languages.
The new Microsoft Azure ND H100 v5 Virtual Machine (VM) series will offer fast generative AI workloads for business, while the Azure OpenAI Service is now available in more parts of the world.
Llama 2 will be available for Microsoft's Azure customers with its safety tools. It will also be made available to run locally on Windows. It is free to use for research and commercial tasks.
Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Managed Lustre. It said this first-party managed service on Azure is available through two instances that offer different performance options.
Microsoft saw the most public cloud services revenue in 2022, according to the analyst IDC. It said that Microsoft held 16.8% of the market share compared to AWS' 13.5% market share.
Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips.
Starting June 16, Mercedes-Benz will launch a three-month beta program that will support using ChatGPT with its in-house voice assistant, supported by Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service.
From leveraging AI in its productivity suite to exploring the possibilities of techno-humanism, Microsoft continues venturing into the AI era as it embraces its power in its products and services.
Microsoft's Azure Deployment Environments allows developers to get faster and easier to their infrastructure and environments by using project-based templates. It's available for free right now.
This public preview allows Microsoft's Azure DevOps users to access all the GitHub Advanced Security features, including secret scanning, dependency scanning, and CodeQL code scanning capabilities.
Microsoft has announced several developer tools and solutions today at its Build 2023 event. Leaked previously, the company has unveiled its new Dev Box today as it gets a new 2TB SSD option.
At the Microsoft Build 2023 event today, Microsoft has unveiled its new unified analytics platform dubbed "Microsoft Fabric". One of the features of Fabric is the new, unified "OneLake" storage.
The European Union has asked customers and firms to submit documents and complaints over Microsoft's use of confidential business information to gain leverage over other cloud-service providers.
The new chips were designed to be used by the US Department of Defense and mark the first time that these chips were designed in a cloud environment and then were sent from the cloud to foundries.
Microsoft is adding support for XFS as a root file system on Linux. The change was announced with the latest update to CBL-Mariner which is Microsoft's Linux-based OS for Azure 1P.
Microsoft has announced three new Azure CLX programme tracks that are focused on Data and AI skills. You'll earn certificates and a 50 per cent discount off the Microsoft Azure Certification Exam.
Cost-optimizing your Azure environment can help identify operational efficiencies and removing superfluous expenses. The more you can optimize your cloud costs, the more budget you free up.
As announced back in January, Microsoft is increasing the cost of its Microsoft Cloud services by up to 15% in certain regions of Europe. This move will impact organizations, not consumers.
U.S. federal cybersecurity agency CISA has developed a Python-based utility to detect signs of hacking in Microsoft cloud environments including Microsoft 365, Azure, and Azure Active Directory (AAD).
The addition of GPT-4 in Azure OpenAI Service will allow businesses and enterprise customers to create their own large language AI applications with the help of Microsoft Azure cloud services.
The new partnership between Microsoft and NVIDIA was one of a ton of announcements that NVIDIA made today during a keynote address at the company's GTC developer and AI conference.
Microsoft reveals a new AI virtual machine that can be used by companies to power AI features, and also explains more about it worked with OpenAI in the first place to create the ChatGPT computers.