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ServiceNow’s latest beat-and-raise quarter has refocused the market debate: is the stock priced for perfection or is the company quietly building an AI-first moat that justifies its premium? Recent criticisms — high price-to-sales multiples, competitive pressure from hyperscalers and CRM titans, and a noisy regulatory backdrop — are real and deserve scrutiny. Yet the company’s June 2025 results, product launches, and expanding ecosystem show a different reality: ServiceNow is executing on an...

OpenAI's announcement that it will build an AI-powered jobs platform and a linked certification program marks a decisive expansion from conversational agents into workforce services — an initiative that could directly challenge Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, reshape hiring economics, and accelerate the shift to skills-first hiring driven by AI proficiency. Background / Overview OpenAI says it will launch the OpenAI Jobs Platform, a matching service that uses large language models to connect...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and prompting rapid routing work while carriers schedule repairs.Background / Overview The global internet depends on a dense web of submarine fiber‑optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. A narrow maritime corridor through the Red Sea and the approaches to the Suez Canal...

Microsoft appears to be winding down Outlook Lite for Android, with reports saying new installs will be blocked starting October 6, 2025 and existing users steered toward the full Outlook client — a change that reflects a broader push by Microsoft to consolidate mobile and desktop Outlook experiences into a smaller set of codebases and web-first surfaces. Background / Overview Outlook Lite was launched by Microsoft in August 2022 as a deliberately small-footprint Android client designed to...

Multiple undersea fibre-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut in early September, producing widespread internet slowdowns and raising fresh questions about the fragility of the global network that underpins cloud services, financial markets and everyday communication across Asia, the Middle East and parts of Europe. The outages forced major carriers and cloud operators, most visibly Microsoft Azure, to reroute traffic through longer, often congested alternative paths — a response that...

Microsoft confirmed that parts of its Azure cloud experienced higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and exposing a brittle chokepoint in the global internet backbone. Background The global internet — and by extension public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure — rides on a relatively small number of high‑capacity submarine fibre systems. A narrow maritime corridor through the Red Sea and the...

Microsoft confirmed on September 6 that multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, and warned Azure customers that traffic which “previously traversed through the Middle East” may experience increased latency as packets are rerouted across longer, often congested alternatives. Background The global internet — and by extension public cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure — runs on a highly concentrated lattice of submarine fibre systems. A narrow maritime corridor through...

Microsoft’s Azure engineers told customers to expect higher latency after multiple international subsea cables in the Red Sea were cut, then updated their status to show no active Azure platform issues — a rapid swing that highlights both the resilience of modern cloud routing and the fragility of the physical network beneath it. (reuters.com, newsweek.com) Background The incident began on September 6, 2025, when several major undersea fiber-optic cables that transit the Red Sea were...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced noticeable performance disruption after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer detours and generating higher-than-normal latency for customers whose data traverses the Middle East corridor — Microsoft’s engineers rerouted traffic and applied traffic‑engineering mitigations while carriers and cable operators prepared repairs. Background The global internet is physically anchored by submarine fiber-optic...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone entered a period of turbulence this weekend after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut, producing measurable latency for traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and prompting Azure engineers to reroute and rebalance traffic while maritime repairs are arranged. The two short reports the user provided — one portraying Azure as disrupted and another saying Azure was unaffected — reflect a tension between operational truth...

CEDIA 2025’s floor hum was equal parts audiophile lust and pragmatic urgency: manufacturers showed TVs and speakers that think with you, while a hard calendar date—Windows 10’s end of support—made clear that households must plan hardware and software moves now. Rich’s on‑air roundup from Denver touched on smart‑home AI, image‑editing breakthroughs, security hygiene, and the consumer headaches of subscription sharing; this article unpacks those takeaways, verifies the core claims, and gives...

The countdown is real: Microsoft will stop issuing regular security updates and technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and owners of older but still serviceable laptops face three clear choices — upgrade to Windows 11 if the hardware permits, pay for a short-term Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge, or repurpose the machine with a different, lightweight operating system — each path carrying trade‑offs in security, cost, and sustainability. Background / Overview Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s OS has been quietly slimming down: a clutch of once-promising Windows features have been deprecated or removed over the past few years, and a number of little-known tools that almost nobody used are now gone for good—some by stealth, others with a public notice. The tidy list that follows takes the MakeUseOf roundup as its starting point and then verifies and expands on each claim against Microsoft’s own documentation and independent reporting to show precisely what was removed...

Microsoft’s Surface account briefly posted a promotional image touting the Surface Pro as a “research buddy” powered by built‑in Copilot — then deleted the post after users noticed the device’s on‑screen interface looked unmistakably like iPadOS rather than Windows 11. This small, highly visible misstep — captured in screenshots before the post disappeared — sparked a wave of mockery and quick comparisons to previous brand social‑media gaffes, while also reopening a debate about the use of...

Microsoft Azure warned customers of higher‑than‑normal latency after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators rerouted traffic and prepared for complex maritime repairs. Background / Overview The global internet — and by extension modern cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure — depends on a small number of high‑capacity submarine fiber systems. A narrow maritime corridor through the Red Sea and the...

Microsoft is reportedly planning to block fresh installations of Outlook Lite starting in October 2025 as it prepares a broader retirement of the app, forcing users who rely on a lightweight, battery-friendly client to either remain on an aging build or move to the full Outlook for Mobile experience. Background / Overview Outlook Lite launched in 2022 as Microsoft’s deliberately minimal, low-footprint version of Outlook for Android devices. Built to serve users with older phones, limited...

The countdown to October 14, 2025 is real: when Microsoft stops shipping security updates and technical support for Windows 10, millions of functioning machines will face a binary choice—move to Windows 11, pay for temporary extended security, or run a different operating system entirely—and for budget-conscious buyers the 2025-era Acer Aspire Go 15 is being floated as a pragmatic, low-cost alternative for everyday productivity. Background / Overview Windows 10 reaches official end of...

Undersea fibre links in the Red Sea were cut in early September 2025, producing measurable internet slowdowns and elevated cloud latency across South Asia, the Gulf and parts of Africa as operators scrambled to reroute traffic while investigators and repair crews worked to identify the physical faults and plan maritime repairs. Background / Overview The global internet’s long-haul backbone depends on a relatively small number of high-capacity submarine cable systems. A narrow maritime...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud showed fresh fragility this weekend after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and causing higher-than-normal latency for customers whose traffic traverses the Middle East corridor. Background The global internet is physically anchored by submarine fiber-optic cables that carry the vast majority of intercontinental traffic. A narrow stretch of sea — the Red Sea, the Suez approaches and the Bab el‑Mandeb...