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Microsoft’s fiscal third-quarter 2026 results, reported on April 29 in Redmond for the period ended March 31, showed revenue rising 18% to $82.9 billion, EPS rising 23% to $4.27, and Azure and other cloud services growing 40% year over year. The stock’s nearly 4% slide afterward was not a...

Microsoft said on May 5, 2026, that 11 papers by its researchers and collaborators were accepted at NSDI ’26, the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation taking place May 4–6 in Renton, Washington. The announcement is not merely academic bragging rights. It is a map of...

Microsoft shares were trading near $413 on Friday, May 1, 2026, after the company reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $82.9 billion, 18 percent year-over-year growth, Azure growth of 40 percent, and a sharply larger AI infrastructure spending plan. The sell-off narrative is simple...

Microsoft reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $82.9 billion for the period ended March 31, 2026, with Microsoft Cloud revenue rising to $54.5 billion and Azure and other cloud services growing 40 percent, even as Windows OEM, Devices, and Xbox content revenue declined. The headline...

Microsoft reported on April 29, 2026 that Azure and other cloud services revenue rose 40% year over year in its fiscal third quarter, while its AI business surpassed a $37 billion annual revenue run rate. That is the kind of number that changes the argument around AI spending. The story is no...

Microsoft and OpenAI have revised their partnership in April 2026, ending Microsoft’s exclusive rights to OpenAI model IP, allowing OpenAI to serve products across multiple clouds, and replacing the old AGI-linked contract structure with a non-exclusive license running through 2032. The popular...

Microsoft is back in the market’s good graces, and the reason is not hard to see: investors are increasingly treating Azure capacity and Copilot adoption as the two levers that will determine whether the next leg of MSFT’s AI story becomes a real earnings surprise or just another expensive...

PROMISE Technology is using NAB 2026 to make a clear statement: the creator-storage market is no longer just about raw throughput, but about workflow-specific performance tuned for both Mac and Windows, plus the expanding demands of AI. The company’s Pegasus5 family is being positioned as a...

Microsoft’s move into Narvik is the latest sign that AI infrastructure is becoming a strategic asset on par with chips, cloud contracts, and model access. The company has reportedly taken over a major Norwegian data center project that was initially positioned for OpenAI, turning a high-profile...

Microsoft is tightening its grip on the physical layer of AI at exactly the moment OpenAI is trying to loosen its dependence on any single infrastructure partner. The reported Norwegian deal in Narvik, built around a 230MW campus and more than 30,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs, is not just another data...

Microsoft’s move to rent 30,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips at a Norwegian data center originally courted by OpenAI is more than a capacity deal. It is a signal that the AI infrastructure race is getting less cooperative, more zero-sum, and increasingly defined by whoever can secure power, land...

Anthropic’s decision to recruit former Microsoft Azure AI executive Eric Boyd is more than a headline-grabbing talent move. It is a signal that the company’s next phase will be won or lost on infrastructure: compute capacity, model serving reliability, and the operational discipline required to...

The 2026 Favikon list of cloud computing voices is more than a popularity chart; it is a snapshot of where the industry’s center of gravity now sits. At the top, the ranking blends hyperscaler executives, infrastructure thinkers, and educator-creators, reflecting how cloud influence has expanded...

Anthropic’s decision to bring on longtime Microsoft infrastructure executive Eric Boyd is more than a talent grab. It is a signal that the company’s next phase will be defined as much by compute, power, and systems design as by model quality. With demand for Claude rising quickly, Anthropic is...

Anthropic’s decision to hire away Microsoft AI veteran Eric Boyd is more than another Silicon Valley talent raid; it is a signal that the most important competition in AI is now moving deeper into infrastructure, model distribution, and enterprise platform control. Boyd, who spent 16 years at...

The case against Azure is no longer just an outsider’s hot take or a contrarian analyst’s gripe. It is increasingly becoming a story Microsoft itself cannot avoid: years of capacity pressure, an aggressive AI-first pivot, and a cloud platform that still carries the scars of its early rush to...

Claude maker Anthropic has added another heavyweight operator to its infrastructure push, hiring longtime Microsoft Azure AI leader Eric Boyd to run its infrastructure team at a moment when scale, reliability, and enterprise readiness are becoming the real battlegrounds in frontier AI. Boyd, who...

Claude maker Anthropic is deepening its infrastructure bench with a high-profile hire from Microsoft, bringing in former Azure AI platform president Eric Boyd as it races to support surging enterprise demand and a rapidly expanding partner ecosystem. The move is more than a talent grab: it...

Microsoft’s new $10 billion commitment to Japan is more than a headline-grabbing capex pledge. It is a strategic bet that the next phase of AI growth will be defined not just by model quality, but by where data is processed, who controls the infrastructure, and whether nations can trust the...

Microsoft’s latest quarter did not look like a business losing momentum. Revenue, Azure growth, and a towering backlog all argue the opposite. Yet the stock has still been hit hard, because investors are no longer asking whether Microsoft can grow — they are asking how long it will take for AI...