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Microsoft’s new Maia 200 accelerator signals a clear strategic pivot: build the economics of inference, not just raw training horsepower. The chip, unveiled by Microsoft on January 26, 2026, is a purpose‑built inference SoC fabricated on TSMC’s 3 nm node that stacks bandwidth and low‑precision...

Microsoft has quietly begun deploying its second‑generation in‑house AI accelerator, the Maia 200, a TSMC‑built chip Microsoft says is designed to cut the company’s reliance on external GPU vendors and deliver a step change in inference cost, power efficiency, and scale for Azure‑hosted AI...

Microsoft’s Maia 200 is not a modest chip announcement — it’s a systems-level gambit that stitches custom silicon, huge on‑package memory, an Ethernet‑based scale‑up fabric and a developer SDK into a single inference‑first platform Microsoft says will materially lower per‑token costs for Azure...

Microsoft is rolling Copilot Vision into Windows — a permissioned, session‑based capability that lets the Copilot app “see” one or two app windows or a shared desktop region and provide contextual, step‑by‑step help, highlights that point to UI elements, and multimodal responses (voice or typed)...

Microsoft’s advisory for CVE-2026-24304 identifies an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure Resource Manager that carries outsized operational risk because of the component’s role in the Azure management plane, but public technical detail is intentionally limited and the vendor’s...

Microsoft’s headline multiples from an automated Benzinga snapshot—mid‑30s P/E, low‑double P/B and a double‑digit P/S—create an apparent paradox: the stock looks cheap by earnings and book value but expensive by revenue, while its absolute cash generation dwarfs peers and points to strategic...

Visionet’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (AEMSP) designation crystallizes a strategic milestone for the firm—and for enterprise buyers seeking a proven operator for regulated, high‑availability, and AI‑ready Azure environments. The...

Visionet’s confirmation as a Microsoft Azure Expert Managed Services Provider (AEMSP) is the kind of industry credential that carries real operational weight for enterprise buyers — and it arrived with clear strategic timing as organizations move from experimentation to production with cloud and...

Cosmos has launched a dedicated APAC distributor and services arm, Cosmos APAC, establishing a regional hub meant to accelerate adoption of its cloud-native reporting and analytics platform for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central across Asia–Pacific. Background Cosmos is positioned as a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Azure update is a clear, targeted push to make the cloud platform cheaper and more practical for developers and QA teams—by changing how compute is billed, relaxing license restrictions for MSDN subscribers, and adding a set of developer-centric services that shorten...

Microsoft’s announced partnership with R3 — first publicized in April 2016 — promised to take blockchain experimentation out of pilot labs and into the systems that underpin global finance, with a headline claim that deploying R3’s Corda on Azure could both reduce fraud and cut billions in...

Microsoft just flipped the script again: AI everywhere, Xbox doubling down on subscriptions, Windows folding Copilot into the OS, and MSFT trading at headline-making levels — but beneath the hype there’s a straightforward strategic thesis and a set of concrete execution risks that every Windows...

Microsoft’s place at the center of a quietly intensifying enterprise software rebound—and a separate, high-visibility outage that knocked X (formerly Twitter) offline for tens of thousands of users—are two stories this week that reveal how corporate budgets, platform reliability, and...

Microsoft’s latest market bump isn’t trivia — it’s a narrative built on a Morgan Stanley CIO survey that places the company as the primary beneficiary of a modest but consequential rise in corporate software budgets, and that market narrative is already shaping investor expectations, product...

The freelance cloud market in 2026 is no longer an academic debate about features — it’s a cashflow calculation: which platform and specialism will deliver the best return on your time and risk? Background / Overview The basic split is familiar but sharpened: AWS continues to lead in sheer...

For many organisations the move to the cloud has already happened — workloads have been migrated, virtual machines spun up, and SaaS rolled out — yet the expected payoff in agility, scalability and faster innovation often remains elusive. The distinction Luke Bainbridge draws in ITWeb — that...