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Japan’s competition enforcers have executed an on-site inspection of Microsoft’s Japanese offices after local media and international reporting said the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) is investigating whether Microsoft improperly limited customers’ ability to run Microsoft software on rival...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage service promises to turn the scattershot promise of “agentic AI” pilots into repeatable, governed production at enterprise scale — and it does so in public partnership with Microsoft, explicitly positioning Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft’s agent governance...

Replit’s agentic platform, now tightly integrated with Microsoft Azure, is being positioned as a blockbuster shortcut for enterprises that want to put software-building power directly into the hands of non‑engineering employees — and large systems integrators like Hexaware are already packaging...

Microsoft’s cloud suffered a regional power hiccup on February 7, 2026 that left a slice of the West US Azure footprint struggling — and it’s a reminder that even the biggest cloud platforms can be vulnerable to physical infrastructure failures and cascading recovery effects. (theverge.com)...

CAEVES’s announcement that its Intelligent Deep Storage™ is generally available for Microsoft Azure promises to turn long‑forgotten enterprise archives into instantly searchable, AI‑ready assets while cutting storage bills “by up to 70%”—a bold, practical pitch aimed squarely at organizations...

Rocky Linux 9 arrives in enterprises and clouds as a pragmatic choice: it promises RHEL‑equivalent stability and a predictable, decade‑long lifecycle while letting organizations run RHEL‑compatible workloads in Microsoft Azure without vendor subscription lock‑in. This article cuts through the...

Microsoft used Web Summit Qatar 2026 to put a clear stake in the ground: agentic AI, governed enterprise platforms, and partner-built solutions on Microsoft Azure are the practical pathway Microsoft wants governments and large organizations in Qatar to follow — but the announcements also...

Synoverge’s announcement that it has been awarded the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation in Digital & App Innovation | Azure is a clear signal that the Ahmedabad‑based digital transformation firm is intensifying its alignment with Microsoft’s cloud and developer platform priorities — but...

Microsoft’s cloud story has split into two competing narratives: headline metrics showing a deceleration in Azure growth, and behind-the-scenes indicators — a record revenue backlog fueled largely by long-term OpenAI commitments — that point to a very different future trajectory. The short...

Microsoft’s Copilot: From Hype to “Afterthought” — Can the Story Change This Quarter? By [Your Name] — January 2026 Summary: Over the last 18 months Microsoft poured people, product and capital into a sweeping strategy to make “Copilot” the AI layer across Windows, Microsoft 365, GitHub and...

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...