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N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles’ decision to award its system modernization program to Kyndryl marks one of the most consequential back-office overhauls North Carolina has attempted in decades. The project is not just a software refresh; it is a wholesale replacement of five legacy COBOL-era...

SoDa’s move to place TAIM Insight Hub on Microsoft Azure is more than a routine channel announcement; it is a small but revealing signal about where enterprise AI is heading in the Gulf. The platform is pitched as a natural-language layer over fragmented corporate data, promising that employees...

Microsoft’s latest stock story is becoming harder to tell in simple, bullish terms. The company still looks like one of the best-positioned players in enterprise AI, but investors are asking a more demanding question now: how quickly does that leadership translate into durable growth, especially...

CUBE’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft is a notable sign that AI-driven compliance has moved from pilot-project territory into core financial infrastructure. By pairing CUBE’s Automated Regulatory Intelligence with Microsoft Azure, the two companies are betting that regulatory change...

Microsoft and Nvidia are taking another step beyond the familiar AI data-center story, this time aiming their combined software stack at one of the hardest infrastructure problems in the energy sector: nuclear power. According to the companies’ announcement, the partnership will use Microsoft...

CUBE’s new partnership with Microsoft is more than a routine channel announcement; it is a signal that regulatory compliance is becoming an AI-native enterprise function. The collaboration brings CUBE’s regulatory intelligence and RegPlatform™ into Microsoft’s cloud and marketplace ecosystem...

Microsoft’s reported move to lease abandoned AI data center capacity in Abilene, Texas is more than a simple real-estate transaction. It signals how quickly the generative AI infrastructure race is shifting from grand announcements to hard-nosed capacity arbitrage, with major cloud vendors...

Adactin’s launch of AFIVE is a timely reminder that the next phase of enterprise AI is not just about generating text, but about making internal knowledge usable at scale. The Australian technology services provider says the new platform is designed to unify scattered information sources, reduce...

Informatica’s deeper Microsoft integration is more than a routine channel update: it signals how quickly the data-management market is converging around the Azure ecosystem, and how service providers are being positioned as the delivery engine for that change. The move matters because it ties...

Microsoft and OpenAI are once again testing the limits of a partnership that helped define the generative AI boom. The latest flashpoint is OpenAI’s new Stateful Runtime Environment for Amazon Bedrock, a product OpenAI announced on February 27, 2026 in partnership with Amazon, while Microsoft...

Microsoft’s promotion of Mohit Garg to vice president of engineering for AI network infrastructure is a small personnel story with outsized strategic meaning. It points to a much larger shift inside Microsoft: the company is treating networking, interconnects, and datacenter plumbing as...

Microsoft’s reported concern over an OpenAI-AWS product potentially clashing with its Azure contract lands at the exact intersection where cloud economics, AI distribution, and partnership law are now colliding. The question is not simply whether OpenAI can use AWS; it is whether a specific...

HighPoint’s reported acquisition of CloudView Partners signals a deliberate step by a seasoned infrastructure and cybersecurity integrator toward closing the gap between classic systems-integration and modern cloud-native platform engineering, with the stated aim of delivering full‑stack digital...

Japan’s competition watchdog executed a high‑profile on‑site inspection of Microsoft’s Tokyo offices in late February, opening a formal probe into whether the software giant’s licensing, pricing and technical practices steered customers toward Microsoft Azure and made it harder or more expensive...

Microsoft's Japanese arm says it is “fully cooperating” with the Japan Fair Trade Commission after investigators executed an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices as part of a probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and commercial practices steered customers...

Japan’s competition authority carried out an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan’s Tokyo offices on Feb. 25, 2026, as part of an antitrust probe into whether the company’s cloud‑related licensing and technical practices tied to Microsoft Azure have discouraged customers from using rival cloud...

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...

Microsoft is teaming with SpaceX’s Starlink to push high‑speed satellite internet into underserved communities around the world, a move that folds orbital connectivity into Microsoft’s cloud expansion playbook and shifts the battleground for the “next billion” cloud customers into low Earth...

Microsoft’s decades‑long effort to recast itself as the tech industry’s “moral conscience” took a jarring turn this month after leaked procurement files and investigative reporting revealed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) dramatically expanded its use of Microsoft Azure...

Microsoft’s terse denial — that it “does not believe” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using its technology for mass civilian surveillance — has landed at the center of a fresh debate about cloud scale, algorithmic capabilities, and corporate responsibility after reporting that...