Microsoft’s Redmond campus erupted this week when a small group of protesters — including two current employees — broke into the office of company president Brad Smith and staged a sit‑in that culminated in arrests and immediate terminations, intensifying an already fraught, months‑long dispute...
AudioCodes' Voca Conversational Interaction Center (CIC) has been certified under Microsoft’s Teams Unify model and immediately leveraged that validation to claim another industry accolade — winning UC Today’s 2025 Best Microsoft Teams Contact Center award — a development that tightens the...
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The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...
Microsoft’s emergency ultimatum to Gab in August 2018 exposed a growing fault line in internet governance: cloud providers now sit squarely between platform free-speech arguments and real-world harms when violent or genocidal rhetoric appears on hosted services. The episode — Microsoft notifying...
Microsoft’s decision to terminate employees who forcibly occupied the office of company president Brad Smith has crystallized a months‑long crisis inside the company: a clash between worker activism, journalistic investigations alleging Azure’s use in mass surveillance, and corporate claims...
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Microsoft confirmed it fired two employees after a group of protesters — including current and former staffers — broke into the Redmond office of company president Brad Smith and staged a brief sit‑in as part of an intensifying campaign over Microsoft’s ties to the Israel Defense Forces and...
Screenvision Media has completed a rapid, high-stakes migration of its core business systems into a multi‑cloud architecture built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a move executed by Oracle‑specialist managed services provider Cintra in an intensive 12‑week program that...
Microsoft's Q2 results and the wave of new analyst targets have crystallized a central tension: the company’s AI and cloud fundamentals are powerful and accelerating, yet the market’s price expectations and margin realities send mixed signals about how fast that promise will convert into durable...
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The NFL and Microsoft have dramatically expanded a partnership that has already reshaped sideline technology, upgrading the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered Surface devices, integrating Azure AI services into scouting and operations workflows, and rolling out new tools...
OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...
For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent...
OpenAI’s planned corporate overhaul — a pivotal step toward an eventual IPO and deeper outside investment — is now widely reported to be slipping into next year as fraught negotiations with its largest strategic partner, Microsoft, remain unresolved. What began as a calendar-year push to rework...
Microsoft’s position in the software industry is defined less by a single product than by a trio of connected businesses — Productivity & Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing — and the recent Benzinga snapshot comparing Microsoft to an eclectic peer group makes that...
Microsoft president Brad Smith’s compact public line — “some of what was reported needs to be tested” — is the latest punctuation in a rapidly escalating crisis for Azure, Microsoft’s relationships with the Israeli security establishment, and the cloud industry’s role in wartime intelligence and...
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A sit‑in at Microsoft’s Redmond campus that ended with arrested protesters inside the office of company president Brad Smith has erupted into a global ethics crisis for the maker of Windows and Azure, exposing fundamental tensions between cloud economics, employee activism, human‑rights...
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Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly re-architected the silicon under Azure to treat nearly every element of a server as a discrete security boundary — and it's shipping that architecture at scale across new servers this year and into 2025. What started as a collection of academic and hyperscaler...
Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA have quietly become the engine room for a new wave of scientific discovery — and three startups in the Catalyst series show how GPU-accelerated cloud infrastructure is being used to translate raw data into concrete outcomes in medicine, biology, and digital...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant tool into public preview that aims to simplify one of the messiest tasks in datacenter life: converting and migrating virtual machines from VMware vCenter/ESXi to Microsoft’s Hyper-V infrastructure using a built-in Windows Admin Center extension called...
GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...