Microsoft has quietly—yet materially—expanded Windows 365’s regional footprint in Asia by making the Korea Central Azure region available for Cloud PC provisioning, enabling organizations operating in South Korea to host Cloud PC storage and compute within the country and reduce latency for...
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Amazon’s recent pullback has reignited a familiar debate: is Amazon falling behind in the race to monetize generative AI — or is the company quietly laying the groundwork to reclaim momentum? Investor jitters about AWS’s cloud revenue growth and Microsoft’s head start with OpenAI have pressured...
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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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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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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...
The U.S. defense establishment has entered an unmistakable pivot: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental add‑on but a strategic backbone for everything from logistics and predictive maintenance to intelligence analysis and battlefield decision support. This shift—energized by the...
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Elon Musk’s cheeky “Macrohard” provocation is grabbing headlines, but the claim that it will meaningfully dent Microsoft’s Azure business is premature — and underestimates the practical, contractual, and engineering barriers any AI‑first upstart must clear to displace a multi‑product enterprise...
Microsoft’s latest financials and the automated Benzinga snapshot together paint a deceptively simple headline: a software giant with unmatched scale, excellent profitability, and a premium valuation on sales — yet one that faces meaningful execution and regulatory risks as it doubles down on AI...
Elon Musk has a new shot across Microsoft’s bow, and this time it has a name tailor‑made for memes and search engines alike: Macrohard—a “purely AI software company,” as he described it in a post on X, pitched to simulate the work of a software giant entirely with autonomous AI agents. He framed...
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Microsoft’s open-source transformation is no longer a talking point—it’s the operating system behind how the company builds cloud services, ships developer tools, and now delivers AI at planetary scale. From a headline‑grabbing 20,000‑line patch of Linux kernel code in 2009 to the containerized...
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A handful of Arkane Lyon developers went public this month with an uncompromising demand: Microsoft must cut any ties that enable violence in Gaza — and remaining silent, they said, is tantamount to complicity. That open letter, penned by members of the French game‑workers’ union STJV at Arkane...
Microsoft sits squarely at the center of the modern software industry: colossal scale, accelerating AI monetization, and a balance sheet that lets it spend aggressively on cloud infrastructure — but the company’s market multiples, peer comparisons, and some widely circulated metrics deserve...
Microsoft’s relative valuation and operating footprint in the software industry make it both a growth story and a cautionary tale—its scale and profitability set a high bar, but automated industry snapshots can understate or misstate the scale and risks that matter to investors and IT leaders...
The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has officially entered an AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced in August upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered tools, expands Azure AI into scouting and operations, and promises richer...
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The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has entered an explicitly AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced on August 20, 2025, brings Copilot-powered assistants to coaches’ Surface tablets, expands Azure cloud infrastructure inside stadiums, and folds generative AI...
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Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and...
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Satya Nadella’s internal memo bluntly reframes Microsoft’s next act: the century-old “software factory” that Bill Gates imagined has served its purpose, but in the era of generative AI it is no longer enough — Microsoft must become an “intelligence engine” powered by AI, security, and quality...
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Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...
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Microsoft’s latest quarterly report confirms what investors and enterprise customers have been sensing for months: cloud and AI are not just growth drivers — they are the engine reshaping Microsoft’s business and the broader enterprise landscape. In the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025...
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The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...
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