cloud computing

Microsoft and Iberdrola have signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain that together represent 150 MW of contracted wind capacity and, crucially, mark a deeper strategic tie-up that bundles renewable energy procurement with a broad Azure‑based AI and cloud rollout across the...

Microsoft’s position in the software industry is often described in absolute superlatives — dominant platform, cloud leader, AI frontrunner — but a closer look at the numbers and the comparatives shows how much the story changes when you inspect methodology, reporting windows and peer selection...

Microsoft and Iberdrola have signed two long‑term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain that add 150 MW of contracted wind capacity to Microsoft’s European renewable portfolio, and the deal doubles as a strategic technology partnership that will lean on Azure, Microsoft Copilot, and joint...

Iberdrola and Microsoft have taken their decade-long flirtation with energy and cloud services into a deeper strategic embrace: the companies announced long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Spain that secure 150 MW of wind capacity and an expanded technology pact that brings Microsoft...

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have announced a joint effort to build Sanctum, a cloud‑backed, AI‑driven counter‑unmanned aerial system (C‑UAS) platform that combines Lockheed Martin’s defense engineering with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and AI toolchain to detect, classify and respond to hostile...

Brussels has published formal market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, a move that opens a 12‑month fact‑finding window into whether the two hyperscalers function as regulated “gatekeepers” for cloud computing services —...

Wipro and Microsoft this week unveiled a three‑year strategic partnership anchored by a new Microsoft Innovation Hub at Wipro’s Partner Labs in Bengaluru, a move that commits both firms to accelerating enterprise AI adoption through co‑innovation, large‑scale Copilot deployments, and targeted...

Maharashtra’s government and Microsoft unveiled an ambitious AI policing platform in Mumbai this week, and the public photograph of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis talking with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has become a shorthand for a broader push: deploying generative AI and cloud services to...

The AI infrastructure wars are no longer a forecast — they are the single largest capital race in modern technology, and the companies that supply the compute, the clouds, and the specialized silicon are already reshaping markets, policy and investor portfolios around the world. Background: what...

Copilot users in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe were briefly locked out of Microsoft’s AI assistant on December 9, 2025, after a surge in traffic overwhelmed autoscaling controls and produced region-specific service failures that were visible on public trackers and acknowledged by...

Microsoft has quietly completed the long arc from “assistant” to platform: Copilot is no longer an optional chatbot add‑on that lives in a separate pane — it is being embedded as a first‑class, context‑aware productivity engine across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive/SharePoint...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud now sits at the center of a major data‑privacy and human‑rights controversy after the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) lodged a formal GDPR complaint alleging Microsoft Ireland unlawfully processed and enabled the transfer of Palestinian personal data used by the...

Microsoft is facing a formal regulatory complaint in the European Union after a non‑profit organisation alleged that data stored on Microsoft’s Azure cloud — including recordings and related metadata from Palestinians — was handled in a way that enabled Israeli military surveillance and was...

The Premier League has handed its vast archive—and a significant portion of fan engagement—to a new technological playmaker: Microsoft. Announced in a public press program on July 1, 2025, the League named Microsoft its official cloud and AI partner under a five‑year agreement and launched the...

Google’s quiet withdrawal of its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a consequential tactical pivot: the company has stepped out of a one‑on‑one regulatory fight and handed the contest to Brussels, where the European Commission’s newly launched market investigations...

Satya Nadella is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft and has served as the company’s chairman as well—he has been Microsoft’s CEO since February 4, 2014 and was named chairman of the board in June 2021. Background / Overview Microsoft, founded in 1975, is one of the world’s largest and most...

Amazon’s twin AI moves this week — a headline-grabbing pledge to build supercomputing and classified cloud capacity for U.S. government customers alongside the longer-running multiyear compute relationship between OpenAI and AWS — have reset the narrative around Amazon’s capital intensity...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s Azure cloud services is a strategic pivot that hands the dispute over cloud licensing and alleged vendor lock‑in to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement architecture — a move that reframes a...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, a tactical pivot that hands the dispute over cloud competition to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations and reframes the fight from private litigation to public...

Alphabet’s Google has formally withdrawn its formal complaint to the European Commission alleging that Microsoft’s cloud licensing and commercial practices lock customers into Azure — a move that comes after Brussels opened a sweeping set of market investigations into the cloud sector that could...