cloud migration

Microsoft has formally announced that Office Online Server (OOS) — the on‑premises product that delivered browser‑based Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote to enterprise datacenters — will be retired and reach end of support on December 31, 2026, forcing organizations that require in‑browser...

Microsoft has made it significantly easier for organizations to move large object stores from Amazon S3 into Azure by announcing the general availability of Azure Storage Mover’s cloud-to-cloud migration capability — an agentless, server-to-server transfer path that preserves metadata, supports...

G‑AsiaPacific’s elevation to AWS Premier Tier Services Partner marks one of the clearest signals yet that Southeast Asia-born cloud consultancies can scale from regional specialists to globally validated cloud integrators — a milestone announced across industry press and confirmed by the company...

Office Online Server (OOS) retirement announced — what Exchange on‑prem customers need to know and do By WindowsForum IT Desk — Oct 21, 2025 Microsoft has announced that Office Online Server (OOS) will be retired and reach end of support on December 31, 2026. For organizations that run Exchange...

The Microsoft Azure consulting landscape in Europe is heating up: market-watchers, vendors and buyers alike are reporting strong demand for cloud migration, modernization, AI and FinOps expertise, and a new crop of consultancies — from global systems integrators to regional specialists — are...

Microsoft has quietly initiated one of the most consequential infrastructure shifts in GitHub’s post‑acquisition history: a phased migration of the platform’s production estate from GitHub‑owned colocation facilities into Microsoft Azure, a move driven by capacity constraints in Northern...

Microsoft has quietly begun the largest operational consolidation in GitHub’s post‑acquisition era: a phased migration of GitHub’s production estate onto Microsoft Azure, driven by capacity constraints in GitHub’s Northern Virginia colo footprint and the rising infrastructure demands of AI...

GitHub has quietly launched one of the most consequential infrastructure reorganizations in its post‑acquisition history: a full-scale migration of its production estate onto Microsoft Azure that GitHub engineers and Microsoft leaders describe as necessary to scale AI services like Copilot and...

Grand Traverse County’s Board of Commissioners has approved a coordinated package of technology investments that pushes several core services toward vendor‑hosted cloud models, renews enterprise productivity licensing, and seeds a controlled pilot of generative AI — moves framed publicly as a...

British Airways’ latest technology push is a full-throttle attempt to turn years of operational pain into a data-driven, AI-enabled airline — and the results so far show both impressive gains and clear new risks that every CIO, operations leader and IT professional should study closely...

Microsoft’s cloud playbook is full of maps, toolkits and incentives — but moving workloads into Azure is only the opening act; turning that infrastructure into measurable business value requires a fundamentally different conversation about modernisation, governance and long-term partner-led...

SOK and Vivicta have agreed a strategic extension of their long-term IT partnership that shifts the cooperative’s core retail platform toward public cloud operations, including a phased migration of SOK’s SAP estate to Microsoft Azure and continued managed services for a sprawling application...

Grand Traverse County is poised to approve a sweeping set of technology investments that will accelerate cloud migration across multiple departments, add 100 Microsoft Copilot AI seats, and launch a formal planning process for a new consolidated justice center — moves that collectively mark a...

Lionel Barrow’s short, furious tour of Microsoft 365 — republished and amplified by The Register — reads like a field report from an alien visitor trying to understand a human ritual: a thirty-something engineer raised on Gmail who steps into Exchange, Outlook, SharePoint, and Microsoft’s...

Windows keeps getting updated, and the quickest way to know what it’s doing on your PC is to check the version — a step that takes seconds but can shape whether your apps run, your data stays protected, and whether features like Copilot are even available to you. This practical guide explains...

Orange County Information Technology (OCIT) has formally asked the market how to move its data, applications and cloud services off Microsoft Azure — a move framed as a comprehensive “Cloud Services Migration” RFI that would, if executed, amount to a rare large-scale government cloud exit and a...

Microsoft’s Migrate and Modernize Summit landed not with a whisper but with a suite of agentic AI tools and commercial programs aimed at tearing down the friction that has long stalled cloud migrations and application modernization projects. The announcements — from GitHub Copilot’s App...

Orange County’s IT shop has opened a formal conversation about moving major workloads off Microsoft Azure, issuing a Request for Information (RFI) that explicitly asks the market how to migrate applications, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking from Azure to another cloud — a move...

Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: on October 14, 2025, routine security updates and mainstream support end for Windows 10 (version 22H2) and for perpetual releases Office 2016 and Office 2019 — a coordinated sunset that forces consumers and organizations to choose between upgrading, buying...