health data

France’s decision to move the Health Data Hub away from Microsoft Azure and onto Scaleway, the cloud arm of Iliad, is more than a vendor swap. It is a strategic repatriation of one of the country’s most sensitive public data platforms, and a signal that European governments are becoming less...

France’s decision to move the Health Data Hub from Microsoft Azure to Scaleway is more than a vendor change. It is a symbolic reversal in one of Europe’s most politically charged cloud contracts, and it underscores how far the continent’s cloud sovereignty debate has shifted since the platform...

Satya Nadella’s short, pointed message to Microsoft’s gaming teams — “For me, we’re long on gaming. We’ll continue to invest, and we’ll always do so.” — landed like both a reassurance and a challenge: reassurance that the company’s commitment to games remains, and a challenge that words must now...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot push has a new—and arguably personal—ambition: to become the place you hand your medical records and wearable data and ask for an intelligible summary, a second opinion, or a prep sheet for your next doctor’s visit. The company’s Copilot Health preview promises to pull...

Microsoft’s entry into consumer-facing healthcare AI with Copilot Health is the latest, high-stakes chapter in a fast-moving contest among the cloud giants to own how people ask — and act on — medical questions, and it crystallizes a simple strategic truth: if users are willing to hand over...