japan market

Japan’s Fair Trade Commission executed an on‑site inspection of Microsoft Japan in late February 2026, opening a formal probe into whether the company’s licensing, pricing, or technical arrangements steered enterprise customers toward Microsoft Azure and made it harder or more expensive to run...

Japan’s competition watchdog has opened a formal probe of Microsoft’s cloud business, focusing on whether commercial and technical conditions tied to Microsoft 365, Windows Server and other key software steer customers toward Azure and disadvantage rival cloud platforms — and the agency has...

Optical drives are quietly back on the shopping lists of Japanese PC buyers, and the cause is as practical as it is cultural: the end of Windows 10 support forced a refresh cycle that exposed a simple compatibility gap—new Windows 11 machines often omit internal optical bays—prompting a wave of...

Cooler Master’s new MasterBox CM695 lands in Japan with a full-size 5.25‑inch front bay at a moment when optical drives are suddenly back in the conversation — a deliberate nod to a market that still values discs, and a reminder that case design can still answer regional needs rather than global...

Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...

Windows 11’s role in driving market momentum was on full display in the first quarter of 2025 as global PC shipments climbed to 59 million units—a 4.8% increase over last year. Behind these numbers lurks a blend of strategic moves by vendors and rapidly evolving user demands that have helped...