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Microsoft and Alphabet entered 2026 with cloud businesses growing fast on AI demand, but Microsoft still holds the stronger enterprise platform position while Alphabet’s Google Cloud is closing the profitability and growth gap with unusually sharp momentum in the March quarter. The comparison is...

Microsoft’s early OpenAI bet was shaped between 2017 and 2019 by a mix of technical curiosity, executive skepticism, Azure strategy, and fear that the AI lab might defect to Amazon Web Services if Redmond failed to fund it. That is the less heroic version of the story now emerging from court...

Inriver announced on May 6, 2026, that its AI-powered product information management platform for manufacturing had earned Microsoft Certified Software designation and was available through Microsoft Marketplace for customers seeking Azure-integrated product data and commerce automation...

Kenya has suspended the planned $1 billion Microsoft-G42 geothermal data center near Olkaria after President William Ruto said the facility’s electricity demand could consume nearly a third of the country’s roughly 3,000-megawatt power capacity. The project was announced in May 2024 during...

Microsoft executives were debating in 2017 and 2018 whether to give OpenAI hundreds of millions of dollars in discounted Azure computing, according to emails shown in federal court during the Musk v. Altman trial in May 2026. The emails matter because they puncture the clean origin myth of the...

Microsoft executive Jessica Hawk is using Red Bull Basement’s 2026 founder program to argue that first-time entrepreneurs should treat AI not as a shortcut around judgment, but as a force multiplier for persistence, product clarity, and execution. That is a neatly Microsoft-shaped message, but...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said in a recent Microsoft Dev Docs video that Win32, the desktop Windows API rooted in the Windows 95 era, remains a first-class Windows programming surface in 2026 despite decades of attempted replacements and modernization efforts. That admission is less a...

Microsoft Azure product marketing chief Jessica Hawk told Red Bull on May 8, 2026, that first-time founders should pair persistence with practical AI tools as Microsoft again supports the Red Bull Basement student innovation program in 2026. The interview is framed as founder advice, but the...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich said in a Microsoft Dev Docs video posted May 6, 2026, that Win32 remains a first-class Windows API in 2026 because decades of applications, tools, and system behaviors were built on top of it. The admission is less a scandal than a reminder of Windows’...

Ghana’s ambassador to the United States, Victor Emmanuel Smith, met Microsoft executives in Seattle in early May 2026 to pursue cooperation on cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital skills, startup support, and Azure-based infrastructure. The meeting was not a blockbuster investment...

Microsoft told investors on April 29, 2026, that it added roughly one gigawatt of datacenter capacity during its fiscal third quarter, lifted quarterly revenue to $82.9 billion, and remains on track to double its overall AI infrastructure footprint within two years. That is the plain-English...

OpenAI and Microsoft formally loosened their exclusive cloud arrangement on April 27, 2026, clearing the way for OpenAI to serve products across non-Azure clouds just as Amazon Web Services expanded its own OpenAI partnership the next day. That is not a divorce, but it is no longer the old...

Microsoft reported $82.9 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, up 18 percent year over year, with Azure and other cloud services growing 40 percent as AI demand continued to carry the company’s cloud business. The headline is not that Microsoft missed the AI moment; it is that...

Amazon Web Services has moved from AI infrastructure contender to direct OpenAI distribution partner, giving enterprise customers a new path to use OpenAI models without shifting core workloads to Microsoft Azure. The limited-preview arrival of OpenAI models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents on...

OpenAI and Microsoft have redrawn one of the defining alliances of the generative AI era, ending key exclusive arrangements while keeping the partnership strategically intact. Under the amended deal, OpenAI gains the freedom to offer its models and products across other cloud platforms, while...

Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten the terms of one of the technology industry’s most consequential AI partnerships, trading strict exclusivity for a broader, more flexible operating model. The amended agreement keeps Microsoft Azure at the center of OpenAI’s infrastructure strategy while...

OpenAI and Microsoft have rewritten the commercial rules behind one of the defining alliances of the AI era, loosening exclusivity while keeping Azure at the center of the relationship. The amended agreement gives OpenAI the freedom to serve products across any cloud provider, while Microsoft...

OpenAI and Microsoft have rewritten the terms of one of the most important partnerships in modern technology, preserving a deep alliance while loosening the exclusivity that helped define the first wave of commercial generative AI. Under the amended agreement announced on April 27, 2026...

Microsoft and OpenAI Loosen Their Landmark AI Alliance, Opening Door to AWS and Other Cloud Platforms Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the most important business arrangements in the artificial intelligence industry, ending key parts of the exclusivity that once made Microsoft the...

Moore and Microsoft Bring Agentic AI to Nonprofit Fundraising With SimioAccelerate Moore has introduced SimioAccelerate, a new AI-powered fundraising intelligence platform built in collaboration with Microsoft on Microsoft Azure, positioning the product as a way for nonprofits of varying sizes...