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Additional coverage of this story: Azure Deploys 3M EBO Fiber to Speed AI Data Center Builds Stock Titan adds that Microsoft tested EBO in live data-center conditions and that 3M plans to more than double U.S. EBO production capacity; it also notes planned collaboration around Microsoft’s...

Microsoft and 3M have announced a strategic partnership that puts 3M’s Expanded Beam Optical (EBO) fiber-connectivity technology into Azure data centers and brings Microsoft AI tools into 3M’s internal operations. According to Microsoft’s July 15 announcement, Azure will be the first publicly...

Hanshow has signed a Strategic Partner Agreement with Microsoft aimed at expanding their work on cloud-connected retail systems, particularly Store Digital Twin deployments, Azure infrastructure and joint sales efforts. The deal was announced July 15 at Microsoft’s Executive Briefing Center in...

A newly listed commercial research report claims to map more than 100 deployments of Microsoft-designed processors across Azure, down to country and, in selected cases, city or state level. The analysis spans 24 countries and covers Maia AI accelerators, Cobalt Arm CPUs, Azure Boost DPUs, and...

Synoverge Technologies says it has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) designation, a partner-program credential covering Azure data, analytics, and AI delivery. The Ahmedabad, India-based services firm announced the designation in a July 2026 release distributed through...

Microsoft’s recent partner activity points to a familiar enterprise strategy: make Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra and Fabric the control plane beneath industry-specific AI deployments rather than treating Copilot as a standalone product. A Simply Wall St report published July 13 grouped several...

Microsoft is pitching agentic AI as a practical next step for public-sector modernization, with its Worldwide Public Sector chief Philippe Rogge arguing that governments can use AI agents to handle high-volume, rules-driven work while retaining human accountability for consequential decisions...

HackerNoon has assembled 140 free blog posts about Microsoft Azure, ranked by its reader-engagement data, into a sprawling learning index that ranges from identity and serverless code to Kubernetes, multicloud migration, cost control, outages, artificial intelligence, and certification...

Starbucks is developing AI-assisted in-house replacements for a Microsoft inventory-management system and an IBM maintenance platform, according to an internal presentation reported on July 9, 2026, as the coffee chain looks to reduce roughly $400 million in annual software spending and...

Everpure, formerly Pure Storage, has appointed former Microsoft executive Amit Bansal as Director – Public Sector & PSU in New Delhi, putting him in charge of Central Government, State Government and public sector undertaking accounts. CRN Asia reported that his mandate covers public-sector...

Microsoft Corporation, MSFT on its US listing and ISIN US5949181045, remains a Nasdaq heavyweight because its cloud infrastructure, AI services, enterprise subscriptions, Windows ecosystem, developer tools, security stack, and consumer franchises all feed a single strategy: make Microsoft the...

Microsoft said on July 8, 2026, that it has built an internal multi-agent AI system to evaluate and harden Microsoft cloud services under the Secure Future Initiative, compressing deep security reviews from weeks of expert work into hours of automated analysis. This is not a new product, and...

Unstructured announced on June 3, 2026, a collaboration with Microsoft that expands its Azure integration so enterprises can prepare documents, PDFs, presentations, emails, images, and other content for generative AI, RAG, copilots, AI search, and agentic workflows running on Microsoft Azure...

Transcard has partnered with Coretek to build an AI-driven payments intelligence foundation on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric, with financing recommendations embedded directly into Transcard’s existing Insight Tab for buyers and suppliers. That is the direct news outcome from Technology...

Hyland announced on June 1, 2026, in Kissimmee, Florida, a strategic partnership with Microsoft to bring the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud to Microsoft Azure, pairing Hyland’s governed enterprise content platform with Azure’s cloud ecosystem for regulated, AI-driven enterprise workflows at...

Nokia signed a multi-year agreement with SAP, announced July 2026 and concluded at the end of 2025, to move its SAP S/4HANA environment into a RISE with SAP transformation model hosted on Microsoft Azure. The deal is not a flashy consumer launch, but it is the sort of enterprise plumbing...

Microsoft is leaning on Azure, Microsoft 365, and Copilot-led artificial intelligence services in 2026 as global enterprise demand keeps shifting from one-time software licensing toward cloud subscriptions, usage-based infrastructure, and AI tools embedded across business workflows. The AD HOC...

Microsoft formalized Microsoft Frontier Company on July 2, 2026, committing $2.5 billion and roughly 6,000 industry and engineering specialists to help enterprise customers deploy AI systems built around Azure, Copilot, agents, and customer data. The move answers a real market problem: companies...

On July 2, 2026, Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion Microsoft Frontier Company initiative that will put roughly 6,000 employees into enterprise AI deployment work, pairing engineers, trainers, sales specialists, and industry experts directly with large customers including Unilever and Novo...

On July 1, 2026, President Donald Trump toured the newly built Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, where he interacted with a life-size, AI-powered hologram of Roosevelt before the library’s July 4 public opening. The scene was strange because it was not merely a...