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The four drivers to watch at the Windows 10 400 were Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Denny Hamlin, and Joey Logano, as NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series returned to Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on August 2, 2015. The race was nominally a stock-car event, but its branding made it...

Microsoft said on June 23, 2026, that its first Fairwater data center in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is fully operational on 315 acres of former Foxconn land, with nearly 550 full-time workers on-site and a second facility already under construction for 2028. That is the simple version: a failed...

Shoosmiths has launched Project Apollo, a proprietary generative AI contract review system developed with Microsoft over the past year, designed to apply the UK law firm’s internal dealmaking knowledge to contract markups while giving lawyers an auditable explanation for each recommendation. The...

EY’s April 2026 global rollout of agentic AI in Assurance embeds a Microsoft-integrated multi-agent framework into EY Canvas, the firm’s worldwide audit platform used across roughly 160,000 engagements by 130,000 Assurance professionals in more than 150 countries and territories. The...

Microsoft said on June 24, 2026, that its owned datacenter fleet has cut average water use effectiveness from 2.3 liters per kilowatt-hour in the early 2000s to 0.27 L/kWh in 2025 while cloud and AI demand keeps rising. That is the clean version of a messier story: Microsoft has learned how to...

UK law firm Shoosmiths unveiled Project Apollo on June 24, 2026, a self-developed generative AI contract review platform built with Microsoft support, running in Azure, and now being deployed across the firm after a year-long build and pilot. The announcement matters less because another law...

Microsoft announced on June 23, 2026, that its first Fairwater datacenter facility in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, is fully operational after equipment came online in April, completing the first phase of a major AI infrastructure campus in Racine County. The milestone is less about a single...

Gadali has reported that Schedtris, an AI scheduling system built with ECH and Microsoft Elevate and deployed in ECH’s Azure environment, cut ECH’s morning aged-care rescheduling time by 50 percent while recovering 15 hours of scheduling capacity each week in operations. The claim is narrow...

ICON plc announced on June 22, 2026, in Dublin that it has selected Microsoft as a preferred technology partner for a three-year digital innovation and AI investment plan spanning Microsoft 365 Copilot, Fabric, Azure data services, and clinical-trial AI infrastructure. The deal matters less as...

CUBE announced on March 25, 2026, that its regulatory intelligence platform is now working alongside Microsoft Azure to help financial institutions automate regulatory change management, compliance mapping, and risk oversight at global scale. The deal is not just another marketplace listing...

Microsoft said on June 22, 2026, that it will build a new datacenter campus in Pecos, Texas, adding roughly 2 gigawatts of cloud and AI capacity through a multibillion-dollar project planned over the next five to seven years. The announcement is not just another dot on Azure’s global map. It is...

Infrastructure as a Service in Tanzania is a small but strategically important public-cloud market in which businesses, government agencies, and digital service providers rent compute, storage, and networking capacity from global cloud platforms rather than buying and operating their own...

A1 Technologies has earned Microsoft’s Infrastructure and Database Migration to Azure specialisation in Australia after an independent audit of completed customer migration projects across financial services, construction, and scientific research. The badge is not a revolution in cloud...

Microsoft shareholders filed a proposed securities class action in Seattle federal court in June 2026 alleging that Microsoft misled investors between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026, about Azure growth, Copilot adoption, AI infrastructure costs, and the pressure those demands placed on the...

Microsoft has chosen Checkout.com to handle card acceptance for major Microsoft products including Xbox, Microsoft 365, and Azure across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, using Microsoft’s Payments API and Checkout.com’s Intelligent Acceptance platform to route transactions through a unified...

Microsoft reportedly paused fresh hiring in parts of Azure Core and North American sales in March 2026, with managers told not to advance candidates lacking signed offers as the company tried to protect margins before its June fiscal year-end. The move is narrower than a companywide freeze, but...

Arccos Caddie launched in May 2017 as a Microsoft Azure-powered golf platform that combined automatic shot tracking, cloud analytics, machine learning, and course data to recommend clubs and strategies for ordinary players before and during rounds. It was a sports-tech story dressed as a golf...

Perigus Energy has adopted Cegal’s Cetegra platform on Microsoft Azure as the GIS foundation for its European onshore renewables business, supporting wind, solar, and battery storage operations across the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Spain after its separation from Ørsted. The deal is...

Microsoft is selling access to OpenAI models through Azure to major Chinese companies, with Bloomberg reporting on June 18, 2026, that ByteDance is on pace to spend more than $1 billion annually on Microsoft AI and cloud services. That fact is not just another cloud-sales milestone. It exposes...

Microsoft is supplying OpenAI’s GPT models to major Chinese technology companies through Azure regions outside mainland China, with reports on June 18, 2026 naming ByteDance, Ant Group, Tencent and Meituan as customers despite OpenAI and Anthropic avoiding direct China-market service. That...