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Microsoft’s cloud licensing model has moved from a regulatory irritation to a full-scale legal and market test, and the latest development is a major one. The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has allowed a £2bn class action over Windows Server licensing to proceed on an opt-out basis, opening the...

Cricket Australia’s new AI Insights experience is more than a feature update for its live app. It is a clear signal that sports media is shifting from simple scores and highlights toward context-rich storytelling powered by cloud AI, historical data, and real-time personalization. By combining a...

TAL’s expanded Microsoft partnership is more than another routine cloud announcement: it is a deliberate bid to rewire a major Australian life insurer around data, automation, and generative AI. The five-year deal pushes TAL deeper into Azure, broadens the use of Microsoft AI tools across the...

The New Zealand Geotechnical Database has become a striking example of how public-interest infrastructure can evolve when engineering data, cloud computing, and AI assistants are brought together with clear rules and strong governance. Born from the hard lessons of the February 2011 Christchurch...

Microsofts neuer Fünfjahres-Deal mit Stellantis ist mehr als nur ein weiterer Cloud-Vertrag. Er zeigt, wie ernst es klassische Autobauer inzwischen mit der KI-Transformation meinen — und wie stark Big Tech dabei zum strategischen Partner der Industrie wird. Für Microsoft ist die Kooperation ein...

Microsoft Azure is moving from being a cloud platform that hosts entertainment workloads to being a more visible engine for content creation itself, and Jio Studios’ AI-native teaser for Krishna is a striking sign of that shift. The collaboration between Jio Studios, Collective Studios, and...

For Fonterra, AI is no longer a side project or a futurist talking point. It is becoming part of how the co-operative runs factories, plans work, supports governance and helps employees make faster decisions across a business that spans more than 100 countries. That matters because in a company...

The aviation industry is moving from isolated digital pilots to integrated, enterprise-grade AI deployments, and the latest TK Elevator-Microsoft partnership is a strong example of that shift. What makes the collaboration noteworthy is not just the use of cloud and AI, but the way it reflects a...

As generative AI moves from experimentation into the operating core of enterprise software, Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group’s new Microsoft-backed transformation stands out for one reason: it is not trying to make retail look intelligent, but to make the business actually run that way. The company...

ประเทศไทยกำลังก้าวเข้าสู่ยุคใหม่ของการอ่านเอกซเรย์ด้วย RAMAAI ระบบ AI ที่พัฒนาโดยโรงพยาบาลรามาธิบดีและทำงานบน Microsoft Azure เพื่อช่วยคัดกรองภาพเอกซเรย์ทรวงอกและจัดลำดับความเร่งด่วนของเคสที่น่ากังวล โดยเฉพาะโรคติดเชื้อและภาวะรุนแรงที่ต้องได้รับการตรวจทานโดยแพทย์เร็วที่สุด (news.microsoft.com)...

North Carolina’s decision to hand Kyndryl an $84.8 million contract for a cloud-native DMV overhaul is more than a routine public-sector procurement. It is a high-stakes bet that one of the most painful legacy technology stacks in state government can finally be consolidated, modernized, and...

Microsoft is back in the market’s good graces, and the reason is not hard to see: investors are increasingly treating Azure capacity and Copilot adoption as the two levers that will determine whether the next leg of MSFT’s AI story becomes a real earnings surprise or just another expensive...

Stellantis’ new five-year partnership with Microsoft is more than another corporate AI announcement; it is a clear sign that the automaker wants artificial intelligence to become part of its operating system, not just a side project. The deal puts more than 100 AI initiatives into motion across...

Inriver’s move to embed agentic AI into its product information management platform marks a meaningful shift in how commerce teams handle one of their most stubborn operational headaches: product content at global scale. The Swedish software company says its Azure-based approach is already...

Whakarongorau Aotearoa is making one of the clearest statements yet about where AI belongs in healthcare: not at the end of the line, but at the very front of it. The New Zealand telehealth provider is preparing to launch a Microsoft Azure AI-powered Welcome service that greets people instantly...

Stellantis’ new five-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than another automotive AI headline. It is a signal that software-defined vehicles, connected services, and cyber defense are now being treated as core industrial capabilities rather than nice-to-have experiments. The companies say...

Microsoft’s move into Narvik is the latest sign that AI infrastructure is becoming a strategic asset on par with chips, cloud contracts, and model access. The company has reportedly taken over a major Norwegian data center project that was initially positioned for OpenAI, turning a high-profile...

Schneider Electric’s latest collaboration with Microsoft is more than another industrial AI announcement. It is a concrete demonstration that open, software-defined automation is moving from theory to field-tested reality, and that the shift matters most in places where downtime is costly and...

Stellantis’ reported five-year AI partnership with Microsoft lands at a moment when automakers are under unusual pressure to modernize faster, cut software costs, and prove that connected-car ambitions can produce real business value. If the agreement holds up as described, it would extend a...

Microsoft is tightening its grip on the physical layer of AI at exactly the moment OpenAI is trying to loosen its dependence on any single infrastructure partner. The reported Norwegian deal in Narvik, built around a 230MW campus and more than 30,000 Nvidia Rubin GPUs, is not just another data...