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Tech Mahindra and Microsoft announced on June 30, 2026, that they are collaborating on an AI-driven 5G network digital twin for telecom operators, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Digital Twins, Azure AI Foundry, and Tech Mahindra’s telco services expertise. The pitch is not simply...

Tech Mahindra and Microsoft announced on June 30, 2026, that they are collaborating on an AI-driven 5G network digital twin for medium and large telecom operators, combining Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Digital Twins, Microsoft Foundry, and Tech Mahindra’s telecom operations...

Tech Mahindra said on June 30, 2026, that it has partnered with Microsoft to advance telecom modernization through an AI-driven 5G Network Digital Twin, combining Tech Mahindra’s telecom services expertise with Microsoft’s cloud, data, and AI platforms for communications service providers. The...

Microsoft made Azure Linux 4.0 publicly available in June 2026 as a preview release through Azure virtual machine images, container images, and downloadable ISO files, giving testers a way to install Microsoft’s Fedora-derived Linux distribution outside Azure for the first time. That last detail...

On June 25 and June 26, 2026, European regulators opened two new fronts against Microsoft: Brussels said Azure may be designated a Digital Markets Act gatekeeper, while Italy’s competition authority began probing Microsoft 365 price increases tied to Copilot and Designer. The timing matters...

NVIDIA said on June 29, 2026, that Anthropic’s Claude models in Microsoft Foundry are now generally available on Microsoft Azure running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra systems, giving Azure customers a new hosted route to build enterprise AI agents. The announcement is not just another...

Anthropic’s Claude models became generally available in Microsoft Foundry on June 29, 2026, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Azure for enterprise customers that want to build domain-specific and autonomous AI agents. The announcement is less about another model appearing in...

Haleon announced a five-year collaboration with Microsoft in June 2026 to expand its use of Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, agentic AI, identity, security, and governance tools across its global consumer health business. The deal is not merely another enterprise Copilot rollout; it is Microsoft’s...

Microsoft said on June 28, 2026, that it has formally intervened before the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Latombe v. Commission case to defend the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, the legal arrangement that lets certified U.S. companies receive personal data from the European...

Bryson DeChambeau worked with Microsoft and Redmond-based Sensoria in 2016 to prototype a pressure-sensing golf grip that used embedded sensors, Microsoft Azure, and Surface-based visualization to measure how his hands loaded the club throughout the swing. The gadget was never merely a golf...

Microsoft and Commvault announced on June 24, 2026, that Commvault’s AI-enabled cyber-resilience platform will be offered as a native independent software vendor service inside Microsoft Azure, with public preview expected this summer. The deal is not just another marketplace listing with a...

Commvault and Microsoft announced on June 24, 2026, that Microsoft will offer Commvault’s AI-powered cyber resilience technology as a native independent software vendor service inside Microsoft Azure for enterprise customers. The move is not just another marketplace listing with friendlier...

WinWire said on June 25, 2026, that it has earned Microsoft’s Frontier Partner badge within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, positioning the Santa Clara-based NTT DATA company as a validated services partner for enterprise AI, agentic AI, Azure, Copilot, Power Platform, data engineering...

Microsoft announced in Gdansk, Poland, on June 26, 2026, that it will keep providing free cloud services, cybersecurity assistance, and other technology support to Ukrainian government bodies, schools, and regional authorities through the end of 2027. The extension pushes one of the war’s most...

European Union antitrust regulators said on June 25, 2026, that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be designated as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act after a seven-month investigation into whether cloud infrastructure has become a critical business gateway in Europe. The...

The European Union is moving toward treating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as Digital Markets Act “gatekeepers” after opening cloud market investigations in Brussels on November 18, 2025, with stakeholder roundtables scheduled for July 1, 2026. The decision is not merely another...

On June 25, 2026, Front Office Sports published a Microsoft-presented explainer showing how the Premier League uses Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot, live match telemetry, and decades of historical records to turn match data into real-time fan, club, and broadcast intelligence. The pitch is not...

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...