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NTT DATA signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire Santa Clara-based WinWire, a Microsoft-focused cloud and AI consultancy with delivery centers in India and more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists. The deal is less about buying another systems integrator than about buying...

Universitas Terbuka, Indonesia’s public open and distance-learning university, said on May 15, 2026 that it has built a Microsoft Azure-based digital learning foundation using Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Foundry, Kubernetes, databases, and security tooling to support large-scale AI-assisted...

Amdocs said on May 13, 2026, that it will migrate one of Lumen Technologies’ enterprise billing platforms to Microsoft Azure, extending an existing relationship that has already moved some Lumen systems to Google Cloud as part of the U.S. carrier’s cloud-first strategy. The announcement is easy...

Microsoft’s historical Azure work with Ripple-related technology resurfaced in May 2026 after MEXC amplified reporting that Azure Blockchain as a Service once supported Ripple infrastructure and that Microsoft explored Interledger for payment interoperability. The important word is historical...

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott testified Wednesday in federal court in Oakland that a 2018 email questioning OpenAI’s commercial plans was about Microsoft’s diligence and competitive risk, not proof that Microsoft knew OpenAI was betraying its nonprofit mission. That distinction is now central to...

Microsoft and Alphabet both strengthened their claims on the mega-cap AI trade after their late-April 2026 earnings reports, but the cleaner portfolio move is not choosing one outright; it is adjusting the MSFT-GOOGL split around Microsoft’s supply constraints and Alphabet’s faster cloud...

Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar OpenAI investment is now producing revenue through Azure usage, revenue-sharing payments, and AI software subscriptions, with recent reporting saying Microsoft may receive up to $38 billion from OpenAI under a capped arrangement running through 2030. The important...

Kyndryl said on May 12, 2026, that its Microsoft alliance is now focused on moving enterprise AI from isolated pilots into governed production operations, combining Kyndryl’s managed-services model, Agentic AI Framework, Kyndryl Bridge insights, and Digital Trust controls with Microsoft Azure...

Kyndryl used a May 12, 2026 article by Microsoft alliance leader Gonzalo Escajadillo to argue that enterprise AI is moving from pilots into governed operations, with Microsoft Azure supplying the platform and Kyndryl supplying the implementation discipline. The claim is not that another chatbot...

Kyndryl published a May 12, 2026 article by Gonzalo Escajadillo, its senior vice president for the Microsoft Alliance, arguing that enterprise AI value now depends on operationalizing Microsoft Azure, Copilot, security, data, and agentic workflows through Kyndryl’s managed-services model. The...

Data and AI consultancy Eunoia has earned Microsoft’s Analytics on Microsoft Azure Specialisation shortly before appearing at Cloud Tech Expo in Limassol on May 15, 2026, giving the Malta-headquartered and Cyprus-operating firm a newly audited credential in enterprise cloud analytics. The badge...

Hi everyone, I’m researching how enterprises are modernizing their IT environments using Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Platform Services (IaaS + PaaS) in 2026. How are organizations balancing AI scalability, cybersecurity, hybrid cloud governance, disaster recovery, Kubernetes/container...

Konverge AI said on May 9, 2026, that it has become a Microsoft Data & AI Partner, giving the Wilmington, Delaware-based decision-science and AI engineering firm deeper access to Microsoft’s Azure, marketplace, support, and advisory ecosystem. The announcement is not just another partner-program...

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...