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A concentrated cluster of undersea cable failures in the Red Sea has throttled internet performance across South Asia and the Gulf, forcing cloud providers and carriers to reroute traffic and leaving businesses and consumers to contend with higher latency, intermittent packet loss, and slower...

The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is Microsoft’s most aggressively positioned laptop in years: a heavy-duty, convertible Windows workstation built around 13th‑Gen Intel H‑series silicon, up to NVIDIA RTX 40‑series graphics and a dedicated Intel Movidius NPU — and Microsoft even used an on‑stage...

Microsoft’s terse Service Health advisory on September 6, 2025 — warning that “network traffic traversing through the Middle East may experience increased latency due to undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea” — was the first public signal of a disruption that quickly rippled through global cloud...

Microsoft’s long-running legal battle with UK reseller ValueLicensing has reopened at the Competition Appeal Tribunal, and this time the dispute centres not just on alleged anti-competitive conduct but on a provocative legal contention from Microsoft: that reselling pre‑owned copies of Office...

Multiple undersea fibre‑optic cables in the Red Sea were severed in early September, producing widespread slowdowns for Internet users and measurable latency for cloud customers — a disruption that exposed how the physical backbone of the Internet can become a single point of failure for modern...

Microsoft’s Azure customers experienced measurable performance degradation after several undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer, congested detours and prompting an urgent rerouting and capacity‑rebalancing operation by Microsoft and regional carriers...

OpenAI's announcement that it will build an AI-powered jobs platform and a linked certification program marks a decisive expansion from conversational agents into workforce services — an initiative that could directly challenge Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, reshape hiring economics, and accelerate...

Microsoft appears to be winding down Outlook Lite for Android, with reports saying new installs will be blocked starting October 6, 2025 and existing users steered toward the full Outlook client — a change that reflects a broader push by Microsoft to consolidate mobile and desktop Outlook...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced noticeable performance disruption after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were damaged, forcing traffic onto longer detours and generating higher-than-normal latency for customers whose data traverses the Middle East corridor — Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone entered a period of turbulence this weekend after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were reported cut, producing measurable latency for traffic between Asia, the Middle East and Europe and prompting Azure engineers to reroute and rebalance traffic...

Microsoft is reportedly planning to block fresh installations of Outlook Lite starting in October 2025 as it prepares a broader retirement of the app, forcing users who rely on a lightweight, battery-friendly client to either remain on an aging build or move to the full Outlook for Mobile...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud showed fresh fragility this weekend after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and causing higher-than-normal latency for customers whose traffic traverses the Middle East corridor. Background The global...

Microsoft’s Surface account posted a photo of a Surface Pro this weekend — and the screenshot on the device was unmistakably running iPadOS, complete with the iPad status bar — an embarrassing misstep that has been mercilessly trolled online and has reignited wider criticism about Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s cloud customers were jolted on September 6 when Microsoft confirmed that multiple international subsea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea had been cut, producing measurable latency and service degradation for Azure traffic that transits the Middle East corridor and forcing engineers...

Microsoft warned Azure customers on September 6, 2025 that parts of its global cloud network are experiencing higher-than-normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and...

Microsoft has warned Azure customers they may see higher‑than‑normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and cloud operators reroute and prepare for repairs...

Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...

Steven Spielberg nearly directed a Call of Duty movie — and the story of how that almost-happened illuminates a larger, unavoidable tension at the intersection of blockbuster Hollywood and corporate-owned videogame IP: creative auteurs want the freedom to shape tone and audience, while...

Microsoft’s deal with the General Services Administration (GSA) to offer Microsoft 365 Copilot and broad Azure and Microsoft 365 discounts to federal agencies is one of the most consequential technology procurement moves in recent memory — a governmentwide push that promises major near‑term...

OpenAI’s decision to publish high‑quality, open‑weight language models has suddenly reframed its relationship with Microsoft — shifting what until recently felt like a settled strategic partnership into a contested terrain of contracts, cloud economics, and platform control. The company’s...