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Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...

Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...

Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure. Background The disruption began on...

Microsoft’s Copilot has stopped being an optional curiosity and is rapidly becoming the default AI companion inside the apps people already use to get work done, and that shift matters for businesses deciding whether to bolt AI onto workflows or let it live inside them. Overview Businesses and...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud experienced measurable performance degradation after multiple undersea fiber‑optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours and producing higher‑than‑normal latency for customers whose data traversed the affected Middle East corridor. Background...

Infobip’s expanded integration with Microsoft Azure Communication Services (ACS) opens native global SMS delivery to enterprises in more than 100 additional countries, promising to simplify carrier management, strengthen compliance workflows, and scale mission-critical messaging across...

Infobip’s expanded integration with Microsoft Azure Communication Services (ACS) makes carrier-grade SMS — including two‑way messaging and local number provisioning — available to Azure customers in more than 100 additional countries, surfacing Infobip‑managed numbers and delivery routes...

Infobip’s integration into Microsoft’s new Messaging Connect program significantly expands Azure Communication Services’ (ACS) global SMS footprint, making two‑way SMS available in more than 100 additional countries while preserving the native Azure developer experience and observability model...

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...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

Microsoft’s internal IT organization has completed one of the most ambitious cloud migrations in corporate history — moving virtually all employee-facing systems into Azure and reshaping how the company thinks about operations, security, and engineering at scale. The transition, driven by...

Azure’s argument is stark but simple: it’s no longer a question of whether teams can build AI agents—the real battle is how quickly and reliably they can move from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment. Background The pace of agent development has accelerated from lab experiments to...

ChatGPT users around the world woke up to error messages and stalled replies as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot suffered a partial outage that left many unable to view responses in the web interface — an incident that again raises hard questions about reliability, vendor lock-in, and how to architect...

Title: A practical guide to the multicloud personalities of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — what IT leaders should know in 2025 Lead The three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide the raw building blocks enterprises expect: VMs...

The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...

Screenvision Media’s technology team has completed a rapid, strategic modernization of its core systems by moving to a multi‑cloud environment built on Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), a migration executed by long‑time partner Cintra over a concentrated 12‑week window and...

A seemingly ordinary sports photo page titled “Falcons Cowboys Football” paired with an obituary excerpt for Odessa Dillard Foddrell, 84, who died on August 12, 2025 in Conover, North Carolina, reads like a glitch in the matrix—but it’s also a snapshot of how fragile modern, template-driven news...

Microsoft suffered another Microsoft 365 service disruption this week when Office.com and access to Copilot were knocked offline for many North American users after a configuration change the company later rolled back, restoring service after several hours of disruption. Background The incident...

Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools, and Microsoft’s new Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry makes that dual imperative the organizing principle for enterprise-grade agentic AI. Background / Overview The Agent...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration...