Microsoft’s Xbox cloud ambitions appear to be entering a new phase: executives are publicly acknowledging that many subscribers use Xbox Cloud Gaming primarily for streaming, and Microsoft is actively exploring a lower-cost, cloud-only entry point that would decouple xCloud access from the full...
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xAI’s Grok 4 — the company’s most advanced reasoning model — is now open to free-tier users worldwide, albeit with limits, feature restrictions, and a clear commercial tug-of-war shaping how, when, and for whom the model will actually be useful. The move, announced on xAI’s channels and widely...
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Summary of "Azure Event Hubs Geo-Replication Reaches General Availability" (InfoQ, July 2025):
Microsoft has announced the General Availability (GA) of Geo-replication for Azure Event Hubs, now offered in both Premium and Dedicated tiers. This advancement brings enterprise-grade redundancy and...
Today we are exciting to announce the release of the Windows Azure AppFabric June CTP which includes capabilities that make it easy for developers to build, deploy, manage and monitor multi-tier applications across web, business logic and database tiers as a single logical entity on the Windows...