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Microsoft remains massively profitable, investors await AI payoff

Everyone loves Copilot, execs claim – and hope they can say the same for Copilot Plus PCs

Software31 Jul 2024 | 14

Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage

Shut the Front Door!

PaaS + IaaS30 Jul 2024 | 15

Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble

Updated Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond?

Networks30 Jul 2024 | 66

Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer?

New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends

VMware Explore22 Jul 2024 | 6

Azure VMs ruined by CrowdStrike patchpocalypse? Microsoft has recovery tips

Updated Have you tried turning it off and on again, like, a bunch?

PaaS + IaaS19 Jul 2024 | 65

Microsoft 365 remains 'degraded' as Azure outage resolved

Updated Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble

Off-Prem19 Jul 2024 | 66

Microsoft could be about to write a fat check to stave off cloud antitrust complaint

'No agreement has been reached,' Euro cloud lobby insists

PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2024 | 20

VMware by Broadcom has a licensing portability win with Microsoft

If only customers could find their keys after support portal migration

Virtualization03 Jun 2024 | 12

Microsoft gives Windows admins a break and MFA a hard push

Updates now optional, but Azure security is not

Software23 May 2024 | 5

Microsoft builds $3.3B cloud campus on Foxconn's failed Wisconsin LCD plant plot

A Pleasant spot to Mount an AI push

AI + ML08 May 2024 | 9

Spanish startups say 'no más' to Microsoft cloud dominance

Updated Group alleges anticompetitive behavior

PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 4

Microsoft continues multibillion-dollar cloud and AI sprinkle in Malaysia

Satya reaches once more into his wallet

AI + ML02 May 2024 | 2

Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines

For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations

AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5

Cloud Software Group and Microsoft pledge another eight years of co-opetition

Consortium will spend $1.65 billion on Azure, 365 – and of course some AI

Software08 Apr 2024 | 1

UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position

Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99

Microsoft slammed for lax security that led to China's cyber-raid on Exchange Online

CISA calls for 'fundamental, security-focused reforms' to happen ASAP, delaying work on other software

Security03 Apr 2024 | 39

French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies

Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback

PaaS + IaaS02 Apr 2024 | 6

Microsoft decides it's done with Azure egress ransoms

Cloud exit toll booth bypass built by EU regulators

Off-Prem13 Mar 2024 | 14

Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters

Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds

PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13

Microsoft retires Azure IoT Central retirement announcement

And fails to clear up end-of-life debacle

Networks21 Feb 2024 | 8

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

Exclusive After March, devs won’t be able to create new application resources, in 2027 the system will be shut down

Edge + IoT15 Feb 2024 | 24

Microsoft brings its cloudy virtual desktops on-prem to AzureStack HCI

Just in time to cash in on VMware and Citrix uncertainty

Virtualization06 Feb 2024 | 4

Oracle database deal in Azure comes with a health warning from licensing experts

Updated Five months after cloud love-in, critics worry about costs of deploying Oracle hardware and DBs in Microsoft’s cloud

Databases05 Feb 2024 | 9

Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex

Microsoft named – again – by EU trade groups seeking to level the playing field

PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2024 | 11

Tesco techies and Azure jockeys hit the floor during weekend of outages

Every little helps. Especially testing and talking to customers

PaaS + IaaS22 Jan 2024 | 3

Not even LinkedIn is that keen on Microsoft's cloud: Shift to Azure abandoned

Software cons reportedly outweighed public-cloud pros

Systems14 Dec 2023 | 44

AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms

World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights

PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8

Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license

The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS

OSes28 Nov 2023 | 22

Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market

Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition

Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2

Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure

'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types

Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 6

Microsoft likens MFA to 1960s seatbelts, buckles admins in yet keeps eject button

Admins have 90 days to opt out before MFA is deployed automatically

Security07 Nov 2023 | 30

AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types

Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI

PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2

Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe

Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes

PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16

Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database

But only if you're ready to cozy up in Azure's abode

Databases10 Oct 2023 |

Amazon, Microsoft under UK regulator's eye as cloud market probe confirmed

Egress fees, interoperability and licensing discounts all in the crosshairs

PaaS + IaaS05 Oct 2023 | 5

Microsoft attempts to woo governments with Cloud for Sovereignty preview

Sovereignty = you’ll run on Azure and you’ll be told when our engineers access your resources

PaaS + IaaS04 Oct 2023 | 5

Microsoft kills classic Azure DaaS, because it isn't really Azure

Users get three-year deprecation and migration warning

On-Prem03 Oct 2023 | 11

Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy

Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap'

Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35

Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure

At least it was the weekend

PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3

Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that

Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs

Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7

Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage

Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind

Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32

Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'

Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers

PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6

Microsoft places huge cap-ex bets on datacenters for cloud and AI

CFO says paying customers expected to flood in from 2024

AI + ML28 Jul 2023 | 5

AI mentioned 175 times during Microsoft's Q4 earnings call

Are you sure that's an exec on the line? Also, smart move distracting folks from revenue growth slowdown, profit slide

AI + ML26 Jul 2023 | 2

Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business

Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies

Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6

AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market

China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei

PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2

Microsoft 'fesses to code blunder in Azure Container Apps

Misconfiguration led to hours of pain for engineers as bootstrap service caught in a loop

Sysadmin Month18 Jul 2023 | 14

Goodbye Azure AD, Entra the drag on your time and money

Opinion Relic of the Ballmer years, we shall not see such marketing nonsense again… oh, hang on

Sysadmin Month17 Jul 2023 | 51

Microsoft's security roadmap: Protect secrets in Azure DevOps

You can’t steal what you can’t access ... we hope

Sysadmin Month16 Jul 2023 | 2

Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users

Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials?

Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |

Teradata introduces LLMs to predictive analytics

But the outcome is far from certain

Sysadmin Month14 Jul 2023 | 4

Microsoft whips up unrest after revealing Azure AD name change

Ditching it after a decade? Devs warn of the hours to correct documentation and chaos it'll cause

Sysadmin Month12 Jul 2023 | 130

Microsoft's Azure West Europe region blew away in freak summer storm

Network issues caused by nature's hilarious prank

PaaS + IaaS10 Jul 2023 | 15

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

Updated Apparently you're all dying to do this?

SaaS22 Jun 2023 | 22

Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report

PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6

Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem

Opinion If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts

Software12 Jun 2023 | 80