News - Microsoft
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Microsoft defends working with the US military: "They will have access to the best technology that we create"
Following internal disagreement over its efforts to win the JEDI cloud contract
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos: Tech companies must work with the military, "even when it's unpopular"
“We are going to continue to support the DoD and I think we should”
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Microsoft employees' open letter protests against JEDI contract, says Azure should not be used for "waging war"
"This is a secretive $10 billion project with the ambition of building “a more lethal” military force overseen by the Trump Administration"
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Microsoft’s xCloud puts Xbox in the data center; game streaming trials start in 2019
Testing underway in Quincy, Washington
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Microsoft publishes preliminary analysis of major cloud outage
High energy storms, damaged servers and incorrect auto-scale configurations
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After the Azure outage, Microsoft update hits Skype, Office 365 users
Microsoft has a terrible week
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Microsoft wants to deploy 72 gensets in Quincy, WA
The plan to eliminate diesel generators from the data center campus hasn’t worked out
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Google Cloud growth continues as company increases data center spend
And Domino’s Pizza, SoundCloud and Target all join Google’s service
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Walmart turns to Microsoft for cloud services over Amazon rivalry
The enemy of your enemy is your friend
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Synergy: AWS dominates the public cloud market across the world
Amazon’s cloud division leads the way, followed by the usual suspects, Microsoft and Google
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Microsoft to open two cloud regions in Norway
One in Oslo and another in Stavanger
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CeBIT 2018: Huawei announces hybrid cloud solution based on Azure Stack
Microsoft teams up with Chinese giant at CeBIT
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Microsoft deploys underwater data center near Orkney
A new test to revolutionize - and submerge - the data center as part of Project Natick
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Pentagon delays RFP for massive, controversial JEDI cloud contract
Plus Oracle successfully kills a rival’s cloud deal
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Microsoft to continue providing cloud services to the US intelligence agencies
Renewed and expanded contract brings more Azure to the CIA, NSA
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Microsoft previews FPGA-based machine learning service for Azure
And will offer edge deployments of its ‘Project Brainwave’ servers
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Fuel-cell system pitched to replace diesel gensets
PowiDian shows off a new MobHyl unit
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Microsoft plans $5bn IoT push
Commits to invest the sum over the next four years.
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Microsoft, DoJ submit motions to drop Irish email case
As the CLOUD Act made the lawsuit moot
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Microsoft brings Canberra cloud region online
To serve government agencies and critical infrastructure providers
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CBRE: Data center investments totaled $20bn in 2017
Largely driven by major cloud providers
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Microsoft: Female staff lodged 238 discrimination complaints between 2010 and 2016
However most gender-related complaints were considered baseless by the company’s investigative team
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Report: Microsoft to launch Azure regions in Germany, Switzerland and the UAE
’Microsoft Cloud Deutschland’ project with T-Systems doesn’t seem to have worked out