The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in… Read More
Amazon took a swipe at Microsoft’s cloud computing technology performance this week, calling out the company’s “spotty operational performance during the COVID-19 crisis.” The dig was part of the ongoing… Read More
UPDATE: Microsoft posts $35B in revenue, up 15%, sees ‘minimal net impact’ from COVID-19 in quarter Will problems in the Windows PC and server supply chain drag Microsoft down? Or… Read More
Update, March 31: Microsoft clarified this statistic, noting that the 775% increase was specifically an increase in Teams calling and meeting monthly users in a one month period in Italy. … Read More
Could Amazon and Microsoft end up sharing the Pentagon’s coveted $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract? That’s the likely scenario to play out in light of recent legal developments, according… Read More
Microsoft posted revenue of $36.9 billion for the December quarter, up 14%, and surpassed Wall Street’s expectations with profits of $11.6 billion and earnings per share of $1.51. The stronger-than-expected… Read More
Microsoft is poised to test a new millimeter-wave body scanner at four locations, according to two filings made with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over the past weeks. The device… Read More
A newly unsealed court document reveals more details about Amazon’s strategy to get the Defense Department to overturn its award of a major cloud contract to rival Microsoft. The U.S.… Read More
Amazon Web Services will be able to tout some of the biggest numbers in the booming cloud industry at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. AWS is… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud-based platform for data-driven farming, Azure FarmBeats, had its official coming-out party this week at the company’s annual Ignite conference for developers, but Steve Mantle has already been using… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today took the wraps off Azure Quantum, a full-stack, cloud-based approach to quantum computing that he said would play well with traditional computational architectures. “With all… Read More
Is the future of digital storage … glass? Microsoft showed off the latest proof of concept for “Project Silica” at the company’s Ignite conference in Orlando on Monday. Microsoft Research… Read More
Microsoft has long made hybrid technologies a core part of its Azure platform, letting customers run cloud technologies on their own servers in addition to the public cloud, but the… Read More
Microsoft’s cloud division continues to boost its balance sheet as the tech giant beat expectations for its fiscal first quarter. The Redmond, Wash. company reported $33.1 billion in revenue, up… Read More
Jamie Dimon, the JPMorgan Chase CEO and chairman, will visit Seattle on Wednesday, which happens to be a key date in the financial services giant’s history with the city. Eleven… Read More
Skytap today announced a partnership with Microsoft Azure as the company continues its shift to becoming a capability within public cloud providers. Founded 12 years ago, Skytap helps companies migrate… Read More
Computer scientists have tried using artificial intelligence to write poetry and compose music, with mixed results. But have they tried using it to make whisky? We now know that they… Read More
Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity, a London-based venture that has become a key player behind a popular open-source implementation of the Java software development platform, AdoptOpenJDK. A couple decades ago,… Read More
— August plays host to a number of gaming-related events in the Seattle area, with the first ones happening next weekend. On Aug. 17 and 18, the Pacific Science Center’s Curiosity… Read More
Microsoft, which built its business on PC software like Windows and Office, has reached a tipping point in the cloud. For the first time, Microsoft’s cloud services generated as much… Read More
A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data. The new Azure Data… Read More
Microsoft and Providence St. Joseph Health announced a new partnership Monday designed to bring the healthcare institution’s vast clinical data and the software giant’s artificial intelligence and cloud capabilities together.… Read More
When David Aronchick returned to Microsoft last fall, I suspect that many folks there did a little happy dance. A Dartmouth grad with undergrad degrees in psychology and chemistry, Aronchick… Read More
Microsoft is expanding its healthcare offerings with three new tools that bring its cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities into hospitals through team collaboration, bots and health record sharing. The new products… Read More
Startups were key to the early success of Amazon Web Services and most still favor the platform for cloud infrastructure. Microsoft thinks it has a strategy to win them over.… Read More
The cloud will increasingly enable you to play the game of your choice on any device of your choice. So suggested Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft’s gaming division, at Barclays… Read More
It’s there and back again for Seattle tech veteran David Aronchick, who is returning to Microsoft after more than a decade. Aronchick is taking on the intriguing title of head of… Read More
The next PowerPoint presentation you see may have live captions or subtitles, as Microsoft rolls out a real-time voice translation feature to millions of subscribers. Think of it as an… Read More
For the second time in two weeks, Microsoft Azure’s multi-factor authentication system is down. ZDNet on Tuesday noted the outage, which prevents some users from logging into their Office 365 accounts. We're investigating… Read More
Several years ago, former football player Steve Gleason came to Microsoft with a challenge: develop technology to ease the effects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological disease that… Read More