Cloud Computing
The latest Cloud Computing coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Nvidia’s $30B Quarter Fuels AI Dominance, But It’s the Trifecta with TSMC and Microsoft That Locks In the Lead
Nvidia just delivered a fiscal quarter for the history books: $30 billion in revenue, a 122% surge from a year ago, fueled by data center sales of $26.3 billion that soared 154%. The numbers,...
Microsoft's Cloud PC Bet Pays Off: Windows 365 Evolves with GPU Support, Zero Trust, and Global Agility
On August 2, 2021, Microsoft officially opened the doors to Windows 365, a new cloud service that delivers a full Windows desktop—apps, data, settings, and all—to any device with a browser or...
How AMD’s 64-Core EPYC Rome and Azure HB VMs Sparked a Cloud HPC Revolution
AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome, didn’t just challenge Intel’s server dominance in 2019—they rewired the economics of cloud computing and high-performance computing,...
Microsoft Azure vs AWS for .NET Devs: 2025 Salary, Skills, and Job Market Reality
Microsoft’s Azure grabs nearly one in four .NET job listings in the enterprise sector, yet Amazon Web Services still commands a 29–30% share of the overall cloud market. For a .NET developer...
Microsoft Retains Covington for Azure-Palestine Surveillance Investigation
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling LLP to lead an urgent external investigation into claims that its Azure cloud platform was used to store and process massive amounts of...
The £9 Billion Question: Can Open Source Save the UK Public Sector from Microsoft Lock-in?
A single procurement deal now ties the UK public sector to Microsoft in a relationship the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) expects will cost roughly £9 billion over five years. That...
Ohio Regulator Forces AI Giants to Foot Grid Upgrade Bill, Upending Cloud Power Economics
Ohio’s utility regulator just threw down a gauntlet that could reshape the economics of AI cloud infrastructure across the country. On July 9, 2025, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio (PUCO)...
Microsoft Execs Reveal Agentic Windows: An OS That Watches, Listens, and Acts For You
Microsoft’s top Windows executives are sketching a future where the operating system doesn’t just respond to clicks and keystrokes—it watches your screen, listens to your voice, learns your...
Microsoft’s Azure Backlog Tops $368 Billion as AI Compute Drives 39% Growth
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform surpassed a $75 billion annualized revenue run rate for the first time, while the company’s remaining performance obligation—contracted future...
Analysts Call Chainlink 'This Cycle's Most Obvious Large-Cap Jackpot' as LINK Breaks $20, Eyes AWS-Scale Valuation
Chainlink just punched through a two-year weekly resistance level, and suddenly the oracle network is being compared to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—not as a metaphor, but...
Python in Excel Now Treats Images as Native Data, Unleashing In-Cell Image Processing
Excel users can now drop an image into a cell and run Python code against it without ever leaving the spreadsheet, thanks to a new feature that treats images as first-class inputs in Microsoft’s...
Windows 12 Vision: Agentic OS That Sees, Hears, and Collaborates via Voice and Screen Awareness
Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s head of Windows, has openly described the next major platform evolution as an ambient, multimodal, and agentic operating system that redefines how we interact with PCs....