Cloud Computing
The latest Cloud Computing coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Azure and Google Cloud Leave AWS Behind as AI Fuels 39% and 32% Growth vs. 17.5%
Amazon Web Services—the profit engine that long powered Amazon’s ambitions—just hit a speed bump that sent its parent company’s stock sliding as much as 8% in after-hours trading. For the...
Microsoft’s AI Permitting Tool Escapes the Garage to Slash Clean Energy Red Tape
A prototype that began life inside a Microsoft hackathon is now a full-fledged commercial workstream, targeting one of the clean energy transition’s most stubborn bottlenecks: the painfully slow,...
Arkane Devs Warn Microsoft's Israeli Military Ties Could Shrink Xbox Audience, Threaten Game Jobs
Arkane Studios' unionized developers issued a stark warning to parent company Microsoft on Tuesday: sever all contracts with the Israeli military or face a consumer boycott that could erode the Xbox...
Hyperscalers to Plow $445B into Data Centers in 2025 as AI Compute Demands Reshape Infrastructure Spending
Global cloud capex is hurtling toward $445 billion in 2025—a staggering 50% year-over-year increase—as Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta bankroll a new generation of AI infrastructure that...
OpenAI Breaks Azure Exclusivity, Welcomes Google Cloud for ChatGPT Workloads
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is no longer tethered to Microsoft Azure alone. An updated sub-processor list confirms that Google Cloud now handles enterprise and API workloads in the United States, Japan, the...
Arkane Union Demands Microsoft Cut Israeli Military Cloud Ties, Citing 'Genocide' Complicity
Unionized workers at Arkane Studios, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind titles like Deathloop and Dishonored, issued a blistering public demand this week: parent company Microsoft must...
Microsoft’s TPM 2.0 Mandate Is Non-Negotiable: Higher Education’s Multi-Million Ransomware Lesson
Microsoft has declared its TPM 2.0 hardware requirement for Windows 11 “non-negotiable,” closing the door on any hopes that the company might lower security standards to ease the transition from...
World-Class AI Talent Can't Overcome Canada's Adoption Gap — Here's What Must Change
Canada topped G7 charts in AI talent concentration growth, with a near 30% year-over-year surge in active professionals, according to a 2023 Deloitte report. The same ecosystem churns out more AI...
GitHub CEO Exits as Microsoft Folds Platform into CoreAI, Heightening Developer Concerns
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive who steered GitHub through its AI-powered renaissance, announced his resignation on August 11, 2025, setting off a seismic restructuring that will dissolve the...
Microsoft Drives GitHub Deeper Into AI Unit After CEO Resigns, Raising Governance Concerns
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and instead of appointing a new leader, Microsoft will fold the code-hosting platform more directly into its CoreAI division, ending the relative...
Microsoft’s Actual FY2024 Earnings: $171B Gross Profit, Not $52B — Here’s What Changes
An automated competitor analysis from Benzinga recently painted a misleading picture of Microsoft’s financial might, understating the company’s gross profit by over $118 billion and its EBITDA by...
Aramco AI Blitz Exposes Carbon Accounting Gap as Ex-Microsoft Staff Demand Transparency
As Saudi Aramco throws a supercomputer fueled by Nvidia GPUs at the problem of finding oil faster and cheaper, a cadre of former Microsoft staff are demanding that the company—and all cloud...