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Microsoft Staff Erect Campus Tent Encampment Demanding End to Azure Military Contracts
Microsoft employees pitched tents on the company’s Redmond campus Thursday, launching a 24-hour protest encampment that escalates a year-long internal battle over cloud contracts with Israeli...
Microsoft Engages Covington & Burling for External Review of Azure’s Role in Alleged Palestinian Surveillance
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling and an independent technical consultancy to expand an external review into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit...
Azure Modernization: Up to 400% ROI and 6-Month Payback for Scaling Agentic AI
Organizations that pair a modern cloud core with agentic AI are already pulling ahead, and new research puts hard numbers behind the shift: cloud modernization on Microsoft Azure can deliver up to...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity FIPS 140-3 Level 3 PCIe HSMs to Power Azure Cloud HSM
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules to anchor its Azure Cloud HSM service, extending a years-long collaboration that already underpins Azure Key Vault...
UAE Trains One Million Prompters and AI Talents With Microsoft as Post-Oil Pivot Accelerates
The United Arab Emirates is staking its post-oil future on a workforce that can talk to machines. By 2027, the nation aims to have trained one million people in AI prompt engineering and equipped a...
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...
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...
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...
NTT DATA’s Global Microsoft Cloud Unit Targets Production AI as Microsoft Builds ‘Tenant Copilot’ and ‘Agent Factory’
NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global Microsoft Cloud business unit on August 7, 2025, signals a pivotal moment in the race to move enterprise AI from proof-of-concept to production-grade,...
NTT DATA’s New Microsoft Cloud Unit Targets 100 Enterprise AI Deals in 90 Days
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NTT DATA Consolidates Microsoft Cloud Practice into Single Global AI Unit Led by Aishwarya Singh
NTT DATA has launched a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, consolidating its Azure-focused delivery, engineering, and consulting capabilities under one roof. The move, announced this...
NTT DATA Forges Dedicated Microsoft Cloud Unit to Industrialize Agentic AI at Scale
NTT DATA has drawn a line in the sand with the creation of a global business unit laser-focused on the Microsoft Cloud, an abrupt move that consolidates thousands of certified engineers, a library of...