As Microsoft phases out older Exchange Server versions, IT leaders are facing new decisions about how to stay compliant and cost-efficient. Understanding the current licensing landscape for Windows ...

Microsoft has announced a new Deployment Agent for Azure Copilot, which is now rolling out in preview. The company says that it brings a more guided and automated approach to deploying cloud workloads ...

An outage involving Microsoft's Azure has significantly impacted many of the company's products and services, as well as others that rely on the cloud platform. Azure Outage Takes Down 365, Xbox, ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector ...

Microsoft Azure experienced simultaneous outages, disrupting access to websites, apps, and cloud-connected services across industries on Wednesday afternoon. The dual failure triggered widespread ...

Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. With data sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, cloud platforms, and edge ...

Microsoft suffered a relatively brief but certainly inconvenient outage on Thursday. A number of its popular productivity services went down — most notably its Microsoft 365 software, which includes ...

Cloudy Tactics: In another effort to steer Windows customers toward Azure, Microsoft is offering a new tool that converts virtual machines between two formats. The goal is to help organizations stay ...

OpenAI has released its first set of open-weight models since GPT-2, and Microsoft is accelerating developer adoption by launching these models-gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b--on both Azure AI Foundry ...

Microsoft is making it easier to migrate to Azure SQL by taking the grunt work out of schema setup. A new update to Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) introduces a built-in schema migration tool ...

Microsoft has launched two new VM sizes -- E128 and E192 -- in the Azure Esv6 and Edsv6 families, now generally available in select regions as of August 1, 2025. These new instances use the 5th‑Gen ...

We’re excited to announce a new migration capability in Azure Arc to simplify and accelerate SQL Server migration. This new capability, now generally available, is powered by Azure Database Migration ...