CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2025

At a press conference held at Microsoft Koreas Gwanghwamun office, Oh Seong-mi, head of the business division, highlighted the top findings of Microsofts 2025 Work Trend Index, including the companys prediction that corporate organizational charts will rapidly change in the coming years, centering on AI agents.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Microsoft is warning IT administrators that their Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (DC) may lose network connectivity after they are restarted. Microsoft says it is working on a fix, which will be provided in an upcoming release. There is as yet no patch. Its a simple one: restart the network adapter.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. When coupled with our prior channel checks, it points to a potential oversupply position for Microsoft.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

NVIDIA + Microsoft: Partnering for AI transformation at scale Given the pace of change, FSI companies need to lean into the right partnerships and resources to enable innovation. Read more from NVIDIA and Microsoft [link]

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. Drop caused by AI investments: Microsoft The large percentage drops are primarily due to the fact that Microsoft, like all of the major hyperscalers, invested massively in generative AI.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Veeam recently announced a multi-faceted expansion of its partnership with Microsoft. The first facet is that Microsoft is making an equity investment in Veeam. Also, as part of the partnership, Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services and machine learning (ML) capabilities into its data resilience platform, Veeam Data Cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Microsoft Power BI users will soon face hefty price increases of anywhere from 25% to 40%. This is not just Microsoft I hear from many clients who are due for renewals that their BI vendors are increasing prices, Forrester VP and principal analyst Boris Evelson told CIO. In some cases, very significantly. E5 costs $54.75

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Network World

JUNE 23, 2025

Members include major tech-industry players such as AMD, Intel, Broadcom, Arista, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, and HPE. Oracle lags the cloud leaders AWS and Microsoft and only has about 3% of the public cloud market. AMD’s announcement came just days after the UEC published its 1.0

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Microsoft Ignite announcements The news announced at Microsoft Ignite was understandably centered around Microsoft products as related to Dell AI Factory, the company’s AI initiative covering products and services. The software is available now, while the GPU update will be available by the end of the year.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Su attributed the recent revenue gains to orders from clients like Microsoft and Meta, with the latter now adopting AMD’s MI300X GPUs for internal workloads. Major clients like Microsoft and Meta too expanded their use of MI300X GPUs , with Microsoft using them for Copilot services and Meta deploying them for Llama models.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 13, 2025

Jay Parikh will lead the new CoreAI Platform and Tools division at Microsoft. Microsoft Photo) Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta), that will be responsible for building fundamental AI technologies and tools for the company and its customers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. Microsoft is probably the most interesting addition to the group, because its emphasis has been on GPUs and its own custom Arm project. But the two aren’t going alone.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. Microsoft Image) In June, the Redmond, Wash.-based

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Microsoft’s new “Majorana 1” processor (pronounced my-or-ana ) is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. Microsofts approach differs from Google, IBM, and others that have been pouring their efforts into using large numbers of existing quantum processors to overcome errors.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Last month, Microsoft and Constellation Energy agreed to revive a unit at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant, the site of the worst US nuclear accident. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers. In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Microsoft and Quantinuum announce 12 logical qubits Also in September, Microsoft announced that it partnered with Quantinuum to create 12 logical qubits, which, according to Krysta Svore, Microsofts vice president of advanced quantum development, was, at the time, the most logical qubits on record.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added new zero-trust capabilities and tapped Microsoft and Palo Alto Networks to bolster its enterprise security services. Specifically, the company has partnered with Microsoft to employ its Entra identity and access management package that provides secure access to remote resources.

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Network World

JULY 11, 2025

Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to surpass a $4 trillion market capitalization value, 13 months after surpassing the $3 trillion mark and making it the world’s most valuable company ahead of Apple and Microsoft. At the time of Nvidia reaching the record-breaking market cap on July 9, Microsoft was in second place with a $3.7

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella directed the company’s security team to boost a bounty program for AI and cloud bugs during one of Microsoft’s weekly Secure Future Initiative meetings. It’s part of a new initiative and planned 2025 hacking event in Redmond that Microsoft is calling the Zero Day Quest.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2025

Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at a special event Wednesday morning in Seattle announcing the company’s new Microsoft Elevate skilling initiative. The announcement comes a week after Microsoft confirmed it would cut another 4% of its workforce — about 9,000 jobs globally — as part of a broader efficiency push.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In a panel session, Gerald de Grace, cloud architect and technical product manager at Microsoft, highlighted the immense scale of the challenge, noting that the company is looking at clusters with over 300,000 GPUs. The panel also looked at the impact of InfiniBand vs Ethernet.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 26, 2024

” Benioff is almost as strong in his negative sentiments toward Microsoft’s Copilot. He calls Copilot the second coming of Microsoft’s much-maligned “Clippy” Office assistant, and asserts that the Redmond company is giving AI a bad name by disappointing customers with underwhelming results and lax security.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For its enterprise security offerings, NTT Data partners with Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft and others to provide services including firewalls, endpoint security, and cloud application protection. NTT Data offers a wide range of IT services, and its competitors include Accenture, Infosys, IBM and Tata.

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Network World

MAY 29, 2025

Other new features of DNS Defense include: SaaS API data loss prevention: Monitors and protects sensitive data within cloud applications like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Box by scanning for data exposure and enforcing compliance policies. Cloud malware detection: Automatically scans files stored in cloud services (e.g.,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Indeed, a recent survey shows nearly a quarter (23%) of organizations desire to improve the protection of their SaaS data — including for platforms like Microsoft 365. Here is where industry leaders like Veeam step in.

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Network World

JUNE 9, 2025

AWS has reduced the prices of some of its EC2 Nvidia GPU-accelerated instances to attract more AI workloads while competing with rivals, such as Microsoft and Google, as demand for GPUs and the cost of securing them continues to grow. AWS offers other EC2 instances for hyper-computing in the form of P2, P3, P6, G, and G5g series.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

There is one big quantum computing player thats missing from the list Microsoft. Thats because Microsoft, as well as another quantum computing company, PsiQuantum, were already in the program.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

These issues have reportedly led to design changes, meaning delays in shipping product and raising concern that its biggest customers, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, will be able to deploy Blackwell servers according to their schedules.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 25, 2025

But the boom didn’t last long, as Amazon along with Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other prominent enterprises collectively laid off more than 100,000 employees in 2022 to re-adjust to a world emerging from the pandemic. In May, Microsoft announced 2,000 layoffs , with 40% of the impacted workers being software engineers.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 30, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) Working on Aurora , Microsoft’s AI foundation model of the Earth’s atmosphere, Cristian Bodnar and Jayesh Gupta could see that large scale machine learning was primed to drive a sea change in weather forecasting. “Everybody wants more accurate weather forecasts,” Gupta said.

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GeekWire

APRIL 4, 2025

Leaders from throughout Microsoft’s history shared their thoughts about the company’s impact. Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.] Whats the significance of Microsoft in modern business and tech history?

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