The stock is within 2% of its record close. Is cloud growth in the mid-40s enough to send it past?

As 2025 got underway, Microsoft hinted at the directions Azure would take throughout the year with AI plans, partnerships, and hyper-cloud competition in focus. Early in January, executives touted the ...

When my friend and Directions on Microsoft‘s editor-in-chief Mary Jo Foley wrote in late May that Azure Linux 4.0 would be available for bare-metal servers and virtual machines (VMs), I thought, “I’m ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s 2026 lifecycle schedule includes major support deadlines for Windows, Office, SQL Server, SharePoint, and Azure services. Microsoft will end support or servicing for dozens of Windows, ...

Microsoft Corp. MSFT could see additional upside from Azure pricing over time, even as recent cloud growth has largely been driven by capacity expansion and efficiency gains, according to BNP Paribas ...

Microsoft will begin reporting Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, providing more clarity about its business that competes with Amazon Web Services. The company is trimming the number of ...

Microsoft Corporation delivered robust Q4 results, with revenue up 18% to $90B and non-GAAP EPS up 23% to $4.74, exceeding expectations. Azure's acceleration to 43% growth, with management guiding for ...

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far. I blinked. Backstage, Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation’s ...

Editor's note, May 19th 2026: Following publication, CERT/CC contacted BleepingComputer to clarify its handling of this report. CERT/CC did not independently validate or agree that the reported issue ...

Today, October 3, 2026, I attended the "Japan Azure User Group 16th Anniversary Event," the annual event for JAZUG (Japan ...