Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Despite initiating a probe into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Microsoft has added the startups latest reasoning model R1, to its model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. The Microsoft blog noted that its customers would soon be able to use distilled flavors of the R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. In addition, Linux head developer Linus Torvalds and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney will also have input. Intel and AMD working together to define functions and instructions is long overdue,” he told me.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also claiming to have the world’s most reliable quantum computing platform. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction.

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MARCH 19, 2025

In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just months earlier. Throughout late 2024, Microsoft continued to expand its agentic offerings with purpose-built agents for specific use cases.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is laying off 4% of its global workforce, around 1,000 employees, as it pivots resources to developing AI-focused chips. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsofts AI strategy. IDC sees the move likely shifting many Microsoft offerings around in terms of internal structure.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

billion in 2026 though the top use case for the next couple of years will remain research and development in quantum computing. This means that they have developed an application that shows an advantage over a classical approach though not necessarily one that is fully rolled out and commercially viable at scale.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2025

Chris Young, Microsoft executive vice president of business development, strategy, and ventures, at the GeekWire Summit in 2021. However, Microsoft hinted that Young has something new in the works. His total compensation for 2024 was $12 million, including salary and stock, according to Microsoft’s proxy.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed that it was laying off staffers from its Azure unit but did not provide an accurate number of employees affected. We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. Earlier this year, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company is on track to invest nearly $80 billion to build out AI-enabled data centers this fiscal year.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

To overcome these challenges, Neudesic helps organisations through its expertise, cutting-edge technology, and strong partnerships with Microsoft, having won the Microsoft Partner of the Year award over 20 times. We are also back by IBM and an awarded Microsoft partner.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Now it has come out with AI blueprints, essentially pre-built templates that give developers a jump start on creating AI systems. But developers will want to customize and modify them, so they can make the necessary changes that they need. The vendor recently issued designs for AI factories after hyping up the idea for several months.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

ZT designs, manufactures, integrates, and deploys servers for hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, although the manufacturing business is expected to be sold off this year, with AMD saying that it is in talks with multiple potential strategic partners to sell the business. billion in August of last year.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ECCO, launched last November as part of an anti-competition settlement with Microsoft agreed to in July 2024, was also given a mandate on its formation to monitor other large software firms, including Broadcom/VMware, and issue a report on its findings. This may speed up Broadcoms course of action at some point.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

One such example is Microsofts global water use soared by 34% while it was developing its initial AI tools, according to reports , and a data center cluster in Iowa used 6% of the districts water supply in one month during the training of OpenAIs GPT-4. I believe some data center operators just bowed out, said Howard.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

In addition, Nokia is developing quantum-safe technology for both IP and optical networks to ensure secure data transmission between data centers. “We Kyndryl also offers a variety of other data center connectivity services from partners including Cisco, Red Hat, Microsoft, Dell, HPE and NetApp.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

CyberSeek is a data analysis and aggregation tool powered by a collaboration among Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data and analytics; NICE, a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology focused on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce development; and IT certification and training group CompTIA.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Security researchers from AppOmni have uncovered millions of business records that are accessible to anyone through low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

More than $1 trillion was wiped off US technology stocks with frontier model developers such as OpenAI, Alphabet, and Meta caught off guard by this Chinese startup. Despite controversy about the models development, DeepSeek has greatly accelerated the commoditization of AI models.

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JULY 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The first industries to use it will probably be those developing new materials, new chemical processes, or in molecular biology, Painter said. The AWS announcement comes just one week after Microsoft revealed its own quantum breakthrough, the Majorana 1 chip, intensifying the race among tech giants to deliver quantum computing at scale.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Through the integration with Azure, it can provide comprehensive visibility into the performance of applications running on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Some of that integration work has already begun.

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Network World

JULY 16, 2024

The development comes just days after CISPE settled with Microsoft and withdrew the complaint it had filed in November 2022 with the European Commission, the EU’s antitrust authority. CISPE, Microsoft and AWS, also failed to respond to a reporter’s questions.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

The incident prompted some CIOs to rethink their dependence on cloud infrastructure, and it caused Microsoft to focus more on kernel-level access for other software packages. Meanwhile, Delta Airlines filed a $500 million lawsuit against CrowdStrike and Microsoft and reconsidered its use of Microsoft products.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Despite mixed early returns , the outcome appears evident: Generative AI coding assistants will remake how software development teams are assembled, with QA and junior developer jobs at risk. AI will handle the rest of the software development roles, including security and compliance reviews, he predicts. “At

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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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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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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

For starters, the AWS disclosure confirms that hyperscalers are developing more and more of their own custom silicon , according to Patrick Moorhead, CEO of Moor Insights & Strategies. So, while Graviton may not be for sale to anyone outside of Amazon, AWS is getting a major return on its investment.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2024

She has also worked at Microsoft, Google — and also at Salesforce, much earlier in her career. SalesforceIQ, a software development company he co-founded in 2015, was acquired by Salesforce in 2018, while his next venture, low-code platform vendor Airkit, was swallowed up by Salesforce in October 2023.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Between DeepSeek topping app store downloads, Wiz discovering a pretty basic developer error by the team behind DeepSeek, Googles report on adversarial misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and Microsofts recent release of Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products […]

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GeekWire

MARCH 9, 2025

Microsofts new Majorana 1 processor is the first quantum chip powered by a topological core based on a new class of materials. The recent announcements from AWS, Google, and Microsoft make clear that the computing power that can be directed to break encryption is about increase by an order of magnitude weve never seen before.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

What AI brings to Aviz A key focus for Aviz Networks has been the development of its Network Copilot AI assistant, which takes a vendor-agnostic approach to network operations and management.

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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

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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DECEMBER 3, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows. Amazon Q is the company’s flagship AI application for developers and businesses, originally announced here a year ago.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At its Microsoft Ignite 2024 show in Chicago this week, Microsoft and industry partner experts showed off the power of small language models (SLMs) with a new set of fine-tuned, pre-trained AI models using industry-specific data. The company notes that customers can also use the models to configure agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

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