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Microsoft Taps AWS, IBM Veteran Gunawan Susanto to Lead Indonesia Cloud and AI Push
Microsoft has named Gunawan Susanto as its new Country General Manager for Indonesia, effective June 15, 2026, handing the reins of one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic tech markets to a leader...
CIO's Azure AI Playbook: Selective Commitments and Portable GPU Workloads
CIOs navigating the treacherous waters of enterprise AI are receiving a clear message from industry analysts: trust Azure for Microsoft-adjacent workloads and governed pilots, but think twice before...
How to Swap PyMuPDF for Azure Document Intelligence Layout in Enterprise RAG Systems on Windows
Enterprise developers building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems now have a more robust alternative to PyMuPDF for document parsing—Microsoft’s Azure AI Document Intelligence Layout...
Microsoft Copilot Gains Enterprise Edge with NHS Deal, Usage Pricing, and AI Revenue Surge
Microsoft Copilot is not losing ground to rivals. That’s the key finding from a BNP Paribas analysis released this month, which argues that the AI assistant has sharpened its enterprise...
Microsoft and Global Objects Partner to Build Azure-Hosted Generative World Model for Physical AI
Global Objects and Microsoft announced on June 3, 2026, a multi-year strategic collaboration to develop an Azure-hosted, retrieval-grounded generative world model trained on licensed datasets. The...
Microsoft Stock Drops 3.5% on Anthropic IPO, Copilot Profit Doubts
Microsoft shares slid 3.5% on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, erasing most of the gains from the previous week, as a confluence of AI-related developments rattled investors. The drop came after reports...
Analyst: Azure and Copilot Give Microsoft an 8.5% AI Edge Over Magnificent Seven Peers
A Seeking Alpha contributor has singled out Microsoft as the strongest opportunity among the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks, pointing to an 8.5 percent share price gain since late April. The...
MAI-Thinking-1 Debuts at Build 2026 as Microsoft Pushes AI Optionality with Seven In-House Models
Microsoft dropped a bombshell at Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, unveiling MAI-Thinking-1, its first in-house reasoning model, alongside six other MAI models that span coding, image...
Microsoft Build 2026: MAI-Thinking-1 Debuts 35B-Parameter Model Without Distillation
Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote on June 2 to introduce a new family of in-house AI models called MAI. The lineup spans seven models, headlined by MAI-Thinking-1, a 35-billion-active-parameter...
Microsoft Unveils Windows AI Runtime with Offline Models at Build 2026
Microsoft chose the first day of its Build 2026 conference on June 2 in San Francisco to flip the script on PC artificial intelligence. Rather than another cloud-dependent Copilot upgrade, the...
Satya Nadella’s Windows Reset: From OS King to Cloud AI Ecosystem
Satya Nadella took the reins as Microsoft’s third CEO on February 4, 2014, inheriting a tech giant that still printed money from Windows and Office but had become a bystander in the smartphone...
Jessica Hawk’s AI Founder Blueprint: How Azure and Agentic Systems Are Reshaping Startup Strategy
First-time founders must stop treating AI as a bolt-on and start combining it with every layer of their business—from coding to customer mentorship. That’s the core message from Microsoft’s...