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The latest Data Centers coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Verge of Ad-Supported Tiers as Microsoft and AMD Team Up for Next-Gen Hardware
Microsoft is developing a new low-cost tier for Xbox Cloud Gaming that could be funded by advertisements, a move the company’s CFO laid out in stark detail at a recent investor summit. Xbox Chief...
Cloud Hosting Offers Mac Users a Full Windows Desktop for POHODA Accounting Without Local VMs
{ "title": "Cloud Hosting Offers Mac Users a Full Windows Desktop for POHODA Accounting Without Local VMs", "content": "Mac users who depend on the Czech accounting package POHODA have long been...
Microsoft Taps Marvell's LiquidSecurity PCIe HSMs to Lock Down Azure Cloud HSM Infrastructure
Microsoft has selected Marvell's LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to underpin its Azure Cloud HSM service, the companies confirmed on August 18, 2025. The deal cements...
Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 as Nadella Dumps Gates' Software Factory for AI 'Intelligence Engine'
Microsoft is not struggling. It just posted $76.4 billion in quarterly revenue, netted $27.2 billion, and saw its market cap brush past $3.8 trillion. Yet CEO Satya Nadella is cutting roughly 9,000...
Microsoft Arms Azure Cloud HSM with Marvell LiquidSecurity PCIe Cards, Targeting Regulated Workloads
Microsoft is significantly expanding its Azure Cloud HSM service with Marvell’s LiquidSecurity PCIe hardware security modules, a strategic move that embeds cloud‑native, high‑density...
Microsoft Orders External Review Led by Covington & Burling After Azure Mass Surveillance Allegations
Microsoft has commissioned an urgent external legal review after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s signals intelligence unit, 8200, operated a segregated Azure environment to...
Azure Revenue Rockets 39% to $75B Annual Run Rate as Microsoft Cloud Dominates Q4
Microsoft just dropped a bombshell quarterly report that reshapes the cloud landscape. For the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2025, the company posted $76.4 billion in total revenue—an 18%...
Nvidia’s $30B Quarter Fuels AI Dominance, But It’s the Trifecta with TSMC and Microsoft That Locks In the Lead
Nvidia just delivered a fiscal quarter for the history books: $30 billion in revenue, a 122% surge from a year ago, fueled by data center sales of $26.3 billion that soared 154%. The numbers,...
How AMD’s 64-Core EPYC Rome and Azure HB VMs Sparked a Cloud HPC Revolution
AMD’s second-generation EPYC processors, code-named Rome, didn’t just challenge Intel’s server dominance in 2019—they rewired the economics of cloud computing and high-performance computing,...
Microsoft Opens External Investigation into Claims Azure Stored Millions of Intercepted Palestinian Calls
Microsoft has formally commissioned an external investigation after a series of investigative reports alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit, Unit 8200, used Microsoft Azure to...
Microsoft Probes Azure’s Role in Israeli Military Mass Phone Surveillance
Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into how Israel’s elite military surveillance unit, Unit 8200, is using its Azure cloud platform, days after a Guardian investigation revealed the spy...
East US Azure Capacity Exhausted on July 29: Your Playbook for When the Cloud Isn't Infinite
On July 29, 2025, hundreds of Azure customers in the East US region tried to launch virtual machines and got an error they didn't expect: not a configuration glitch or a network timeout, but a flat...