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Defence Ran ‘Mission-Critical’ Apps on U.S. Cloud, Shelling Out $1.3B Since 2021
Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services from American tech giants since 2021, newly tabled government documents reveal. The Department of National Defence (DND) acknowledged that some...
TierPoint’s Microsoft Private Cloud Badge: What It Means for Your Azure Local Strategy
TierPoint’s newly minted Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud is more than a badge—it’s a structural signal that Microsoft’s hybrid cloud play is maturing, and that large...
Microsoft's Copilot Study Exposes AI's Grip on White-Collar Tasks — and Young Workers Are Paying the Price
Windows Central’s recent poll asking readers whether AI will jeopardize their careers struck a nerve, tapping into a raw, existential anxiety. But behind the poll’s emotional pull lies a rapidly...
India's Digital Sovereignty Plan: Weaning Off Windows and Hyperscalers by 2030
The Nayara Energy incident laid bare a chilling reality: a sanctions compliance decision by a global cloud vendor can abruptly disrupt operations at a major Indian corporation, cutting off access to...
India’s Sovereign Cloud Race Heats Up as TCS and C-DAC Announce OpenStack Alliance
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) have inked a Memorandum of Understanding to build India’s sovereign cloud – a domestic,...
OpenAI and Nvidia Bet Billions on UK Data Centers, Eye 1GW India Hub
The global AI infrastructure race entered a new chapter this week as OpenAI and Nvidia reportedly prepare to announce a multi-billion-dollar data center investment in the United Kingdom, timed to...
Arrests, Firings, and an External Review: Inside Microsoft’s Labor Clash Over Cloud Ethics
On August 26, a small group of Microsoft workers livestreamed themselves entering the Redmond office of President Brad Smith, reading a summons and refusing to leave. The sit-in, broadcast across...
Microsoft Mandates Three-Day Office Return by 2026, Shuttering Employee Speech Channels
Microsoft is compelling thousands of its employees back to their desks for a minimum of three days a week by the end of February 2026, a stark shift from its earlier hybrid work embrace that has been...
Microsoft's $13B AI Run-Rate Masks Windows 11's Rocky Transition to an AI Platform
Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated to 39% growth in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2025, pushing the company’s annualized AI revenue run-rate past $13 billion—a 175% year-over-year...
Microsoft Azure and AI Tool Lavender: The Cloud Backbone of Israel’s Gaza Targeting Exposed
Israeli military intelligence Unit 8200 utilized a dedicated, segregated Microsoft Azure environment to process and store massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications, directly feeding...
Inside Microsoft’s 2025 Governance Crisis: Employee Arrests, Azure Surveillance Claims, and Investor Risk
On a late August day in 2025, employees from Microsoft’s own ranks stormed the office of President Brad Smith, refusing to leave until their demands were met. Police were called, arrests made, and...
Microsoft's CLOUD Act Confession: Your EU Data Isn't Truly Safe from U.S. Prying Eyes
Microsoft's France officials told a Senate committee that they "cannot guarantee" French citizens’ data would never be transferred to U.S. authorities without French agreement. The June 2025...