Microsoft has sold off the most among mega-cap tech in 2026 as investors question near-term ROIC, creating an attractive entry for long-term holders. Agentic AI is a major catalyst, with MSFT’s ...

Stifel believes that heavy AI spending and rising competition could weigh on Microsoft 's growth. The investment firm downgraded the "Magnificent Seven" technology titan to a hold rating from buy.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, ...

Despite Amazon (AMZN) underperforming Microsoft (MSFT) last year, their share performance has diverged since November 2025, when Amazon started to outperform Microsoft, as can be seen below. The ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...

Microsoft and Linux are adding AI and Rust to their pipelines. Microsoft is leaning much harder into AI development than Linux. Both are expanding Rust, but neither OS will be fully Rust soon.

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Ludi Akue discusses how the tech sector’s ...

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

Azure outage affected global industries, including airlines and airports Microsoft 365 services impacted by Azure configuration change Outage follows recent Amazon AWS disruption, highlighting tech ...

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