A London-based tribunal recently ruled that Microsoft must face a class-action lawsuit alleging the tech giant has set the wholesale pricing for its Windows Server software on competing cloud platforms at higher rates than on its own Azure service. …
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… The group also introduced Nerdio Compass as a strategic management and optimization platform for Managed Service Providers, designed to streamline the delivery and profitability of Microsoft Cloud services , particularly Azure and Windows 365. …
… Earlier this year, in January, Microsoft also confirmed that the KB5074109 Windows security update caused connection failures during Remote Desktop connections to Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 for Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server customers. …
… Microsoft's models are available through Foundry formerly Azure AI Studio , a platform to develop AI agents and applications. Naomi Moneypenny, who leads the Microsoft Azure AI Foundry Models product team, talked up the model arrivals in a blog post . …
… Microsoft built it “to be purpose-built for Azure, which integrates vertically into all of our infrastructure to give you the best Azure Linux experience on Azure.” Azure Linux will ship as a VM image, but Microsoft is preparing a developer route onto Windows desktops through WSL and there will be … …
… The concerns center on products such as Windows Server and SQL Server being more expensive to run on certain rival clouds, notably Google Cloud and AWS, as Microsoft permits customers to reallocate on-prem licenses to cover cloud-based instances running on Azure. …
… Passkey sync capability is available on Windows and will be expanded to other platforms soon. …
TweakTown News Artificial Intelligence TL;DR: Microsoft and OpenAI have ended their exclusivity agreement, allowing OpenAI to offer products on any cloud provider while keeping Azure as its primary platform. …
… Windows itself has created unprecedented interest in competing platforms, like Linux , SteamOS , and potentially even the incumbent Android PC project from Google. …