Microsoft has been making improvements to Azure reliability in recent months. In July, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich detailed some of these in a blog post, including a reference to Project Tardigrade, ...

Kinect's legacy lives on. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Kinect, as it existed for Xbox, may be dead, but its legacy continues ...

Microsoft promises fast and flexible FPGA chips will unlock new AI abilities for customers using its Azure cloud-computing service. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

I don't think I'm the only one who has noticed that Microsoft officials have not said much about Azure Stack, its hybrid computing platform, this calendar year. I don't believe this is because ...

Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis is an electrical and computer engineering professor at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi, United ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure data centers to the project. It’s where Microsoft develops its Olympus servers and ...

Microsoft has a long history of turning its internal tools into products, especially as part of Azure. That’s not surprising: The company is building and running the same cloud-native applications as ...

It's time for another new Microsoft codename, decoder-ring fans. This week's entry: Project Brooklyn. (Thanks to Chris Woodruff of Deep Fried Bytes podcast fame for the pointer.) Here's the reasoning ...

One of the attractions of containers is the ability to spin them up nearly instantly when a cloud application needs more capacity. Much of the promise of the Microsoft Azure cloud similarly relates to ...