Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Microsoft is working with Anyscale to help you build, train, and run your own ML models with PyTorch on AKS. The move to building and training AI models at scale has had interesting second-order ...

Anyscale Inc., creator of the open-source distributed computing platform Ray, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft Corp. and the private preview of a new artificial intelligence-native ...

Thousands of users were reporting outages across Microsoft services and a variety of other products midday on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Microsoft Azure, a ...

NEW YORK -- Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The tech company wrote on its to ...

"Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as ...

Microsoft has released Azure Container Storage v2.0.0, introducing significant performance enhancements and architectural simplifications for stateful workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). The ...

Microsoft suffered a relatively brief but certainly inconvenient outage on Thursday. A number of its popular productivity services went down — most notably its Microsoft 365 software, which includes ...

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