Microsoft launched seven first-party AI models at Build 2026, creating a direct alternative to OpenAI’s offerings on Azure and signaling a strategic shift in how the company plans to serve developers.

Developers building on Microsoft Azure now have access to a catalog that has crossed 11,000 AI models, many of them produced by companies that compete directly with Microsoft’s closest AI partner, ...

The hyperscalers are joining forces to help customers fully migrate to the cloud — and place their data closer to Microsoft services to facilitate cloud-native development and AI experimentation. UK ...

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far.

The Seattle-based battle between Amazon and Microsoft for dominance of the cloud services industry has been competitive for a long time. After all, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy helped create the cloud ...