Microsoft will post results for the quarter ended Sept. 30 after the market closes Wednesday, with analysts polled by LSEG expecting adjusted earnings of $4.73 per share on revenue of $90.69 billion. The report marks the company's first switch to two operating segments since 1998, replacing its prior three-way split, and the first time it will disclose Azure revenue in dollar terms, with StreetAccount analysts forecasting $32.32 billion, implying growth above 44%.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-28
Microsoft has released Scope, an open-source platform built on Kubernetes that lets development teams run repeatable experiments to see how AI coding agents interact with their SDKs, CLIs, MCP servers and documentation. The tool is available under the MIT License and is designed to turn observed agent behavior into actionable fixes for product teams. Microsoft cites the Azure Cosmos DB team, which used Scope's evaluations to resolve 20 Agent Kit issues and 27 documentation issues.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-26
OpenAI's models have been made accessible through all three major US cloud platforms—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud—according to the report's headline. This expands the channels through which enterprise customers can access OpenAI's technology beyond its direct API and Microsoft's existing partnership.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-21
GitHub reports that nearly all repositories on its platform now have copies split between its own data centers and Microsoft Azure, with the first repository replica landing in Azure's Central US region in August 2025. The company says most repositories currently keep two of their five replicas in Azure, which now serves roughly half of all Git traffic, while a small set of the busiest repositories remain constrained by a 25ms network round trip.
github.blog
· 2026-10-21
Microsoft has pulled out as anchor customer for Nscale's proposed 50MW (expandable to 90MW) AI data center in Loughton, Essex, which was meant to house 23,040 Nvidia GB300 GPUs for Azure starting in 2027. The withdrawal reportedly follows warnings from UK Power Networks that sufficient grid capacity may not arrive until the early-to-mid 2030s. Nscale says the project continues and it is seeking alternative power sources and sites.
hardware.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-20
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that caused black screens, delayed desktop loading, and Windows Explorer crashes following updates released since August, mainly on Azure Virtual Desktop hosts using FSLogix. The fix shipped in this month's Patch Tuesday cumulative updates dated October 13, 2026, with Microsoft urging affected users to install the latest update.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-15
Microsoft has rejected claims that it ordered Azure division leaders to cut expenses by 20% to help fund rising AI spending. A company spokesperson called the reports 'inaccurate and careless' and said no such directive was issued.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-14
A Hacker News poster warns that domains using the third.level.name format are scheduled to be permanently expunged next year, and asks others how they are migrating away. The poster describes being stuck with Azure, saying admin emails on the account cannot be changed and that Microsoft support has been unable to help.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-10-14
Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia AI accelerator, the Maia 300, saying it will increasingly handle AI processing requests with its own silicon rather than Nvidia GPUs. The chip enters production in 2027, and Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie said Microsoft is targeting multi-gigawatt deployments of the Maia chip family across its Azure data centers.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-12
Microsoft announced its third-generation Maia 300 AI chip, which it plans to make the primary inference system for its products and services starting in 2027. Executive Scott Guthrie said the chip delivers 40 percent more tokens per megawatt than leading GPU systems and up to 7x the rack-scale throughput of its predecessor, Maia 200, which launched in January and already powers Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-12
Microsoft Security Research reported that a threat actor it tracks as Storm-3168, also known as JadePuffer, compromised two legitimate Azure service principals belonging to one tenant and used them to map the victim's environment before launching an automated destruction campaign against storage, applications, databases and backup controls. The attack, which occurred in early June, involved one account spending over 15 hours on reconnaissance while a second executed rapid, wide-ranging discovery and destructive operations within seconds. Microsoft said the pattern matches ransomware or extortion tactics but noted it did not observe a ransom note or confirm data theft.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-28
Microsoft Security Research documented two June attacks by a threat actor it tracks as Storm-3168, using compromised service principals to map Azure resources, steal storage account keys, and delete over 100 storage accounts along with Key Vaults, Function Apps, Virtual Machines and App Services within a seven-minute destructive phase. Some accounts survived due to Azure resource locks and storage-level protections, and attempts to delete Azure SQL databases failed. The attacker also removed Azure Site Recovery locks that normally protect backup and recovery capabilities.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-09-28
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