Microsoft President of 15,000-person Digital Transformation Group, James Phillips, is out
As part of a big reorg inside Microsoft's enterprise side of the house, Nuance also is starting to get integrated into the Cloud + AI business.
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Microsoft rebrands its compliance and data-governance products as 'Microsoft Purview'
Microsoft is bringing together its Microsoft 365 compliance and Azure Purview data-governance products into a suite now known as 'Microsoft Purview.'
Microsoft acquires objectives and key results vendor Ally.io and plans to add it to Viva
Microsoft is buying OKR vendor Ally.io and is planning to make its objectives and key results technology the core of a fifth module in its Viva employee-experience platform.
Former AWS exec Charlie Bell to head new Microsoft Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management org
Microsoft announced former AWS bigwig Charlie Bell would lead a new engineering organization and report to CEO Nadella only after Microsoft comes to a resolution with Amazon.
Global Azure outage knocked out virtual machines, other VM-dependent services
A nearly eight-hour outage affected Azure users globally who were using Windows VMs and services dependent on them.
Microsoft goes public with planned changes to undo restrictive cloud licensing policies in Europe
Microsoft is undoing in Europe some of the restrictive cloud-licensing policies it first announced in 2019, which made running its software more expensive on its competitors' clouds.
Microsoft brings Arm support to Azure virtual machines
It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is making available a preview of Azure VMs supporting Arm-based processors from Ampere.
Customers aren't happy about Microsoft's restrictive cloud licensing policies
As European regulators dig into three-year-old restrictions, Microsoft officials say they will look into complaints around running Microsoft software on rival clouds.
Microsoft to rebrand its partner program and focus resellers further around its cloud
Microsoft is making big changes in certifying and scoring resellers. But so far, despite continued partner outcry, there have been no changes to the New Commerce Experience requirements.
Microsoft reorgs its cloud business, creates new Strategic Missions and Technologies team
Microsoft's new Strategic Missions and Technologies team, headed by Jason Zander, will group Microsoft's evolving Federal, Azure Space, telco, and quantum computing businesses.