Microsoft delivered better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings results as Azure ended the fiscal year with $75 billion in revenue, up 34%.
Google Cloud's move to file a complaint with the European Commission over Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive business practices with Azure highlights how the cloud battle is moving to courtrooms and regulators.
Microsoft and Quantinuum said they have created 12 highly reliable logical qubits by combining Azure Quantum's qubit virtualization system to Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion quantum computer. Microsoft also said it would work with Atom Computing to add a new quantum system to Azure Quantum.
Palantir Technologies said it will deploy its AI Platform (AIP) on Microsoft Azure for U.S. government agencies and use Azure OpenAI service.
Microsoft announced a bevy of additions to Azure including AMD Instinct MI300X instances, Cobalt 100 instances in preview and the latest OpenAI model, GPT-4o, in Azure OpenAI Service.
Oracle Database@Azure can be a model for other hyperscalers, says Oracle CTO Larry Ellison. Will AWS and Google Cloud bite?
