I spent most of the last decade in the Midwest (hello, Chicagoland!) but now live in the Seattle area and work at the Microsoft campus in Redmond. Before moving here, I’d visited the Redmond campus dozens of times as a Microsoft partner and customer, but had only basic airport-campus-hotel-restaurant navigation skills. Relocating a family of…
Modern innovation is how companies differentiate, and AI is the prime example In a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed, it’s astonishing to realize that many businesses still rely on systems built decades ago. Imagine this: 220 billion lines of COBOL code are still running in production today, powering critical operations in industries ranging…
As businesses continue to adapt to changing market demands, running modern workloads requires the rapid integration of AI from digital to physical estate. Managing enterprise-level infrastructure and applications across environments needs to be simplified with centralized visualization and control across IT assets. Azure Arc extends the Azure platform to standardize governance, security, and orchestration for…
Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest release of Windows Server 2025 is the addition of hybrid and multicloud capabilities, aligned with Azure’s adaptive cloud approach. With hotpatching, we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available…
We are thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-image-1, the latest and most advanced image generation model, coming soon to eligible customers on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. This groundbreaking model sets a new standard in generating high-quality images, solving complex prompts, and offering zero-shot capabilities in various scenarios. Build custom generative AI solutions That’s enough…
What do leaders in sports and entertainment, healthcare, consulting, and financial services have in common? First, they’re using data, AI, and cloud technologies in ways that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. And they’re sharing their experiences from the front lines of the AI platform shift in our new Azure podcast, Leading…