SAP SE will maintain access to Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services even if a foreign government attempts to cut it off, after Donald Trump’s administration sanctioned an international court in the Hague.

Microsoft confirmed that Azure blocked a denial-of-service attack that involved more than 500,000 IP addresses spread across multiple regions.

The European Union is considering stricter scrutiny for Amazon and Microsoft's cloud businesses. The EU's executive Commission is assessing whether Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should be classified as "gatekeepers" under the Digital Markets Act.

Microsoft has launched Windows 365 for Agents, a new cloud PC solution tailored for AI agents to complete user tasks by interacting with applications on Windows or Linux.

European Commission reveals the initiation of three market investigations concerning cloud computing services under the landmark Digital Markets Act.

The launch of Microsoft's region comes shortly after Google revealed it would invest an additional €5bn ($5.8bn) in cloud and AI infrastructure in Belgium over the next two years, specifically in the Saint-Ghislain region. Google launched its first campus in the country in 2009 and is also building a site in Farcienne.

Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund the Public Investment Fund, Saudi information technology company SITE and Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding to explore the delivery of Microsoft’s sovereign-cloud services in the kingdom,

The point-in-time restore feature will bring a Windows PC back to a previous state, while cloud rebuild will reinstall Windows from the cloud.

The announcement underscores the AI industry’s insatiable appetite for computing power as companies race to build systems that can rival or surpass human intelligence.

Valorem Reply, the Reply Group company specializing in Microsoft technologies and AI-driven, cloud-native solutions, announced today it has won the 2025 Microsoft Inclusion Changemaker Partner of the Year Award.