Shares of Microsoft ( MSFT +2.11%) have rallied recently, rising about 14% over the last 30 days as of this writing. The move comes ahead of the software and cloud giant's fiscal third-quarter earnings report, which is scheduled for after the market closes on Wednesday, April 29.

Today, I am pleased to announce that Azure Local now scales to support deployments of up to thousands of servers within a single sovereign environment, allowing organizations to run much larger workloads locally across large-footprint datacenters,

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. The tech company posted a note to its Azure status page that its teams are ...

NEW YORK -- Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The tech company wrote on its to its Azure status page that a configuration change to its ...

Microsoft's Azure Local now supports massive sovereign deployments, allowing governments and regulated industries to run large AI and data workloads on their own hardware. This cloud-consistent infrastructure,

AI & Business for April 28

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is using cloud computing to power its Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) in ways that make its forecasts more accurate.

Both of these tech titans are riding the artificial intelligence wave, but one of them seems like a better long-term investment than the other.