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Thought leadership October 14 2 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms

We’re building operational consistency through Azure and Azure Arc, and infrastructure consistency through Hyper-V.

Thought leadership October 13 6 min read

Infrastructure for the frontier era: Scaling intelligence through open industry collaboration

AI is reaching such a pivotal moment, and the focus is shifting from building larger frontier models to intelligence that delivers practical impact.

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Thought leadership October 12 7 min read

Deep dive into Azure Maia 300 architecture

Maia 300 operates as a single platform to meet the demands of cloud-scale agentic inference.

Thought leadership October 7 7 min read

AI transformation across the infrastructure lifecycle: From supply chain to fleet operations

The opportunity is bigger than making individual tasks faster.

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Thought leadership October 6 5 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms.

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Thought leadership September 30 3 min read

Responsible infrastructure at hyperscale: Managing the full lifecycle of Azure hardware

Microsoft is advancing Azure cloud infrastructure with more efficient systems and Circular Centers that extend the useful life of datacenter hardware.

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Events September 28 15 min read

FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents

Microsoft Fabric and SQL innovations announced at FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 help organizations build trusted data foundations for AI.

Announcements September 28 4 min read

Enhancing Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine lifecycle

Our Virtual Machine Lifecycle policy guides how we manage these transitions, giving Azure customers transparency, predictability, and guidance.

Graphic reads, Microsoft Foundry. Model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization

Announcements September 24 9 min read

Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization

The best model for your business will keep changing.

Thought leadership September 23 11 min read

Your architecture diagram is not your resilience

For years, resilience was something you set up once.

Graphic reads, Microsoft Foundry. GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna, now generally available

Announcements September 22 5 min read

GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks.

Microsoft Foundry Claude Opus 5.5 is now generally available

Announcements September 22 4 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue, synthesizing hundreds of pages of information, or working through a multi-step business process.

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