Walgreens teams with Microsoft to battle Amazon
As part of the accord to design "digital health centers," Walgreens will begin using Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing software, moving applications and data to the tech...
A new generation of artificial intelligence is taking on hackers
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and various startups are deploying machine-learning algorithms that crunch massive amounts of data on logins, behavior and previous attacks to ferret out...
Privacy groups urge tech firms to sign Safe Face Pledge to restrict use of facial recognition
The pledge unveiled by the Algorithmic Justice League and Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown University asks companies not to provide facial AI for autonomous weapons...
Amazon takes on Microsoft, targeting hybrid-cloud customers with on-site servers
Amazon is trying to reach larger businesses that want to store some of their technology functions in the cloud while keeping tighter control of others.
VW to use Microsoft’s Azure cloud to connect its vehicle fleet; Redmond could see 300 jobs
VW will channel all of its digital offerings through Microsoft’s Azure software. The automaker plans to set up an automotive cloud development center near Microsoft’s...
Amy Hood won back Wall Street and helped reboot Microsoft
Amy Hood, who has become Microsoft’s longest-tenured chief financial officer in two decades, tells new employees her job is to make sure “you still want...
Microsoft opposes ICE policy on migrant children
The separation of families at the U.S.-Mexican border is the latest immigration issue to roil relations between the U.S. government and the tech industry.
Microsoft looks to lure health-care companies to its cloud with new tools
Microsoft unveiled a tool for its Azure service that puts powerful computing resources to the task of gene-analysis for precision medicine. The company is also...