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Microsoft reports Q4 Azure and other cloud services revenue up 39% YoY, vs. 34.75% est., and full-year Azure revenue up 34% to $75B, vs. $74.62B est. (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-tops-quarterly…

🧑🏻‍💻 .NET 10 Preview Now Available on #Azure App Service! :azure: https://azure.github.io/AppService/2025/08/26/dotnet-10-preview-on-App-Service.html…

🔁 Be ready for the unexpected and set up disaster recovery for Azure VMs!
See how to enable replication and disaster recovery to another region:
🔗 #Azure

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Use CLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST API to stay flexible and in control. ⚙️📦 Just update those resource IDs! #CloudManagement
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Souveränität: EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Ersatz von Microsofts Cloud Azure
Die EU-Kommission verhandelt unter anderem mit OVHcloud aus Frankreich über die Ablösung ihrer Cloud-Dienste von Microsoft. Sie will als Trendsetter agieren.

Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13% (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/716191/microsoft-q4-20…

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too
Microsoft’s Q4 fiscal 2025 earnings are strong for cloud. Azure is up year-over-year, and Xbox and Windows are both up, too.

… und die daten werden dann alle in eine Azure-cloud geladen, die von China aus administriert wird.
Was für eine «partnerschaft» soll das sein!?
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/grenzpartnerschaft-mit-den-usa-eu-k…

… und die daten werden dann alle in eine Azure-cloud geladen, die von China aus administriert wird.
Was für eine «partnerschaft» soll das sein!?
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/grenzpartnerschaft-mit-den-usa-eu-k…

… und die daten werden dann alle in eine Azure-cloud geladen, die von China aus administriert wird.
Was für eine «partnerschaft» soll das sein!?
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/grenzpartnerschaft-mit-den-usa-eu-k…

💸 Avoid surprise cloud bills with ease! Use #Azure Cost Management’s anomaly detection to monitor usage, get alerts, and automate fixes—before it hits your wallet. 📊🔔 Stay smart, stay ahead. #CloudCosts #FinOps

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Souveränität: EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Ersatz von Microsofts Cloud Azure

I just released nugraph, a #dotnet tool for creating visual dependency graph of NuGet packages.
Installation:
dotnet tool install --global nugraph
Usage for a NuGet package:
nugraph Azure.Core
or for a .NET project:
nugraph ~/Projects/Kerberos.NET/Bruce/Bruce.csproj
Many options are available, everything is documented on https://github.com/0xced/nugraph
Enjoy!
Here's the kind of graph it generates (Azure.Core example).

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This photo warms my heart knowing that there are folks inside/outside of Microsoft who haven’t fully succumbed to the idea of profit over human life and suffering.
These people will forever be remembered as heroes.

"Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue, up 34 percent, driven by growth across all workloads."

✅ Microsoft Releases FY25 Q4 Earnings Report
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2025-Q4/press-release-webcast

I have no idea what past me wanted me to fix....

"The closely watched Azure division posted a 39% rise in sales during Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. Analysts projected a 34% increase."
✅ Microsoft Surges on Robust Cloud Growth, Record AI Spending - Bloomberg
https://archive.ph/iRBHg

Die EU-Kommission verhandelt unter anderem mit **#OVHcloud** aus Frankreich über die Ablösung ihrer Cloud-Dienste von **#Microsoft**. Sie will als Trendsetter agieren und die Datensouveränität in der EU forcieren.

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Christophe Parisel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10755…

Quantifying Azure RBAC Wildcard Overreach
Azure RBAC leverages wildcard permissions to simplify policy authoring, but this abstraction often obscures the actual set of allowed operations and undermines least-privilege guarantees. We introduce Belshazaar, a two-stage framework that targets both the effective permission set problem and the evaluation of wildcards permissions spread. First, we formalize Azure action syntax via a context free grammar and implement a compiler that expands any wildcard into its explicit action set. Second, w…

I think I'll hold my $MSFT, thank you very much.

✅ Microsoft market cap tops $4 trillion after hours on earnings beat - CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-after-hours-on-earnings-bea…

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
The software giant reported better-than-expected quarterly results and said Azure's annual revenue topped $75 billion.

Dar į temą apie Šved banką:
https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/scoop-commission-eyes-ditching-microsoft-azure-for-frances-ovhcloud-over-digital-sovereignty-fears/

The "kill cloud" at work.
https://www.972mag.com/microsoft-8200-intelligence-surveillance-cloud-azure/

"Dokumente vergleichen in #Word – lokal und via SharePoint" https://www.deroutlooker365.de/das-loesungsvideo-817-dokumente-verglei…

I love signing into Microsoft Teams so I can click the sign-in button to sign into Microsoft Azure Devops so I can click the sign-in button to sign into Microsoft Azure Devops Pipelines so I can click the

»Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit'«
Blind trust is never good, but unfortunately too many people are mentally blind.
🧑‍💻 https://www.geekwire.com/2025/reality-chec

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services

Deutsche Bahn outsourct ihre IT in die US-Cloud und erklärt, alles sei sicher – vertraglich, technisch, organisatorisch. Patriot Act? Cloud Act? Kein Problem, sagt die Bahn. Europäische Anbieter? Zu langsam, zu schwach. Souveränität? Wird wohl mit Performance aufgewogen.
Souveränität: Deutsche Bahn verteidigt die Nutzung der US-Cloud - #Golem

Souveränität: Deutsche Bahn verteidigt die Nutzung der US-Cloud - Golem.de
Es gebe keinen EU-Anbieter, dessen Cloud so leistungsstark und performant wie AWS oder Microsoft Azure sei.

Microsoft and the NFL extend their partnership to bring real-time game data and analysis to coaches and players using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI (Ali McCadden/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-nfl-ai-analysis.html

Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
Microsoft and the NFL announced a multiyear extension of their partnership to bring real-time analysis to the sidelines using Microsoft Copilot and Azure AI.

I'm paranoid about the cloud, OneDrive etc
I have a policy that most stuff I put on the cloud is encrypted (esp backups). Not always practical tho.
I was happy to discover rclone https://rclone.org/ a while ago, & to find out it can set up encrypted containers on OneDrive etc. Readable on both ends, e…

Oh thank you #Microsoft, for noticing 3 hours after you started to break #azure compute for the USGov VA zone that the change was going sideways, and alerting us that you’ll update us in a couple more hours.
Working hard to shed that third 9

Full demo of VIDEO generation through an agents in #Azure using multiple 3rd party #AI models such as Llama, Deepseek, Grok & Sora.
Orchestrating the allocation of the required GPU's - Nvidia GB200 & AMD MI300X &

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

Bitter Willow & Mountain Pine by the lakeside.
(The beautiful blue backgrounds are the colors of the water)
#NaturePhotography #Photography #BloomScrolling

https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/754647/microsoft-grok-4-roll-out-private-preview-notepad?utm_content=buffer2ce4c&…

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns
Microsoft is taking a careful approach with rolling out Grok 4 on Azure AI Foundry. It’s working on a private preview for a handful of customers.

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Emmanuel Korir, Eugene Wechuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05212

Real-Time AI-Driven Pipeline for Automated Medical Study Content Generation in Low-Resource Settings: A Kenyan Case Study
Juvenotes is a real-time AI-driven pipeline that automates the transformation of academic documents into structured exam-style question banks, optimized for low-resource medical education settings in Kenya. The system combines Azure Document Intelligence for OCR and Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI o3-mini) for question and answer generation in a microservices architecture, with a Vue/TypeScript frontend and AdonisJS backend. Mobile-first design, bandwidth-sensitive interfaces, institutional tagging, a…

I am really not sure if I'm holding it wrong, but whenever we try to collaborate with a customer using teams, it's a huge pain.
It MIGHT be because we're not using Office 365 ourselves, but honestly: I don't care.
I've never had anyone complain about "I don't understand how use you slack guest account", but with teams it's nearly always a huge pain. :-(
(Don't get me started on Azure Devops.)

#Microsoft erweitert seine EU-Cloud mit Sovereign Private und Public Cloud – klingt nach digitaler Souveränität, bleibt aber US-kontrolliert. Die Schlüsselverwaltung liegt jetzt beim Kunden, aber die eigentliche Machtfrage bleibt: Wer kontrolliert die #Cloud wirklich? | heise online

Souveränes Azure kommt: So kann nicht einmal Microsoft selbst Daten einsehen
Mehr Datenkontrollen für die Sovereign Public Cloud, eine neue souveräne Private Cloud beim Kunden, lokales M365 – so sollen EU-Kunden Microsoft vertrauen.

ChatGPT Connectors 0click Attack https://labs.zenity.io/p/agentflayer-chatgpt-connectors-0click-attack-5b41 that's why I don't like the idea of connecting any of my services to any of my other services. Convenience has costs.

Microsoft has once again been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning (DSML) Platforms.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog

Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms | Microsoft Azure Blog
Find out how Microsoft Azure Machine Learning can help you optimize business processes, improve customer experiences, and drive innovation.

interessanter #trick für #PowerPoint:
"Textstellen in PowerPoint mit dem Textmarker hervorheben – jetzt mit individuellen Farben"

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.15104 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

PecSched: Preemptive and Efficient Cluster Scheduling for LLM Inference
The scaling of transformer-based Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly expanded their context lengths, enabling applications where inputs exceed 100K tokens. Our analysis of a recent Azure LLM inference trace reveals a highly skewed long-tail distribution of input lengths, with approximately 80% of inputs shorter than 2K tokens. Long inputs constitute only a small fraction. Existing cluster-level LLM scheduling strategies, including First-In-First-Out (FIFO), reservation-based, and pri…

A little tip to all those folks using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: you're paying ~ 20x more than you need to be paying. If you claim you're using 'special services only provided by __insert name of ripoff cloud provider here__' then you've got your organisation locked into a single provider with the inability to move to a better one. Consider your options very carefully & build vendor-agnostic systems. Dependence on

Run your code on real Quantum machines. Get started building a Quantum compute environment with Azure Quantum.
#Microsoft

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Marcus D:
🎵 Azure Dream
#MarcusD
https://marcusd.net/track/azure-dream
https://open.spotify.com/track/6eNeFaX7FzoCQjN17LEDXV

To the person at Microsoft Azure who decided that key vault names must be (a) globally unique and (b) no more than 24 characters:
fuck you.

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Yiyu Ni, Marine A. Denolle, Jannes Munchmeyer, Yinzhi Wang, Kuan-Fu Feng, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Amanda M. Thomas, Chad Trabant, Alex Hamilton, David Mencin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11307

A Review of Cloud Computing in Seismology
Seismology has entered the petabyte era, driven by decades of continuous recordings of broadband networks, the increase in nodal seismic experiments, and the recent emergence of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS). This review explains how commercial clouds - AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure - by providing object storage, elastic compute, and managed databases, enable researchers to "bring the code to the data," thereby overcoming traditional HPC solutions' bandwidth and capacity limitations. After …

Christian Klein, SAP-Chef, warnt: Mit US-Hyperscalern wie AWS, Azure und Google Cloud zu konkurrieren, indem Europa zig Rechenzentren baut, ist „völlig verrückt“. Die Lösung? Nicht Infrastruktur, sondern intelligente KI-Anwendungen machen Europa stark! Die Zukunft liegt in smarter KI, nicht in digitalen Kraftmeiereien gegen US-Riesen. #Golem

SAP-Chef: "Mit US-Hyperscalern zu konkurrieren, ist völlig verrückt" - Golem.de
In Frankreich und anderswo in Europa viele neue Rechenzentren zu bauen, sei eine völlig falsch umgesetzte Souveränität. SAP-Chef Christian Klein schlägt etwas anderes vor.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DB. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DB/new
[1/1]:
- Cost-Effective, Low Latency Vector Search with Azure Cosmos DB
Nitish Upreti, et al.

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Ammar Malik, Jack Jackman, Terence O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05076

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles become increasingly prevalent at the edge, maintaining grid stability requires advanced monitoring and control mechanisms. This paper presents a scalable smart grid gateway architecture that enables interoperability between Modbus-based inverters and IEEE 2030.5 cloud-based control systems. The proposed solution leverages Azure cloud services and edge-computing gateway devices to support dynamic configurati…

Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/in-a-blow-to-google…

In a blow to Google Cloud, Replit partners with Microsoft | TechCrunch
Replit is one of the breakout stars of the vibe coding world. This partnership is a good deal for both companies.

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
Liangliang Chen, Huiru Xie, Jacqueline Rohde, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08962

WIP: Large Language Model-Enhanced Smart Tutor for Undergraduate Circuit Analysis
This research-to-practice work-in-progress (WIP) paper presents an AI-enabled smart tutor designed to provide homework assessment and feedback for students in an undergraduate circuit analysis course. We detail the tutor's design philosophy and core components, including open-ended question answering and homework feedback generation. The prompts are carefully crafted to optimize responses across different problems. The smart tutor was deployed on the Microsoft Azure platform and is currently in…

Microsoft plans to add a "safety" category to its AI leaderboard on Azure Foundry, with a safety metric based on its ToxiGen and CAIS's WMD Proxy benchmarks (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02f39b33-fa6e-4bb7-b1f4-8171b50738af

Microsoft to rank ‘safety’ of AI models sold to cloud customers
Tech group’s corporate clients use its ‘leaderboard’ to assess rival offerings by likes of OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI

Azure cost reduction/optimization for hosted applications using Artificial Intelligence. And it's REPEATABLE. Interested? Read on...
✅ Daniel Meppiel's Project Post
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielmeppiel_enterpriseai-ai-…

💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? | Daniel Meppiel
💥 What if AI could shrink your cloud bill by 80% in the time it takes to drink your coffee? 💥 I recently got it to happen—firsthand. What started as a quick experiment turned into something game-changing. Using VSCode's reusable prompts and the Azure MCP server, GitHub Copilot identified key optimizations for my app's infra in a predictable manner. Then, the Coding Agent implemented them. 📉 The result? An 80% smaller cloud bill. Just like that. In this 2-minute demo (linked below …

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
Alessio Di Santo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00189 https://arxiv.org…

Plug. Play. Persist. Inside a Ready-to-Go Havoc C2 Infrastructure
This analysis focuses on a single Azure-hosted Virtual Machine at 52.230.23.114 that the adversary converted into an all-in-one delivery, staging and Command-and-Control node. The host advertises an out-of-date Apache 2.4.52 instance whose open directory exposes phishing lures, PowerShell loaders, Reflective Shell-Code, compiled Havoc Demon implants and a toolbox of lateral-movement binaries; the same server also answers on 8443/80 for encrypted beacon traffic. The web tier is riddled with publ…

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
Guilin Zhang, Srinivas Vippagunta, Raghavendra Nandagopal, Suchitra Raman, Jeff Xu, Marcus Pfeiffer, Shree Chatterjee, Ziqi Tan, Wulan Guo, Hailong Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05653

Archetype-Aware Predictive Autoscaling with Uncertainty Quantification for Serverless Workloads on Kubernetes
High-performance extreme computing (HPEC) platforms increasingly adopt serverless paradigms, yet face challenges in efficiently managing highly dynamic workloads while maintaining service-level objectives (SLOs). We propose **AAPA**, an archetype-aware predictive autoscaling system that leverages weak supervision to automatically classify 300\,000\,+ workload windows into four archetypes (PERIODIC, SPIKE, RAMP, STATIONARY\_NOISY) with 99.8\% accuracy. Evaluation on publicly available Azure Func…

Analysts estimate AI services within Microsoft Azure generated $11.5B in revenue in the just-ended fiscal year, up 100% YoY but only ~4% of Microsoft's revenue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-microso

At Microsoft, we’re advancing quantum computing at every level. With our newly developed family of 4D geometric codes, and our co-designed quantum work with Atom Computing
, we’re getting closer to making large-scale quantum computing a reality. Learn more: https://aka.ms/AQBlogQEC

Microsoft advances quantum error correction with a family of novel four-dimensional codes - Microsoft Azure Quantum Blog
Learn how we're advancing quantum computing by developing 4D error-correction codes that are applicable to many types of qubits.

Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microso…

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Anatoli Kovalev, Narelle Stefanac, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04588

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Australia faces a critical technology skills shortage, requiring approximately $52,000$ new technology professionals annually by 2030, while confronting a widening gap between employer requirements and graduate capabilities. With only $1\%$ of technology graduates considered immediately work-ready, traditional educational pathways alone prove insufficient to meet industry demands. This research examines how industry certifications, such as Microsoft's AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals), can bridge …

Microsoft and the war in Gaza.
Thanks to the control it exerts over Palestinian telecommunications infrastructure, Israel has long intercepted phone calls in the occupied territories. But the indiscriminate new systemin the Azure cloud of Microsoft allows Israeli intelligence officers to play back the content of cellular calls made by Palestinians, capturing the conversations of a much larger pool of ordinary civilians.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

We’re looking for passionate Cloud & AI Solution Engineers to join Microsoft’s Azure Cloud & AI team in a pivotal presale technical role!
✅ Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - Software, Development Tools and AI
https://