Customer demand for cloud and AI is accelerating worldwide, and this demand has been particularly strong in Europe. Public sector customers like Manchester City Council are using Microsoft 365 Copilot to streamline operations and improve citizen services, while...

In this article Defense in depth as a systemSecure by design: Engineering security into the platformHardware and host-level trustVirtual machine-layer trustSecure by default: Protection enabled without frictionSecure defaults across networkingEncryption and data...

As cloud workloads become more agentic and AI systems increasingly handle mission‑critical data, trust must be engineered into the infrastructure at every layer. At Microsoft, security is designed into the foundation of our cloud infrastructure, from silicon to...

In this article Built on a proven foundation extending into AIOne platform to scale APIs and AIGovernance by design for AI at scaleTurning AI innovation into business impactExpanding the platform for what’s next As AI moves into production, how systems interact is...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available tomorrow in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work. GPT-5.5 continues a clear progression in the GPT-5 series. GPT-5 brought...

Transforming R&D with agentic AI: Introducing Microsoft Discovery Read the blog Over the past year, we’ve made significant progress with Microsoft Discovery by working closely with research and development (R&D) organizations. Today, we’re sharing how those...

In this article Database modernization: Why now?Why Azure Accelerate for Databases? What you can do with Azure Accelerate for Databases Unlock savings and investments Get started with Azure Accelerate for Databases Database modernization: Why now? We consistently hear...