Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.

Microsoft says the attack, sourced from more than 500,000 compromised IPs, exposes deep weaknesses in home IoT and raises questions about enterprise DDoS readiness. Azure has blocked its largest DDoS ...

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serial technology CEO covering all things IT & Tech. On October 29 the internet suffered another global scare. Microsoft’s Azure ...

Thousands of users were reporting outages across Microsoft services and a variety of other products midday on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Microsoft Azure, a ...

Microsoft said Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform might experience increased latency after multiple undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, as reported by Bloomberg. In a status update ...

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be set up by Microsoft for all Azure resource management operations in an effort to improve security across Azure systems beginning in October which is in order ...

Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts. This change is part ...

To begin the process, it’s necessary to have an Azure account with an active subscription and an existing Azure Virtual Machine. By default, Azure assigns a dynamic private IP address to VMs, allowing ...

Testing made easy with Azure DevOps! In this session, learn how to create, manage, and track test plans to boost quality and streamline your development workflow. The US government seems to have a ...