Clouds are booming

Software King of the World Microsoft forecast a strong end to the calendar year thanks to its booming cloud business but said supply chain woes will continue to dog key units such as those producing its Surface laptops and Xbox gaming consoles.

Also set to rain on their clouds

Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook  should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.

You won't be able to buy it

AMD has announced a partnership with 343 Industries and Microsoft in order to celebrate the upcoming release of Halo Infinite game, by launching a custom Halo-themed Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card that, unfortunately, won't be available in retail, but rather as a part of various events and giveaways.

Regulators got us in the pooh 

PutativeSoftware King of the World,  Microsoft, has decided to shut down LinkedIn in the country as the regulators are getting on its tits.

Adapt to cloud era

Networking giant Cisco says it has turned a corner in its attempt to adapt to the cloud era.

We should never have done it

Microsoft has said sorry to AMD for the silly decision to kick its chip off the original Xbox 20 years ago and go with Intel.

Largest in the world

Microsoft said its Azure cloud service mitigated a 2.4 terabytes per second (Tbps) distributed denial of service attack this year, at the end of August, representing the largest DDoS attack recorded to date.

Teams integration with Office might be naughty

EU antitrust regulators are following up on a complaint by Slack Technologies by asking Microsoft's rivals if its Teams app integrated with its Office product gives it greater clout.

Will not copy Jobs' Mob to save the planet

While Apple hopes to score more cash from fanboys by making their devices harder to repair, Microsoft has decided to go the other way in a move to save the planet.

L3 cache latency to blame

While a bunch of AMD CPUs are officially compatible with Windows 11 OS, this does not mean all is well with the new OS, as AMD and Microsoft have made a discovery that shows an indecent impact on application performance due to higher L3 cache latency.