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• Azure revenue soars as Microsoft reports bumper earnings

  Microsoft has posted quarterly profit and revenue that beat analysts' estimates, as more businesses signed up for Azure and Office 365.

• Microsoft lures Windows 2008 users to cloud through extra support offer

  Microsoft will provide three more years of support to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 when workloads are moved to Azure environments.

• Microsoft brings Azure to enterprise-grade marketers

  Microsoft has unveiled plans to provide artificial intelligence and data driven insights to enterprise marketers, powering new cloud-based platforms through Azure.

• HPE places a $4B bet on its edge-network portfolio

  HPE has a US$4B to build out a computing architecture that spans the data centre, edge network and cloud over the next four years.

• Ingram Micro unveils mega cloud division, built on Microsoft Azure

  Ingram Micro has unveiled a new independent software division designed to help service providers build, scale and monetise cloud and digital services.

• Alibaba cracks top five global cloud market share tally

  Alibaba has become one of the top five cloud infrastructure service providers in terms of global market share.

• Microsoft takes $13.8B tax charge amid continued cloud growth

  Microsoft has sees continued growth in its cloud computing business, but took a US$13.8 billion one-time charge due to the new US tax law.