Today, Microsoft published its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report. This report covers our fiscal year 2025, and measures progress against our 2020 baseline. You can read the foreword below and ...

As demand for cloud and AI services continues to grow, datacenters are becoming more essential than ever. Communities also want to better understand how this infrastructure affects local resources, ...

In 1838, the invention of the camera sparked predictions that photography would make artists obsolete. When the noted French painter Paul Delaroche first saw an early photograph on a metal plate, he ...

Every day, we decide what software to trust in seconds guided by simple labels such as “verified,” “secure,” and “safe to install.” The problem is that those signs can be manipulated. Today, Microsoft ...

Today we published our latest Global AI Diffusion Report. The global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the first quarter of 2026. During the quarter, AI usage increased by 1.5 ...

Europe is moving fast to capture the benefits of artificial intelligence, recognizing its potential to raise productivity, strengthen competitiveness, and help modernize public services. At the same ...

Microsoft announces at the India AI Impact Summit it is on pace to invest USD $50 billion by the end of the decade to help bring AI to countries across the Global South Artificial intelligence is ...

At Microsoft Ignite in November, we introduced Frontier Transformation — a holistic reimagining of business aligning AI with human ambition to help organizations achieve their highest aspirations and ...

Since opening our first Canadian office in Toronto in 1985, Microsoft has played an important role in every chapter of Canada’s digital story, long before cloud and AI were household words. That ...

Back in 2003, Microsoft commissioned some groundbreaking research from Forrester Consulting. The study, The Wide Range of Abilities and Its Impact on Computer Technology, explored how people were ...

Around the world, the dangers of extreme weather are a daily reality. In 2024, extreme weather displaced or disrupted the lives of more than 800,000 people worldwide —a reminder that accurate, timely ...

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacenter is connected to our first Fairwater site in Wisconsin, prior generations of ...