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A Defense Department Inspector General audit released on 22 April 2022 said the Army had not defined user acceptance for IVAS and could waste up to US$21.88 billion on headsets soldiers do not want.

CEO Satya Nadella told staff on 18 January 2023 that Microsoft would cut 10,000 jobs through 31 March as customers optimise their digital spending.

Microsoft’s 2023 Malaga concept boards identify EAT12, EAT13 and EAT14. The operator overview gives only an early-2026 first-building construction target and says the other two depend on customer demand. This does not establish EAT13’s claimed May 2027 opening, $650M, 57 MW IT or 250,000 sqft.

On 11 February 2025 Microsoft and Anduril announced Anduril would assume oversight of IVAS production and future development from Microsoft, pending Pentagon approval, with Azure as the preferred cloud.

On 10 April 2025 the US Army approved a contract novation making Anduril the prime contractor on the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, replacing Microsoft.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

A non-binding MoU for Aramco to explore industrial AI built on Microsoft Azure, a sovereign-cloud roadmap meeting Saudi data-residency rules and a global marketplace for co-developed energy AI, alongside AI, cybersecurity and data skills programmes in the Kingdom.

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft rivals, asking whether its licensing hobbles Windows and Office on other clouds and how it bundles AI, security and identity software.

Microsoft's license to OpenAI's models and products becomes non-exclusive through 2032 and OpenAI may sell on any cloud, while OpenAI's revenue-share payments to Microsoft continue through 2030 under a total cap and Microsoft stops paying one back.

On 27 May 2026 the US Department of Defense announced a five-year, roughly US$9.7 billion agreement with Dell to supply Microsoft software and cloud subscriptions across the military, intelligence community and Coast Guard.

Microsoft 365 Copilot's agentic mode for long-running, multi-tool tasks leaves its three-month Frontier preview for every Copilot customer worldwide, billed per task in Copilot Credits at $0.01 each on pay-as-you-go.

Microsoft's first datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a single cluster of NVIDIA GB200 servers it calls the world's most powerful AI supercomputer, is fully operational after its equipment came online in April.

Microsoft eliminated around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of its workforce, mostly in Xbox and its commercial business; Xbox cut 1,600 that day on the way to about 3,200 through fiscal 2027 and let four studios go to new management.

A July 2026 Government Accountability Office report said the Army decided none of about 10,000 IVAS goggles it built will be fielded after roughly US$1.8 billion, with IVAS 1.2 moving to the SBMC prototype program.

Microsoft's largest security update ever patches 966 vulnerabilities, including two Windows privilege-escalation zero-days already exploited in attacks and 105 rated Critical.

Closing Xbox's Tokyo Game Show 2026 Broadcast, Hideo Kojima revealed that Bill Skarsgård will play the lead in Physint, showed a new poster of him with Charlee Fraser, and shared behind-the-scenes capture footage from OD – KNOCK.

Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.

The ZET SCALE shipper alliance, backed by Microsoft and PepsiCo, picked Tesla as primary supplier for 2,500 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, the largest US electric truck order, nearly doubling the country's electric heavy-truck fleet.

Douglas County’s public portal identifies Microsoft EAT06 as a two-story data-center building at 875 Urban Industrial Way, parcel 22210920004. Permit BPC-2026-041 was approved September 24 and issued October 5, 2026. It does not verify the former $650M, 57 MW IT or 260,000 sqft claims.

The Coalition's origin-story prequel to the original Gears of War launches worldwide on October 6 at 8am Pacific on Xbox Series X|S, PC and Steam, day one with Game Pass, with Premium Edition early access from October 1. The standard edition costs $69.99.

Microsoft introduces a voluntary exit program across four countries. About 60,000 employees are eligible; that figure is not a confirmed departure or layoff count.

Microsoft will publish fiscal Q1 2027 results after the October 28 market close, followed by a 2:30 p.m. Pacific webcast. Its previous quarter brought $90.0 billion in revenue, up 18%.

Microsoft's 2026 annual Windows feature update rolls out as a small enablement package (build 26300) for PCs on 24H2 and 25H2, resetting support to 24 months for Home and Pro and 36 months for Enterprise and Education.

Microsoft's flagship conference for IT pros, developers, security and business leaders runs 17-20 November 2026 at San Francisco's Moscone Center and online, with Satya Nadella leading the featured speakers.

The first deployment of Jalapeño, the inference accelerator OpenAI designed and Broadcom builds under their 10 GW deal, due by the end of 2026 in data centers with Microsoft and other partners, ahead of a planned 1.3 GW in 2027.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.

Constellation’s August 6, 2026 results report progress toward restarting Crane Clean Energy Center in 2027, including FERC interconnection-rights transfer and an NRC fuel-licence amendment. This is restoration of Three Mile Island Unit 1, not a new reactor or a restart of accident-damaged Unit 2.

Nscale's Monarch Compute Campus in Mason County, West Virginia is a 2,250-acre off-grid gas-microgrid AI campus with a 1.35 GW (1,350 MW) Phase 1 and a stated path to 8 GW plus; Nscale cites more than 20B USD of planned investment (a local report says 40B USD) and Microsoft signed a letter of intent for 1.35 GW.

Microsoft is building a second Fairwater AI datacenter beside its first, now operational, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin facility, with completion scheduled for 2028 and a further 4 billion USD pledged; Cleanview lists 338 MW for the building, while Microsoft has published only campus-level power figures (400 MW phase 1, possibly 900 MW later).

Primergy said in March 2024 that its 408 MWac Ash Creek solar plant for Microsoft in Hill County, Texas will also include a 300 MW battery (EIA-860M lists 306 MW, March 2028); the 588M USD debt financing was for the solar project and no battery cost is published.

The California Energy Commission identifies Microsoft’s two-building San Jose project at 1657 Alviso-Milpitas Road, with a maximum electrical load of 99 MW and estimated load of 77 MW. A verified total project budget and COD remain unavailable.

Separate construction cost, IT power, floor area and an opening date for this building or phase have not been verified. Published campus figures do not establish independent component figures.