Episode 443 | Microsoft's Blockbuster Blizzard Acquisition & Updates to Azure Kubernetes Service
This week Microsoft dropped the news of its biggest acquisition to date and AC and CJ dive in to dissect it from their points of view.
News
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone, across every device
- Microsoft deal to buy Activision Blizzard will likely go through, says MKM’s Handler
- Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
- Sony reminds Microsoft of contractual obligations to make Activision games cross-platform
- Generally available: Azure Kubernetes support for upgrade events
- Generally available: Containerd support for Windows in AKS
- General availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure Kubernetes
- General availability: Ultra disks support on AKS
- Public preview: Kubernetes version alias support in AKS
- Public preview: Support for managed identity in Azure Cache for Redis
- Azure Machine Learning Announcements – January 2022 General Availability Announcement
Picks
AC’s Pick
CJ’s Pick
Published on:
Learn more
Related posts
Azure Functions MCP Extension: What’s New at Build 2026
A roundup of what shipped in the Azure Functions MCP extension since preview: resource and prompt triggers, MCP Apps, built-in MCP authenticat...
Secure Boot certificate updates for Linux on Azure virtual machines
Microsoft has published new guidance for managing Secure Boot certificate updates for Linux on Azure virtual machines, including Trusted Launc...
Soluzione Earns Microsoft Solutions Partner Designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)
Soluzione is pleased to announce that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure). This...
Azure SDK Release (May 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes. The post Azure SDK Release (May 2026) app...
How to Use Deep Agents with Azure Cosmos DB – Plan, act, and verify against operational data
Deep Agents is an agent harness built on LangGraph, for agents that need to work through a task over many steps instead of a single LLM call. ...
Retirement of Azure DevOps issuer in Workload identity federation service connections
We are announcing the deprecation of the Azure DevOps issuer in workload identity federation (WIF) service connections, with planned retiremen...
Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention
Azure Backup for Azure Cosmos DB Public Preview Adds Immutable Backups and Long-Term Retention Picture the first few hours after a serious dat...