Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft Corporation (L), and John Donovan, CEO, AT&T Communications pose in this undated photo in Redmond, Washington, U.S., released July 17, 2019. Courtesy Microsoft Corp/Handout via REUTERS
Microsoft Corp and AT&T Inc on July 17 said they reached a deal under which the telecommunications company will tap Microsoft's Azure cloud service for its computing needs and use Microsoft 365, which includes Office productivity software, for much of its 268,000-strong workforce.
Under the deal, Microsoft and AT&T will also work together on so-called edge computing, which will see Microsoft technology deployed alongside AT&T's coming 5G network for applications that need extremely small delays in passing data back and forth, such as air traffic control systems for drones. The multi-year deal is worth more than US$2bil (RM8.22bil), according to a person familiar with the matter.
