Intro you hey there keep an eye on a week our site is getting a new look and a top-to-bottom redesign here are your top news stories from eWEEK today's topics include the federal communications commission's call for a full report on AT&T s march eight 911 outage Microsoft's announcement it will use a RM chips in its new cloud servers Microsoft's developer friendly visual studio team services and title scales new server offering inverse virtualization the FCC is investigating ATT Wireless 911 Outage a 911 outage which affected an unannounced number of AT&T Wireless customers across the United States for several hours on march eight AT&T has confirmed the 911 problem for some wireless customers in an email reply to an inquiry from eWEEK but did not release full details of what happened how many customers are what area of the country was affected by the outage FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has directed his staff to find out what caused the 911 service outage for AT&T wireless customers and provide a full report microsoft said Microsoft to Use RM Processors march eight that for the first time it is decided to start using chips based on a RM holding designs in the hundreds of thousands of servers that run its cloud services this isn't exactly welcome news for Intel Microsoft longtime partner in a leader in the data center processors market because a RM processors use less power than Intel's Microsoft is seeking to cut costs in its fast-growing Azure cloud business Microsoft has more than 100 data centers globally in 30 regions that are candidates for using the new cloud servers which are based on a design called Project Olympus and powered by a RM based chips Microsoft T some of the upcoming features coming to visual studio team services its cloud-based source code management offering Visual Studio 2017 reached the long anticipated general availability milestone march seven along with the first major update for visual studio team foundation server 2017 microsoft is also teasing upcoming visual studio developer tools conditional paths multi-phase build and shared variables are among the States coming to visual studio team services according to corporate vice president Brian Harry a little-known Tidal Scale startup called tidal scale may well have come up with the biggest advance in servers sense via vmware's virtualization of the Intel I 832 platform 18 years ago title scale is doing something at called inverse virtualization instead of taking a standard server and slicing it up into smaller pieces for individual applications title scale aggregates computing power from various commodity type boxes from within a system and Corral's it all into a single computing ocean or dynamic Ram computing power tidal scale already has several units and daily production whose owners say it works very well thanks for watching follow the links on this page to learn more about the stories mentioned in this broadcast and check back every day for another daily tech briefing from eweek.com