$Lumen Technologies(LUMN)$ $Microsoft(MSFT)$ Microsoft and Lumen Technologies are expanding their co-selling collaboration to offer Lumen's suite of cloud-networking and application-connectivity capabilities to Microsoft's Azure. The move expands how customers can access and use Lumen capabilities through Microsoft's cloud and artificial-intelligence ecosystem, the companies said Monday. With the offering, Azure customers will get access to Lumen's network and on-demand control capabilities for the simplified connectivity and resilient network foundation needed to power AI workloads, the companies said.