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The U.S. Navy has quietly confirmed a procurement and architecture problem that will look painfully familiar to any enterprise IT leader who’s ever bet the farm on a single cloud vendor: NAVSEA’s custom-built NAVSEA Cloud is locked to Microsoft Azure in ways the command now admits it cannot unwind without rebuilding the entire environment from the ground up. The Naval Sea Systems Command’s sole‑source rationale makes clear that critical mission systems rely on Azure-native managed services —...

NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated Global Business Unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive shift in how large systems integrators package cloud, AI and sovereignty capabilities for regulated enterprises — and it signals a coming wave of sovereign cloud demand across APAC that technology and risk teams must prepare for now. Background / Overview NTT DATA announced on August 7, 2025 that it has launched a Global Business Unit focused exclusively on Microsoft Cloud. The move bundles the...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold agentic AI into migration and modernization workflows is no minor update — it’s a coordinated product and services play that blends GitHub Copilot’s new application-modernization capabilities with expanded Azure Migrate tooling and a commercial program, Azure Accelerate, intended to underwrite and fast-track cloud projects. The net effect: Microsoft is positioning AI as an execution engine that can not only recommend migration steps but also act on them...

Orange County Information Technology (OCIT) has formally asked the market how to move its data, applications and cloud services off Microsoft Azure — a move framed as a comprehensive “Cloud Services Migration” RFI that would, if executed, amount to a rare large-scale government cloud exit and a consequential technology and procurement undertaking. The notice asks vendors for approaches, tools, timelines, and cost estimates to relocate application services, networking configurations, storage...

ProsperOps’ recognition at CloudX 2025 marks a concrete milestone for autonomous FinOps: the company was named a winner of the 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category for its work automating commitment management and synchronizing workload scheduling with rate optimization. Background and overview Founded in 2018, ProsperOps has built a business around reducing the friction and risk of long-term cloud commitments by applying continuous algorithmic decisioning to reservation and...

Lenovo’s latest SMB-focused infrastructure bundles promise to simplify on-premises modernization while making AI-ready infrastructure for SMBs more accessible — but the reality for small teams depends on careful trade-offs between convenience, cost, and long-term flexibility. Overview Lenovo today announced a set of pre‑tested, validated IT bundles designed for small and medium businesses that need to modernize quickly and prepare for AI-driven workloads. The offering combines Lenovo...

VoiceGate and the “Make in Vietnam” moment: how a Vietnamese voice‑AI stack is reshaping insurance compliance — and why cloud choice matters By WindowsForum editorial team — 24 September 2025 TL;DR — Vietnam’s NamiTech (aka Nami Technology) has built VoiceGate, a voice‑biometrics + conversation‑intelligence platform that insurers are using to authenticate customers, transcribe and audit sales consultations, and accelerate compliance checks. Microsoft’s Source Asia profile (published 24 Sep...

Microsoft shipped an unscheduled, out‑of‑band cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5068221) to repair a high‑impact compatibility regression that caused Microsoft Office to fail when delivered via Microsoft Application Virtualization (App‑V), while also carrying forward September’s security fixes and a servicing‑stack update—an emergency fix that restores App‑V Office stability but re‑emphasizes a separate SMBv1/NetBIOS connectivity caveat administrators must address before broad rollout...

Microsoft's revelation of an in-chip microfluidic cooling prototype marks one of the most ambitious attempts yet to wrestle the thermal limits of modern AI hardware — and it does so by breaking one of datacenter orthodoxy's oldest rules: don't wet the silicon. The company says tiny, hair-width channels etched into the back of a chip can route liquid coolant directly to hotspots, delivering up to three times the heat removal of conventional cold plates in lab-scale tests and cutting the...

Bitdefender’s new Ultimate Small Business Security suite has landed in the United Kingdom, arriving as a single, turnkey cybersecurity package aimed squarely at small firms with up to 25 employees that lack dedicated IT teams and need easy-to-manage, multi-device protection against ransomware, phishing, account takeovers, and AI-driven scams. Background Small businesses have rapidly become high-value targets for cybercriminals as hybrid and remote work patterns persist, and many proprietors...

Space42’s announcement that it has partnered with Microsoft and Core42 to build what it calls the UAE’s first Sovereign Mobility Cloud marks a pivotal moment in how the Emirates plans to host, govern and accelerate mobility and autonomous systems at scale. The joint offering positions itself as a regulated, high-assurance cloud environment purpose-built for HD mapping, telematics, fleet operations, traffic management and digital twins — bringing hyperscaler innovation into an environment...

Microsoft’s lab teams have demonstrated a bio‑inspired, AI‑optimized in‑chip microfluidic cooling system in partnership with Swiss startup Corintis, claiming up to 3× the heat removal of conventional cold plates and a 65% reduction in peak silicon temperature rise in GPU tests — results that, if validated at scale, could redefine datacenter density, energy use, and chip architecture. Background The thermal challenge at hyperscale is acute: modern AI accelerators pack enormous power into...

OpenAI and SAP announced a high-stakes partnership to deliver a sovereign AI service for Germany’s public sector — “OpenAI for Germany” — a program that pairs OpenAI’s models with SAP’s Delos Cloud and Microsoft Azure infrastructure to meet Germany’s exacting data-sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. Background Germany has pursued digital sovereignty as a policy priority for several years, driving a wave of vendor‑neutral sovereign cloud projects and public-sector...

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Microsoft’s 2025 Windows 11 feature update — version 25H2 — arrives as a careful, operationally minded release rather than a headline-grabbing rework: it’s an enablement package that flips on features already staged in the 24H2 servicing stream, removes a few long‑deprecated tools, and resets the support clock for devices that adopt it. Background / Overview Microsoft’s engineering and servicing strategy for Windows has continued to evolve away from “big rebases” toward a shared servicing...

Fast Company’s recent dispatch lands like a corrective: despite the torrent of vendor claims, glossy demos, and executive mandates, AI tools are not yet producing the broad, measurable productivity lift companies expected. That headline — that AI copilots, chat assistants, and generative models “aren’t making much of a difference” in day-to-day corporate outcomes — is a useful shock to the system. It forces IT leaders and business strategists to stop treating model access like a strategic...

Windows Server 2019 administrators face a simple but urgent choice: rely only on built‑in protections or add a purpose‑built server antivirus to harden critical services and data. A recent roundup of “7 Best Antivirus for Windows Server 2019” names ESET, Bitdefender, Norton, Avast, VIPRE and others as options to consider — but the list mixes consumer and server products and omits important deployment caveats that every admin should know before buying. Background / Overview Windows Server...

Microsoft’s Game Pass strategy moved from aggressive growth to an unmistakable consolidation play this week as ID@Xbox head Chris Charla confirmed the company has struck deals with more than 150 partner studios in what he described as Microsoft’s “largest investment in Game Pass to date.” That initiative—unveiled publicly during Gamescom and discussed in a Eurogamer interview—was framed as a broad push to expand catalog breadth, surface more indies and mid‑size projects to subscribers, and...

Microsoft’s long‑running maintenance of Windows 10 reaches a hard stop this autumn, forcing millions of home users and small businesses to choose between upgrading hardware and software, paying for a short-term security lifeline, or continuing on an increasingly risky unsupported platform. Background / Overview Microsoft has set a fixed end‑of‑support date for mainstream editions of Windows 10 (version 22H2): after October 14, 2025, Microsoft will no longer provide regular security patches...