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NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement in May 2026 to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft cloud and AI consultancy, adding more than 1,000 Azure engineers and Microsoft specialists to its global enterprise AI services business. The deal is not just another services roll-up. It is...

Amazon Web Services hired former Microsoft corporate vice president Shawn Bice as vice president of AWS AI Services on May 11, 2026, putting the longtime database, cloud, security, and Copilot executive in charge of AWS’s Automated Reasoning Group. The move is not merely another senior AI hire...

Kyndryl and Microsoft are pitching a May 2026 enterprise AI model that combines Kyndryl’s operational services, Agentic AI Framework, Digital Trust governance, and Bridge platform with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI, security, data, and productivity services to move AI from pilots into managed...

Kyndryl said on May 12, 2026, that its Microsoft alliance is now focused on moving enterprise AI from isolated pilots into governed production operations, combining Kyndryl’s managed-services model, Agentic AI Framework, Kyndryl Bridge insights, and Digital Trust controls with Microsoft Azure...

Data and AI consultancy Eunoia has earned Microsoft’s Analytics on Microsoft Azure Specialisation shortly before appearing at Cloud Tech Expo in Limassol on May 15, 2026, giving the Malta-headquartered and Cyprus-operating firm a newly audited credential in enterprise cloud analytics. The badge...

EY has built the EY.ai Agentic Platform as a global enterprise-scale agentic AI operating system, combining Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Fabric and Copilot Studio with NVIDIA GPUs, NIM microservices, NeMo Guardrails, Foundry and Omniverse to run governed AI agents across its...

Microsoft used the May 2026 Gartner Supply Chain Symposium in Orlando to frame Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management as a system where AI agents monitor disruption, reason across ERP data, and trigger governed actions before human teams lose time. The pitch is not that Microsoft has discovered...

Microsoft is turning Copilot in Outlook from a writing assistant into something much closer to an autonomous workplace agent, with new Frontier features that can triage inboxes, draft follow-ups, manage recurring meetings, reschedule conflicts, block focus time, and help users decide which...

Microsoft’s latest guidance on agentic AI lands on a deceptively simple point: the organizations getting value from agents are not starting with agents at all. They are starting with business workflows, especially those already captured in Power Apps, CRM systems, service platforms, and other...

Microsoft is pushing customer experience deeper into the agentic AI era with new capabilities across Microsoft Copilot Studio, Dynamics 365 Contact Center, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. The centerpiece is the general availability of real-time voice agents in Copilot...

Moore and Microsoft Bring Agentic AI to Nonprofit Fundraising With SimioAccelerate Moore has introduced SimioAccelerate, a new AI-powered fundraising intelligence platform built in collaboration with Microsoft on Microsoft Azure, positioning the product as a way for nonprofits of varying sizes...

Microsoft has moved Copilot’s most consequential Office upgrade out of preview and into everyday use, making agentic capabilities generally available across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The shift turns Copilot from a chat-style helper into an action-taking productivity layer that can edit...

Microsoft’s Copilot push has crossed an important threshold: the assistant is no longer being positioned merely as a clever chat box, but as an agentic productivity system that can plan, act, revise, and coordinate work across Microsoft 365. The latest wave of Copilot features brings multi-step...

Microsoft has put OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 into Microsoft Foundry, signaling another major step in the company’s effort to turn frontier models into enterprise systems that can actually be deployed, governed, and scaled. The announcement, published on April 23, 2026, frames GPT-5.5 as a model built for...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot move marks a turning point for the company’s productivity suite. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are no longer being positioned as simple canvases where AI helps users draft text or summarize information; they are becoming places where AI can actively carry out multi-step...

Microsoft’s decision to make Copilot’s agentic features generally available in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint marks an important shift in the company’s productivity strategy. The announcement is more than a feature drop; it signals that Microsoft now believes large language models are reliable...

Microsoft has moved Copilot out of the polite, suggestion-only role and into the document itself. In a general-availability rollout announced on April 22, 2026, the company said its agentic capabilities in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint can now take multi-step actions directly inside files, with...

Microsoft’s Copilot has crossed an important threshold: it is no longer just an assistant that answers questions, but a working collaborator that can act inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint by default. Microsoft says the new agentic experience is now generally available and is becoming the...

Microsoft’s latest move inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint marks an important turning point for its productivity suite. What The Verge called “vibe working” is now, in Microsoft’s own language, the arrival of agentic capabilities: Copilot can take multi-step actions directly inside Office files...

Microsoft is pushing Microsoft Discovery from a tightly controlled private preview into a broader enterprise preview, and that shift matters because it signals more than another Azure SKU entering the market. It marks one of Microsoft’s most ambitious attempts yet to apply agentic AI to the...