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  1. ProsperOps ADM for Azure GA: Autonomous Discount Management to Maximize Savings

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, bringing the company’s continuous, algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure customers via the Azure Marketplace and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of reservations...
  2. Cerence & Microsoft Unveil Office-Connected In-Car Agent for Outlook & Teams

    Cerence’s new in-car agent, built with Microsoft cloud services, has just crossed the line from concept demo to a usable — and commercially tempting — feature set: your car can now read and reply to Outlook and Teams messages, summarize what you missed, pull calendar locations and route you...
  3. Microsoft’s Refined Double-Digit Outlook: Growth via Azure, Copilot & AI Compute

    Microsoft’s public guidance has shifted from cautious optimism to a firmer promise: the company now expects another year of double‑digit revenue and operating‑income growth, a refinement that matters because Microsoft’s ability to sustain double‑digit expansion underpins lofty valuations and...
  4. IRIS Foundry in Teams and Copilot via MCP: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
  5. Visier Vee for Microsoft Copilot: Top HR Product Brings People Analytics to Office

    Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...
  6. Azure and AI: Microsoft's Growth Engine in a Capital-Intense Era

    Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
  7. Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU, App Updates, and Migration Plans

    Microsoft has set a firm end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—and the flurry of "30 days" headlines that followed this announcement compresses a complex, staged retirement into a single-sentence alarm that obscures exactly what will and won't change for users and IT teams...
  8. Westpac Rolls Out Microsoft Copilot Studio to Scale AI Across Banking

    Westpac has begun rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, giving cross‑functional teams the tools to design, publish and scale generative‑AI agents that can sit inside Microsoft 365, Teams and customer‑facing channels—part of a broader push by the bank to industrialise AI...
  9. Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Azure GA — FinOps Automation

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, bringing the company’s continuous, algorithmic commitment-management engine to Azure customers through the Azure Marketplace and promising automated buys, sells, and reshapes of Reservations and...
  10. ProsperOps ADM for Azure GA on Azure Marketplace: Automated discount management

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) for Microsoft Azure is now generally available through the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic, continuous commitment‑management engine to Azure compute customers and promising automated buys, sells, and reshapes of Reservations...
  11. Oracle AI-Driven Cloud Push: Exadata X11M, OCI, and Enterprise AI

    Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...
  12. ProsperOps ADM for Azure GA: Automated Discount Management for Cloud Commitments

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, a milestone that brings the company’s algorithmic, continuous rate-optimization engine to Azure customers via the Azure Marketplace and promises tighter alignment between commitments and volatile...
  13. ProsperOps ADM for Azure GA: Autonomous Discount Management in Azure Marketplace

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure via the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure compute services and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of Reservations and...
  14. Microsoft-OpenAI MOU Reshapes Frontier AI with Multi-Cloud Strategy

    The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...
  15. Middle East ERP Modernization with SAP S/4HANA, WalkMe, and Copilot

    New Era Technology’s pitch — that the gulf between opportunity and capability in the Middle East’s digital economy is closing — is no longer just marketing copy; it’s a blueprint for how regional enterprises can modernize ERP, accelerate user adoption, and begin to harness generative AI across...
  16. Microsoft MAI: Multi-Agent Orchestration and the Agent Factory

    Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...
  17. OpenAI-Microsoft Stargate: Multi-Cloud AI, ROFR, and the New Compute Era

    The OpenAI–Microsoft relationship has entered a new phase: a non‑binding agreement and a broad infrastructure push known as Stargate together loosen the old model of single‑cloud exclusivity while preserving deep commercial ties — a shift that will accelerate AI deployment, reshape cloud...
  18. ProsperOps CloudX Win Signals Autonomous FinOps and Workload Automation

    ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win this September marks a clear inflection point for FinOps: the vendor’s autonomous approach to commitment and workload orchestration has been recognized by the DevNetwork CloudX Awards, and the announcement crystallizes a broader industry shift from visibility and...
  19. Nvidia pivots DGX Cloud to Lepton marketplace, reshaping AI compute strategy

    Nvidia’s quiet retreat from a direct cloud play marks a meaningful strategic pivot: DGX Cloud — once pitched as NVIDIA’s own AI supercomputer service for enterprises — is being repurposed largely as internal infrastructure, while the company leans into a marketplace model (DGX Cloud Lepton) that...
  20. ProsperOps CloudX Win: Autonomous FinOps for Synchronized Cloud Cost Control

    ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win cements a clear message to the market: FinOps automation has moved from a niche toolkit into mainstream cloud management, and vendors that can safely automate both rate and workload decisions will shape how enterprises control cloud spend going forward...