Windows PowerShell 2.0 is being removed from Windows images, and the change—announced in an August 11, 2025 Microsoft support bulletin—begins rolling into production builds in late summer and early fall 2025; organizations that still depend on the legacy PowerShell 2.0 engine must inventory...
NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear escalation in the race to move enterprise AI from lab experiments into production-grade, sovereign-ready deployments—an initiative that bundles Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Dynamics...
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Dataverse Knowledge in Copilot Studio now searches the long notes and buried attachments that used to hide business-critical answers—thanks to new support for multi-line text columns and file columns, plus behind-the-scenes improvements that make repeated queries return more consistent answers...
Microsoft’s latest expansion of Defender for Cloud into its U.S. Government cloud offerings delivers long‑promised parity for server protection and brings Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to sovereign environments — a practical uplift for agencies that must balance stringent compliance...
Microsoft’s recent clarification that Microsoft Edge — and the Microsoft WebView2 runtime that powers many modern Windows apps — will continue to receive security and quality updates on Windows 10 (version 22H2) through at least October 2028 is a meaningful shift in the post‑end‑of‑life...
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NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for the Microsoft Cloud marks a decisive escalation in the company’s long-standing partnership with Microsoft, packaging cloud-native development, security, observability and agentic AI scale-up under one globally coordinated organization...
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NTT DATA’s new, dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud formalizes a major strategic bet: the systems integrator is consolidating Microsoft-focused sales, delivery and engineering into a single, AI-first organization designed to move agentic AI and cloud modernization from pilots into...
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GitHub’s chief executive, Thomas Dohmke, has publicly backed a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to reflect on employees’ use of internal AI tools as part of performance conversations — calling the practice “totally fair game” and framing AI fluency as part of company...
NTT DATA’s move to create a dedicated Microsoft Cloud business unit for the Middle East, Africa and beyond marks a clear strategic bet: concentrate global Microsoft expertise, certifications and delivery muscle under a single, outcome‑focused organization to accelerate cloud modernization and...
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CellTrust’s SL2 is now listed in Microsoft AppSource and is available directly through the Microsoft Teams Store, bringing enterprise-grade mobile message capture and compliance controls into the Teams workflow and lowering the friction for regulated organisations to govern SMS, WhatsApp and...
Microsoft has quietly separated the browser from the operating system timetable: Microsoft Edge and the Microsoft WebView2 Runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10, version 22H2, through at least October 2028, even though mainstream support for the underlying Windows 10 platform...
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Microsoft has made a clear, consequential distinction in the lifecycles of its platform and browser: Windows 10’s operating system support ends on October 14, 2025, but Microsoft Edge and the WebView2 runtime will continue to receive updates on Windows 10 (22H2) through at least October 2028 — a...
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Microsoft’s 2025 product sunsetting is not a single headline—it’s a sustained, cross‑product sweep that touches operating systems, developer tools, Office suites, Azure services, and enterprise server products, and it will force choices that range from simple in‑place upgrades to large-scale...
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Microsoft’s planned retirement of the Microsoft Lens mobile app marks a clear turning point for developers and operations teams inside fintech startups across Asia — and it forces a strategic rethink of document capture, OCR pipelines, and compliance workflows that many companies treated as...
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The terse exchange that followed OpenAI’s public rollout of GPT‑5—Elon Musk’s headline-grabbing “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive” and Satya Nadella’s measured rejoinder—did far more than entertain social feeds; it crystallized a complex rearrangement of power, dependency, and product...
ChatGPT-5 has arrived in Microsoft Copilot, promising a transformative leap in everyday productivity, workflow efficiency, and the boundaries of what generative AI can accomplish in Windows environments. This long-anticipated integration brings with it not only core improvements in language...
Microsoft’s sweeping rollout of OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry signals a decisive new phase for Windows and enterprise environments: AI is no longer an add‑on, it’s the operating principle. The headline change is simple but...
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Title: Microsoft 365 Copilot gets GPT‑5 sessions: what it means for your tenant, your budget, and your workflows
Executive summary
Microsoft has begun rolling out the option to run selected Microsoft 365 Copilot chats on GPT‑5, with a “Try GPT‑5” control appearing for licensed users in Copilot...
A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Packet Power’s EMX and EG products, exposing critical infrastructure worldwide to the risk of unauthorized remote access and control. The vulnerability, designated CVE-2025-8284, allows attackers to bypass authentication entirely, offering a...
When it comes to safeguarding organizational data against the ever-evolving threats of hardware failure, ransomware, or human error, Microsoft Azure Backup emerges as a powerhouse cloud-based backup solution tailored to modern business needs. Designed primarily for enterprises already invested...