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Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of leaning hard on OpenAI, Redmond is reportedly adding Anthropic’s Claude family to the mix and routing certain Copilot workloads to the company’s Sonnet models — a pragmatic pivot toward multi‑vendor, workload‑specific...

Microsoft’s move to ship MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview marks a clear strategic inflection: the company is no longer only a buyer and integrator of frontier models but a serious producer of first‑party models engineered to run inside Copilot and across Microsoft’s consumer surfaces. Microsoft...

Microsoft’s new MAI models are the clearest signal yet that Copilot’s brain is shifting from being almost wholly powered by OpenAI to a hybrid architecture that increasingly routes routine, latency-sensitive, and cost-sensitive tasks to Microsoft’s own systems. The company announced two...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...

Microsoft’s AI team has shipped two first-party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a decisive shift from a pure reliance on external providers toward building and productizing in‑house models tuned for Copilot and Azure services. eng-standing strategy combined deep...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 has arrived as a clear pivot from incremental “smarter chat” upgrades toward models built to reason—and the shift is already reshaping how Microsoft, developers, and everyday Windows users experience AI assistants on the desktop and in the cloud. Background: what landed and...

Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, has announced the launch of a new Zilliz Cloud region in Azure Central India, marking a significant expansion of its global infrastructure. This strategic move aims to empower businesses in India and neighboring regions to...

Elastic’s general availability launch of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure represents a significant turning point for organizations looking to capitalize on the dual power of serverless architecture and cutting-edge generative AI, without the headaches typically associated with...

Denmark's recent decision to transition its government systems from Microsoft's proprietary software to open-source alternatives like Linux and LibreOffice marks a significant shift in its digital strategy. This move underscores a growing global emphasis on digital sovereignty and the desire to...

Denmark's Ministry for Digital Affairs is embarking on a significant transition from Microsoft software to open-source alternatives, specifically Linux and LibreOffice. This move aligns with the nation's broader digitalization strategy, emphasizing digital sovereignty and cost efficiency. The...

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Denmark's Ministry of Digitisation has announced plans to phase out the use of Microsoft products within its operations, signaling a significant shift in the country's approach to public sector IT infrastructure. This decision underscores Denmark's commitment to enhancing digital sovereignty...

The cloud computing industry is witnessing a significant shift as neocloud providers, often referred to as "babyscalers," challenge the dominance of established hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. These emerging firms, including CoreWeave, Lambda Labs...

In the evolving landscape of hybrid work, seamless communication across various devices and locations has become paramount. Addressing this need, Vodafone Business, in collaboration with Microsoft, has introduced Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile—a solution designed to unify business communications...

DXC Technology’s relaunch of the SAP Fast RISE offering in Mexico is part of a broader global trend driving digital transformation via cloud ERP solutions, especially SAP S/4HANA, on hyperscale platforms like Microsoft Azure. Here’s how this initiative fits into the broader context and what it...

Azure Managed Redis marks a significant milestone in the evolution of cloud-native, in-memory data platforms, promising a seamless blend of Redis’ high-performance capabilities with the reach, reliability, and ecosystem advantages of Microsoft Azure. Following a preview phase that began in late...

The digital transformation of enterprise IT landscapes is reaching a critical inflection point. As organizations grapple with the spiraling costs and complexities of legacy environments, the need for streamlined, secure, and future-proofed modernization is more urgent than ever. In this...

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as one of the most transformative paradigms in cloud technology, reshaping how applications are built, deployed, and managed in today’s software landscape. While the term “serverless” may sound like an oxymoron, there are certainly servers behind the...

Asda's Top Tech Execs Depart Amidst Uncertain IT Future In a dramatic shake-up at the helm of one of the UK’s retail powerhouses, two of Asda’s top technology leaders are set to leave as the landmark "tech divorce" from Walmart settles. This leadership change is not merely an exit—it signals a...

Microsoft 365 has long been the trusty workhorse for productivity on Windows, whether you’re drafting a proposal in Word, crunching numbers in Excel, or coordinating projects via Outlook. But as free alternatives such as LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice continue to improve, many Windows users...