Microsoft has quietly opened a conversation with on‑prem Exchange Server administrators about whether they would welcome Copilot-style AI features in locally hosted mail environments — and the survey’s most pointed question makes clear Microsoft is actively exploring hybrid approaches that could...
Microsoft’s outreach to Exchange Server administrators — a short, targeted survey asking whether organizations would consider enabling Copilot for Exchange Server (on‑premises) — has set off immediate debate across IT circles about data residency, sovereignty, and the practical limits of on‑prem...
Microsoft’s latest push to "Copilot all the things" has landed squarely in the laps of Exchange Server administrators: Microsoft has circulated an interest survey asking whether organizations would consider enabling Copilot for Exchange Server (on‑premises) — even if that requires sending some...
Microsoft's outreach to Exchange Server administrators — a short, targeted survey asking whether organizations would want Copilot integrated into on‑premises Exchange — is a clear signal that the company is actively exploring ways to bring its AI assistant into environments that have, until now...
Kuwait’s government has moved from promise to program: officials and Microsoft announced a strategic partnership to build an AI‑powered Azure Region inside Kuwait, roll Microsoft 365 Copilot out across government, and seed a local AI innovation ecosystem — a suite of commitments the government...
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Microsoft’s pledge to process Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions inside the United Arab Emirates by early 2026 marks a consequential shift: the company will host Copilot prompts, responses and related interaction data in Azure datacenters located in Dubai and Abu Dhabi for qualified UAE...
Microsoft’s announcement that Microsoft 365 Copilot interactions will be processed in‑country for qualified UAE organizations marks a significant step in the Gulf’s push to reconcile rapid AI adoption with strict data residency and regulatory expectations, and it could materially accelerate...
ZainTECH’s new alliance with Zain Kuwait, ZOI and Microsoft signals a major push to accelerate government digital transformation in Kuwait, but the deal as announced blends concrete technical commitments with broad strategic intent — and success will hinge on timelines, service availability...
CanXP AI’s announcement that it has launched what it calls “Canada’s first sovereign AI ecosystem” marks a notable moment in the country’s rapidly evolving AI landscape — but the claim deserves close scrutiny. The startup’s initial public release positions CanXP as a Canadian-built...
A sweeping industry report released this year warns that Microsoft’s Copilot is touching orders of magnitude more sensitive business data than many IT teams realise — with Concentric AI reporting that Copilot accessed nearly three million confidential records per organisation in the first half...
SAP and OpenAI have announced a joint initiative — OpenAI for Germany — designed to bring advanced generative AI into the German public sector while attempting to preserve national sovereignty, strict data protection, and regulatory compliance. The offering will be delivered via Delos Cloud...
Microsoft’s Copilot is learning to plan — not just answer — and the company has rolled out a pair of agentic features that push that capability directly into Word and Excel: a new Agent Mode for in‑app, multistep assistance and an Office Agent that creates documents from the Copilot chat surface...
OpenAI and SAP have announced a high-profile partnership — branded "OpenAI for Germany" — to deliver a sovereign AI service for Germany’s public sector by combining OpenAI’s models with SAP’s Delos Cloud and Microsoft Azure infrastructure, with a planned rollout in 2026 and an initial...
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Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...
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Microsoft has disabled specific Azure cloud and Azure AI subscriptions used by a unit of Israel’s Ministry of Defense after an expanded internal review found evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged the platform was being used to ingest, store and analyze large...
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Microsoft has ceased and disabled a set of Azure cloud and AI services supplied to a unit inside Israel’s Ministry of Defence after an internal review concluded there was evidence supporting elements of investigative reporting that alleged Microsoft technology was used to store and analyze mass...
Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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Microsoft has begun rolling out Gaming Copilot — an AI-powered, in‑overlay assistant for players — into Windows 11 via the Xbox Game Bar, bringing voice-first help, screenshot-aware guidance, achievement tracking, and personalized recommendations directly into the play session.
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Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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