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    Microsoft Expands Office 365 AI with Anthropic Models, Diversifying Copilot

    Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s models into Office 365 represents a deliberate, high-stakes recalibration of its AI supply chain — one that pares dependence on a single vendor, broadens technical options inside Copilot features, and reshapes enterprise risk calculations for productivity...
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    Undo OneDrive Backup in Windows 11: Move Folders Back Local

    Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...
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    Enterprise AI Copilots: Balancing UX, Ecosystems and Security for CIOs

    Thanks to OpenAI’s early consumer push, the generative AI era that reshaped work life began in plain sight — and business users have kept voting with their keyboards. What started as a viral consumer tool has become a persistent presence inside enterprises, while legacy software vendors and...
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    Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: Product-driven in-house AI strategy

    Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. (theverge.com)...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Arrives in OneDrive for Windows: File Explorer AI Actions

    Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
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    UK Government PoC: Power Platform Accesses AWS Data Without Duplication via Private Multi-Cloud

    A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that...
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    Austria Launches Microsoft 365 ADR and Multi-Geo with Local Cloud Region

    Microsoft has switched on Microsoft 365 data-residency controls in Austria, bringing both the Microsoft 365 Advanced Data Residency (ADR) add‑on and Multi‑Geo capabilities to commercial customers in the country and pairing those controls with a newly opened local cloud region that Microsoft says...
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    AI for HR: Copilot, Governance, and Real-World Outcomes

    Generative AI is rapidly moving from experimental pilots into day‑to‑day HR operations, and Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem — together with specialist vendors and regional HR platforms — is already being used to automate recruiting, personalize onboarding, and surface people analytics, even as...
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    Multicloud Personalities 2025: AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for IT Leaders

    Title: A practical guide to the multicloud personalities of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — what IT leaders should know in 2025 Lead The three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) — all provide the raw building blocks enterprises expect: VMs...
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    Hotels at the AI Crossroads: Guarding Guest Data Without Stifling Innovation

    Hotels face a crossroads: artificial intelligence promises smarter personalization and leaner operations, but when guest names, preferences or booking histories are casually copy-pasted into public chatbots the consequences can be legal, financial and reputational — as Amsterdam-based middleware...
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    Cloud Giants as Web3 Gatekeepers: Alibaba, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure

    The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...
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    Windows Backup for Organizations: Tenant-Bound User Settings Restore at OOBE

    Microsoft's new Windows Backup for Organizations landed in Microsoft’s enterprise rollout this summer, promising a way for managed tenants to preserve a user’s Windows settings and Microsoft Store app list in the cloud and replay that state automatically during device enrollment — but it is...
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    SAP Brings AI to Brazil: ERP Copilot in AWS & Microsoft Regions

    SAP’s decision to host a flagship AI-enabled business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in Brazil marks a clear escalation of enterprise AI efforts — a move that combines SAP’s application footprint with hyperscaler scale and local data residency, while rewriting...
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    Microsoft launches external review over Azure-based Palestinian data surveillance

    Microsoft has opened a formal, externally supervised review into allegations that its Azure cloud was used to store and process vast quantities of intercepted Palestinian communications — a probe that elevates a months‑long ethics and policy crisis inside the company into an urgent legal...
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    CellTrust SL2 for Teams: AppSource Launch for Mobile Message Compliance

    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...
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