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Microsoft has opened a formal review into allegations that its cloud and AI technologies were used by Israeli security forces for large‑scale surveillance in Gaza and the West Bank — a development that escalates months of investigative reporting, employee protests, and policy debate about the...

Hitachi Vantara’s entry of Virtual Storage Platform One Software‑Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marks a concrete step toward simplifying hybrid cloud storage procurement and, according to vendor claims, cutting cloud storage costs substantially through...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has been recognized as a Microsoft Solutions Partner with the Certified Software for Azure designation, a formal nod that the company’s SaaS planning suite meets Microsoft’s technical and marketplace readiness standards for Azure-deployed enterprise software...

OpenAI’s India-first push with a new low-cost ChatGPT tier is reshaping the competitive landscape: on August 19, 2025 the company launched ChatGPT Go — a ₹399/month subscription that delivers access to GPT‑5-level capabilities, significantly higher usage limits, and native UPI payments — and the...

Microsoft 365 Copilot is reshaping how knowledge workers draft emails, summarize meetings, and automate tasks—but for regulated industries the productivity upside comes with a non‑negotiable requirement: auditable, defensible recordkeeping and governance. Enterprise compliance teams now face a...

Microsoft is rolling a generative AI function directly into Excel’s calculation engine — a native formula called COPILOT that lets users pass natural‑language prompts and optional grid ranges to a cloud AI model and receive live, recalculating outputs inside cells, a capability that closely...

Ricoh’s Asia Pacific unit has kicked off a region‑wide initiative to turn its people and products into a practical bridge between hardware and AI-driven productivity—announcing an internal "AI Learning Week" co‑sponsored by Microsoft and talent partner Talogy that aims to accelerate Microsoft...

Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...

Microsoft’s push to make AI the backbone of enterprise contract automation has moved from proof-of-concept to platform play, blending massive infrastructure bets, partner-led solutions, and an explicit governance narrative — all while forcing painful trade-offs across its workforce and...

Microsoft has flipped a switch that changes how the company—and millions of its customers—will think about productivity, development, and cloud AI: OpenAI’s newly announced GPT‑5 family is being rolled out across Microsoft’s Copilot portfolio, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry in what...

The UAE has quietly repositioned artificial intelligence from a technocratic experiment to a central pillar of its post‑oil economic strategy, coupling bold national targets with deep public‑private partnerships and large‑scale skilling efforts designed to seed an AI‑ready workforce across...

Microsoft’s decision to bake OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into the heart of its consumer, developer, and enterprise products is one of the most consequential platform moves in recent memory — a coordinated, cross‑product rollout that promises deeper reasoning, longer context handling, and an automated...

Microsoft’s move to put the full Windows desktop into the cloud—branded as Windows 365 and marketed around the new “Cloud PC” concept—changed how organizations and users think about Windows devices: instead of tying a personalized Windows experience to a single laptop or desktop, Microsoft...

Microsoft has opened an urgent external review after media investigations alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke area of Microsoft’s Azure cloud to collect and store immense volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications—raising fresh questions about cloud governance, data residency...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud has quietly become the focus of one of the most consequential tech-and-human-rights controversies of the decade after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit used a bespoke Azure environment to ingest, store and analyze enormous...

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...

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...

q.beyond has quietly moved from being a competent German IT service provider to one of the more visible European players shaping how small and mid-sized enterprises adopt generative AI — launching a local, sovereign AI platform, shipping a targeted Copilot plugin, and securing top-tier...

Google Cloud’s strong showing in a recent South Africa–focused survey has renewed the debate about where enterprise cloud momentum is actually flowing, but the headline — that Google Cloud “beats” Azure and AWS — needs careful qualification and context before it’s treated as a global verdict...

Microsoft's Windows Backup for Organizations has taken a major step toward mainstream deployment: reports indicate that a Release Preview build for Windows 10 (OS build 19045.6276) — surfaced under the label KB5063842 — includes the feature marked as generally available for enterprise customers...