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Microsoft president Brad Smith’s compact public line — “some of what was reported needs to be tested” — is the latest punctuation in a rapidly escalating crisis for Azure, Microsoft’s relationships with the Israeli security establishment, and the cloud industry’s role in wartime intelligence and...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

Atturra’s latest Microsoft milestone and its sovereign private‑cloud expansion mark a calculated push to capture government and enterprise workloads that hyperscalers can’t — but the claim that it has been named “Microsoft’s first private cloud partner in Australia” requires careful...

Atturra’s recent recognition within Microsoft’s partner ecosystem marks a meaningful shift in Australia’s sovereign cloud landscape, but the headline — that Atturra is “Microsoft’s first Private Cloud Solution Partner in Australia” — deserves careful parsing and verification before it becomes an...

Atturra’s rise through Microsoft’s partner ranks has been rapid and highly visible, with multiple outlets reporting that the Australian integrator has secured a significant new recognition in the hybrid and private cloud space — a development that, if fully verified, would strengthen its...

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...

Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full...

Microsoft has postponed the rollout of the much‑anticipated Copilot feature that would let Microsoft 365 Copilot “see” and analyze what’s being shared on a Teams meeting screen — the Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for the feature was updated to push the release into August 2026, and Microsoft says...

TÜV SÜD’s decision to fold Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Security Copilot into its global security operations marks a clear bet on AI-augmented defense: the German testing, inspection, and certification giant reports faster investigations, consistent reporting, and a rapid ramp-up for junior...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has officially earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner designation with the Certified Software for Azure badge, a formal recognition that the vendor’s SaaS planning suite has passed Microsoft’s technical, marketplace and customer‑success gates and is now...

Microsoft has folded generative AI directly into Excel’s calculation engine with a native =COPILOT() formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable outputs that recalculate automatically when the source data...

Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has secured the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, a certification that positions the vendor squarely within Microsoft’s commercial ecosystem and signals that its SaaS planning suite has met a defined set of technical...

Microsoft has opened an externally supervised inquiry into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence used a bespoke area of Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse enormous volumes of intercepted Palestinian phone calls — a development that escalates a months‑long policy, legal and...

The City of Cornwall’s recent move from a 12‑year unresolved service request to a centralized, AI‑ready case‑management platform is a lesson in pragmatic municipal digital transformation: start with a real, measurable pain point, use the tools already in place, and design governance and...

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...

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...