digital transformation

Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company. Background Microsoft’s...

Virginia Briggs, chief executive of Australia’s MinterEllison, says she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot “for every task, every day,” and the firm’s experience — from boardroom demos to bespoke legal drafting tools — offers an early, high‑profile case study of what enterprise generative AI looks like...

New Era Technology’s pitch — that the gulf between opportunity and capability in the Middle East’s digital economy is closing — is no longer just marketing copy; it’s a blueprint for how regional enterprises can modernize ERP, accelerate user adoption, and begin to harness generative AI across...

OpenAI and Microsoft have quietly signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding that lays the groundwork for OpenAI to restructure its commercial arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) while preserving the nonprofit oversight that has defined the organization since its founding — a...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

The Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has quietly ushered in a new digital era for welfare delivery — combining an AI chat agent, a secure citizen portal and a cloud analytics stack built on Microsoft Azure technologies — a package that Microsoft says now helps roughly 100,000 people a...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...

Louisville’s new push into municipal artificial intelligence is not vague ambition — it’s a pragmatic, budgeted experiment that starts with staffing, short pilots, and a tight measurement plan designed to prove value or stop wasted spending quickly. Background Mayor Craig Greenberg included a...

Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep. Background /...

Purdue University Northwest’s IT reminder is a timely, practical warning: Microsoft has scheduled Windows 10 end‑of‑support for October 14, 2025, and campus machines must be upgraded to Windows 11 or replaced — older hardware that cannot meet Windows 11 requirements will need to be retired or...

Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...

Microsoft’s renewed public‑sector push in South Africa is more than a sponsorship line on an events page — it’s the visible axis of a multi‑year strategy that mixes heavy infrastructure spending, deep skilling partnerships, and product‑level integrations that together aim to reshape how...

Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...

Chevron Nigeria’s reported migration of more than 3,000 users from Windows 10 to Windows 11 in just 12 weeks — completed 40% faster than previous rollouts and returning a reported 98% user satisfaction rate — is a practical blueprint for large-scale enterprise upgrades in Nigeria and beyond...

Pittsburgh companies are being asked to treat change not as a periodic challenge but as an ongoing business condition—an expectation now baked into strategy, talent, finance and security decisions—and the practical playbook local leaders are using to stay afloat increasingly mixes rapid...

NetHope’s new Unlocking AI for Nonprofits program — delivered with support from Microsoft and hosted on the Kaya learning platform — gives frontline nonprofit teams a short, free, CPD‑certified path into practical generative AI skills, with two hands‑on 90‑minute modules that focus on prompt...

San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...

Thanks — I can do a few different things with that RSM piece (summarize it, rewrite it as a WindowsForum.com feature, produce an in‑depth analysis, etc.). Which would you like? Options I can do next (pick one or tell me another): Write a full WindowsForum.com feature (≈2,000+ words...

Canadian universities are no longer debating whether to engage with generative artificial intelligence — they are designing how to manage it. In the last 18 months a clear pattern has emerged across Canada’s major campuses: centrally provisioned, enterprise-grade AI tools such as Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer an experiment you can buy and forget; it’s a capability that demands the same programmatic rigor as ERP, CRM, or any other enterprise-grade system if organizations want predictable ROI and real, sustained change. Background: why Copilot adoption matters now...