OpenAI and Anthropic launched dueling model updates on the same day, and the result is a sharpened frontline in the AI wars — one where Microsoft, long enmeshed with OpenAI, now finds itself awkwardly wedged between rival architectures, competing commercial strategies, and a rapidly changing...
Microsoft’s message from Davos this year is blunt but optimistic: AI and sustainability are not competing priorities but two sides of the same transformation coin—if leaders design AI programs with operational rigor, cloud-native efficiency, and governance baked in from the start.
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Companies that still run critical workloads on systems designed for a slower, pre-cloud world are paying a hidden tax in agility, security and cash — and Microsoft Azure, together with Microsoft’s modern identity and security stack, is positioned as a practical path off that treadmill if...
Cognizant says it will buy 3Cloud — a move the companies describe as a strategic leap to create a global Azure‑first AI services powerhouse — but public verification of the deal and several headline claims remains limited, so the market should treat the announcement with cautious interest rather...
Support for Windows 10 ended on October 14, 2025, and that deadline is now the practical fulcrum driving enterprise decisions about security, compliance, device lifecycle and the next wave of end‑user computing modernisation.
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Microsoft’s official lifecycle calendar put a...
NVIDIA and OpenAI sit at the center of a modern AI circuit: one builds the engines that turn raw silicon into neural computation, the other writes the blueprints that run on them — together they form the infrastructure layer most startups, enterprises, and investors now assume will be there when...
VoiceGate and the “Make in Vietnam” moment: how a Vietnamese voice‑AI stack is reshaping insurance compliance — and why cloud choice matters
By WindowsForum editorial team — 24 September 2025
TL;DR — Vietnam’s NamiTech (aka Nami Technology) has built VoiceGate, a voice‑biometrics +...
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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A new Principled Technologies (PT) study—distributed as a press release via EIN Presswire and reported on partner channels—claims that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost for enterprise AI projects...
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Nvidia’s recent reshaping of its cloud strategy — pivoting DGX Cloud toward a partner-driven marketplace called DGX Cloud Lepton while repurposing portions of its owned fleet for internal R&D — has set off a debate: did that move effectively hand a competitive edge to hyperscalers (Amazon Web...
Microsoft’s end-of-support deadline for Windows 10 is now a hard operational milestone that forces businesses to choose: migrate to Windows 11, buy time with Extended Security Updates, or reorganize infrastructure to reduce risk — and the decisions made in the next months will shape security...
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Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...
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KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
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Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...
Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background
For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first world...
Nvidia’s quiet retreat from a direct cloud play marks a meaningful strategic pivot: DGX Cloud — once pitched as NVIDIA’s own AI supercomputer service for enterprises — is being repurposed largely as internal infrastructure, while the company leans into a marketplace model (DGX Cloud Lepton) that...
Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...
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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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Microsoft’s Office 365 product line is poised for a material AI shift: sources say Redmond will begin routing certain Copilot and Office features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a move that reflects both...
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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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