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The debate Kepler Cheuvreux set out in its note—“Is AI truly a boon for the entire IT industry, or could it also be a curse?”—captures a growing fault line across technology markets: enormous, record-breaking infrastructure and R&D spending is colliding with an unsettled monetization pathway and...

Satya Nadella’s blunt acknowledgement — “I think we can do better, and we will do better” — landed during an unusually tense internal town hall and has become the most visible signal yet that Microsoft’s leadership recognizes a widening credibility gap with its workforce. The admission followed...

Rust’s orange crab may be cute, but the language it represents is reshaping engineering decisions at the deepest levels of modern software: from browsers and kernels to cloud services and consumer devices. At RustConf 2025 the community celebrated a decade since Rust’s 1.0 release while also...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission that Microsoft must “rebuild trust” with its workforce landed at the center of a turbulent week for the company, as months of large-scale workforce reductions and a newly tightened return-to-office policy collided with employee activism and questions about...

Microsoft’s latest Microsoft Store update for Windows Insiders quietly widens the gateway between the Store, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and publishers’ app ecosystems—adding Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents to the Store’s AI Hub and making it easier to launch and manage apps that are “provided and...

Microsoft has pushed a coordinated set of Windows 11 Insider Preview builds into the Dev, Beta, and Release Preview channels, bringing the near‑final 25H2 activation and a raft of AI, accessibility, and usability tweaks that IT teams and power users should validate now. (blogs.windows.com)...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...

Matt Hobbs of PwC argues that business transformation built around cloud, data, and AI must be outcomes-first, and that the practical work of modernization — decomposing legacy logic, addressing technical debt, and building an integration fabric he calls Agent OS — is what separates pilot...

AI presentation tools are finally good enough to be genuinely useful—but the right pick depends on whether you need seamless PowerPoint integration, fast template-driven output, team collaboration, or tight control over data visualization and compliance. Background / Overview The last two years...

ProsperOps’s announcement that it won a 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category underscores how FinOps automation has moved from niche optimization tooling into the mainstream cloud infrastructure conversation, but the recognition also raises important questions about claims...

The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...

Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...

Microsoft’s internal AI strategy has entered a new phase: after years of leaning on OpenAI for frontier models and privileged cloud access, the company is investing to build its own large-scale compute — including a dedicated AI chip cluster and first-party foundation models — as part of a...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a significant step toward turning text prompts into fully produced audio, introducing native speech generation powered by Microsoft AI’s new MAI-Voice-1 model and exposed today to users through Copilot Labs’ audio modes. The capability converts scripts into...

AuditDashboard’s Version 8.0 arrives as a major platform milestone, delivering deeper Microsoft 365 integrations — including in‑browser Office previews and direct access to Microsoft Copilot — alongside a rebuilt architecture and expanded API surface that together aim to make PBC workflows...

Microsoft’s internal account of how Teams has evolved into an AI-first collaboration platform reads less like a product update and more like a blueprint for how large organizations will work in the next decade: Teams as the connective tissue, AI agents as the operational workforce, and Copilot...

Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...

Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...

Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...

Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and...