governance

  1. Frontier Firms on Azure: Scale Agentic AI with a Modern Cloud Core

    The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across...
  2. COPILOT in Excel: On-Grid AI Formulas, Quotas, and Governance

    Microsoft has added a first‑class Excel function named COPILOT — an equals‑sign‑style formula that lets users call Copilot directly from the grid, pass natural‑language prompts and ranges as context, and surface AI‑generated arrays and single‑cell results that recalculate with the workbook. The...
  3. Copilot in Excel: Native AI formulas for live data analysis

    Microsoft has folded a generative AI function directly into Excel’s formula engine: type =COPILOT() into a cell, give it a prompt and optional ranges, and Excel will return AI-generated results that refresh live as source data changes — a new, fully integrated way to analyze text, classify...
  4. WUSA Regression and WSUS Issues: Enterprise Patching with KIR Mitigations

    Microsoft has pushed a targeted rollback and policy fixes to repair a Windows Update Standalone Installer (WUSA) regression that could break .msu installations when run from network shares and disrupt enterprise update pipelines that rely on WSUS, SCCM, or scripted WUSA deployment. d delivery...
  5. Microsoft AI Contract Automation: Azure Copilot Platform for Enterprise Procurement

    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...
  6. Ricoh AI Learning Week: Driving Copilot Adoption in Asia-Pacific

    Ricoh Asia Pacific’s internal push to make its workforce “future-ready” — anchored by a week-long, hands-on AI upskilling sprint co-sponsored by Microsoft and Talogy — signals a new phase in how hardware-first vendors are repositioning themselves as platform and services companies that sell...
  7. AI in the Workplace 2025: Copilots, Productivity, Governance & Upskilling

    By 2025, artificial intelligence has moved from the edges of enterprise dreams into the center of the daily work routine, changing not just how tasks are completed but how organizations structure roles, measure value, and define productivity. Background / Overview AI’s penetration into the...
  8. Power Pages Studio: Build AI Copilot Agents from Forms with Dataverse CRUD

    Microsoft’s Power Pages now lets makers build AI agents from a selected form inside Power Pages Studio and push them into Microsoft Copilot Studio for customization — complete with CRUD access to Dataverse, optional file-upload data extraction, and a refreshed multi-agent chat widget for site...
  9. HGF Transforms Data Estate with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI

    HGF has begun a major overhaul of its data estate, choosing Microsoft Fabric as the technical foundation and Microsoft Power BI for reporting, with Simpson Associates engaged to lead platform design, implementation and dashboard delivery—a move that aims to replace fragmented legacy reporting...
  10. ProRail Deploys SAP S/4HANA on Azure with Capgemini: Cloud ERP Modernization

    Capgemini’s delivery of SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure for ProRail marks a compact, pragmatic leap for the Dutch rail infrastructure body — a fast, cloud-first ERP modernization that promises improved user experience, greater scalability, and a platform for continued digital transformation while...
  11. Copilot Agents for Policing: Automating Workflows with Microsoft Copilot

    CPS’s pitch — that outcome-focused AI agents built on Microsoft Copilot can shrink paperwork, speed investigations and put more officers back on the street — arrives at a moment when policing is hungry for tangible efficiency gains and painfully wary of unproven AI experiments. The company will...
  12. Chainlink as Cloud-Scale Web3 Infrastructure: Is AWS-Style Valuation Real?

    Chainlink’s sudden re‑entry into the crypto conversation — framed by a high‑profile analyst as this cycle’s “most obvious” large‑cap jackpot and compared rhetorically to AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud — is the kind of narrative that moves markets and sparks debate, but it also demands...
  13. Dreamspace on Base: AI-Powered No-Code On-Chain DApps with Verifiable Data

    A new on‑chain app builder called Dreamspace is rolling out on Base with heavy Microsoft AI integration—promising to turn plain‑English ideas into deployable decentralized apps by combining Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI for generation, Space and Time’s ZK‑provable SQL for verifiable data...
  14. Gemini-powered image editing in Slides & Vids: Replace background and expand

    Google has rolled Gemini-powered image editing directly into Google Slides and Google Vids, adding two AI tools — Replace background and Background expansion — that let users swap or extend image backgrounds with text prompts and intelligent outpainting. The features aim to help non-designers...
  15. LibreOffice: Is OOXML a Deliberate Lock-In Scheme?

    LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world...
  16. Windows Ambient, Agentic, Multimodal AI: The Future OS

    Microsoft’s latest public remarks about the direction of Windows — voiced by Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft’s VP of Windows and Devices, and echoed by OS-security lead David Weston — sketch a future operating system that is ambient, agentic, and multimodal: one that sees what’s on your screen...
  17. Windows 11 AI-First: Multimodal, On-Device Models and Cloud Orchestration

    One week after Microsoft released its short “vision” video for the future of Windows, Pavan Davuluri — the executive directly responsible for Windows product development — laid out, in clear and practical terms, how on-device AI, multimodal inputs, and cloud orchestration will reshape the...
  18. Generative AI for Permitting: Accelerating Clean-Energy Approvals

    A Microsoft Garage hackathon prototype has graduated into a commercial workstream that uses generative AI to attack permitting bottlenecks across nuclear, renewable, mining, and grid projects — a practical, high-stakes application of AI that could materially shorten the time and cost of getting...
  19. Is LINK the Web3 Cloud Backbone? Chainlink’s Breakout, Staking and Valuation Debate

    Chainlink’s recent price action and an unusually emphatic analyst narrative have thrust the oracle network back into the mainstream crypto debate, with some market commentators now arguing LINK is this cycle’s “most obvious” large‑cap crypto jackpot — a claim framed by a provocative comparison...
  20. JSON-Driven Long-Form AI Video for Finance: Governance & Compliance at Scale

    AI tools that once produced short clips or basic explainer reels are now capable of assembling entire long-form videos from structured, machine-readable prompts — and a new crop of free tools that accept detailed JSON prompts is making that capability far more accessible to creators, marketers...