governance

Redaction automation is quietly becoming one of the most consequential — and immediately practical — AI use cases in government, and Simpson Associates’ RedactXpert is now a textbook example of how targeted AI can deliver measurable operational gains while fitting inside existing Microsoft cloud...

More than half of the world’s personal computers remain on Windows 10 with just weeks to go before Microsoft’s scheduled end-of-support date, according to a dataset Kaspersky shared via a Technology For You write-up — a situation that tightens the window for safe, budgeted migrations and forces...

Microsoft's new OneGov arrangement with the General Services Administration (GSA) hands federal agencies a fast lane into the AI era: Microsoft 365 Copilot will be offered at no cost for an initial period to qualifying government customers, while steep, government‑wide discounts across Azure...

Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers...

Microsoft's message is blunt: Windows 10 will stop receiving official security and technical updates on October 14, 2025, and users who delay migration risk an increasing security, compliance, and operational exposure that will grow more dangerous with each month after the cutoff. What began as...

Satya Nadella’s short public playbook — five repeatable prompts he says he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — has done more than offer productivity tips; it has shown, in blunt practice, how an enterprise copilot can change the mechanics of leadership, reduce busywork and compress decision...

Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have struck a sweeping OneGov agreement that puts Microsoft’s cloud and AI stack — including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure services, Dynamics 365, and security tooling — on preferential terms for federal agencies, with Microsoft and GSA...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffered a widespread service disruption on September 3, 2025, that left thousands of users unable to see responses in the Conversations web UI and sparked an immediate wave of troubleshooting, vendor-switching and enterprise planning conversations across technical communities...

Microsoft has pushed Microsoft 365 Copilot deeper into the employee experience by making Copilot for Viva Engage generally available to eligible customers, embedding a context-aware generative AI assistant that summarizes conversations, surfaces trends, improves discoverability, and provides...

Microsoft’s backing of TealWaters crystallizes a simple, urgent idea: make the invisible visible. By pairing the Wetland Intrinsic Potential (WIP) approach with cloud-scale processing and modern machine learning, the collaboration aims to reveal wetlands that legacy maps miss—especially small...

Azure’s argument is stark but simple: it’s no longer a question of whether teams can build AI agents—the real battle is how quickly and reliably they can move from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment. Background The pace of agent development has accelerated from lab experiments to...

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...

When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...

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...

Australian Data Centres’ new hires mark a decisive pivot from a single-site, Canberra-focused operator to an ambitious, nationally scaled provider positioning itself for sovereign, AI-ready, and hyperscale workloads. Background / Overview Australian Data Centres (ADC) — a privately owned...

Satya Nadella has publicly shared five practical GPT‑5 prompts he uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot — a short, replicable playbook that turns Copilot from a drafting tool into what he describes as “a new layer of intelligence” across meetings, project oversight, risk spotting, and stakeholder...

Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a...

Lyft CEO David Risher’s recent public praise for Oura Ring, Starbucks, and Microsoft lands at a moment when Microsoft itself has signaled a major strategic pivot — shipping its first in‑house MAI models and doubling down on an AI‑centric infrastructure plan that changes the calculus for Copilot...

Navatar’s new release promises a purpose-built, AI-powered CRM designed for M&A advisory teams that automatically captures emails, meetings, messages and documents, surfaces relationship intelligence inside the tools bankers already use (Outlook and Slack), and runs generative AI workflows on...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly taken a big step toward true multi-document reasoning: recent hands‑on reports and company disclosures show the assistant on Windows 11 and the web can now synthesize information across multiple uploaded files in a single request, enabling workflows that...