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...
Microsoft’s latest moves to decouple Teams from its flagship productivity suites mark a watershed moment in how dominant software vendors respond to regulatory pressure — and could redraw the economic map for collaboration tools, enterprise procurement, and platform integration worldwide. The...
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IFA 2025 made one thing unavoidably clear: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental sidebar at trade shows — it’s the main stage. From conversational TV companions to penguin-like domesticated robots and a self‑flushing cat toilet that promises to log your pet’s health metrics, AI...
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Microsoft's latest commitments to the Presidential AI Challenge mark one of the most consequential public‑private pushes to integrate generative AI into American classrooms, community colleges, and federal operations — a coordinated package that pairs free product access, training pathways, and...
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Microsoft’s new OneGov agreement with the General Services Administration promises to make Microsoft 365 Copilot effectively free for qualifying federal customers while folding deep discounts across Azure, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and security tooling into a government‑wide purchasing vehicle...
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California’s new statewide AI education initiative — a public‑private push that ropes in Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and other major vendors to deliver free AI courses, tools and credentials to millions of learners — marks one of the most ambitious attempts by any U.S. state to fold artificial...
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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...
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Microsoft’s DocumentDB — the open, PostgreSQL‑backed document database Microsoft launched earlier this year — has formally moved under the stewardship of the Linux Foundation, a shift that promises broader vendor neutrality, a clearer governance model, and a path toward an open standard for...
GIMP 3.1.2 arrives as more than a routine development build. It’s the first waypoint on the march to GIMP 3.2, stacking substantive new features on top of the landmark 3.0 release earlier this year and signaling where the project is headed next. For Windows creatives who split time between...
Board has formally earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with the Certified Software for Azure badge for its Enterprise Planning Platform, a move that cements the vendor’s deeper technical and commercial alignment with Microsoft and signals a new phase of Azure-native deployment...
Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform has been recognized as a Microsoft Solutions Partner with the Certified Software for Azure designation, a formal nod that the company’s SaaS planning suite meets Microsoft’s technical and marketplace readiness standards for Azure-deployed enterprise software...
On a Windows box I reach for a Linux shell first — not because Windows tooling is broken, but because the Unix-style command line gives me the fastest, most portable path from idea to execution. That preference, which many readers will recognize from long years of using bash, zsh, or other...
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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...
Microsoft’s Copilot 3D is a browser-based Labs experiment that converts a single JPG or PNG photo into a downloadable, editable GLB 3D model in seconds — a free, low-friction bridge from flat images to usable 3D assets that is already reshaping how hobbyists, educators, indie developers, and...
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The Police Digital Service has launched the National Police Capabilities Environment (NPCE), an assured Microsoft Azure–based cloud platform intended to host, manage and scale national policing IT solutions across the UK, marking a deliberate step toward a multi‑cloud operational model that sits...
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The digital transformation sweeping across industries today is fundamentally reshaping how we conceive and manage the spaces in which we live, work, and learn. Buildings of the future, promised for decades, are at last beginning to transition beyond passive structures into dynamic, adaptive...
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The ongoing evolution of digital collaboration platforms has defined a transformative era in workplace communication, with Microsoft Teams standing out as one of the most influential players in this landscape. Over the past several years, Teams has rapidly grown from a nascent entrant into a...
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As the digital transformation of the built environment accelerates, the flow and accessibility of Internet of Things (IoT) data from commercial buildings, campuses, and data centers has moved from cutting-edge innovation to business-critical infrastructure. Yet, many enterprises still grapple...
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The strategic partnership between Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Microsoft marks a pivotal advancement in the quest to streamline Internet of Things (IoT) data within the built environment, with the ultimate aim of transforming how commercial buildings, campuses, and data centers optimize...
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As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to redefine the dynamics of building management, a pivotal development is unfolding through the newly announced collaboration between Siemens Smart Infrastructure and Microsoft. With the intention of demolishing long-standing data silos, their...
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