As global enterprise technology enters its AI-powered era, Microsoft’s domination of this space is looking less like a cyclical high and more like the emergence of a new digital order. The most recent data from Morgan Stanley’s Q2 2025 CIO survey does more than validate Microsoft’s strategic...
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In the rapidly evolving world of enterprise technology, the friction between industry giants is shaping not just the future of software, but the trajectory of innovation itself. Recent comments from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, as reported by IT Pro, have cast a renewed spotlight on Microsoft’s...
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Microsoft’s licensing practices for running its software on public cloud platforms, especially non-Microsoft clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and others, have come under intense scrutiny due to complaints that these licensing terms unfairly protect Microsoft’s own Azure...