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The microsoft marketplace tag on WindowsForum.com covers announcements and analysis of new listings and partnerships within Microsoft's commercial cloud marketplace. Recent discussions highlight vendors like Deel, RealAccretive, and Commvault joining the marketplace, with a focus on how these additions affect enterprise procurement, Azure consumption commitments, and cyber resilience. Threads examine the strategic implications of native Azure ISV services, the credibility of partner security claims, and the practical benefits for IT buyers using Azure and Microsoft 365. The tag serves as a resource for understanding marketplace dynamics, vendor positioning, and the evolving role of marketplace billing in cloud strategy.
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    Askpolly Joins Microsoft Copilot Cowork: Data Governance Questions for Dynamics 365 and Power BI

    Askpolly, an Ottawa-based market-research company, says it has plugged its social-media research platform into Microsoft Copilot Cowork. Research Live reported the news on October 9, 2026. The company's own announcement went out on October 1. For admins who run Dynamics 365, Power BI and...
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    Microsoft Azure AI Startup Co-Sell: Requirements, $8K Spend Threshold and 120-Day Validation

    Microsoft's startup team has a new answer to the investor question "what's your moat?" The answer: the model isn't the moat, and what you earn inside the customer is. The pitch comes from Heena Purohit, Director of AI Startups at Microsoft for Startups. Her October 8 essay is vendor thought...
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    SAS AI Navigator on Microsoft Marketplace: Entra ID Requirements, Pricing and AI Governance

    SAS has put its AI governance product on Microsoft Marketplace. SAS AI Navigator was announced as available on October 5, 2026, and is meant to help AI, data, compliance and risk leaders "bring order to AI chaos." For Microsoft-centric IT teams, the useful questions are what the product is, what...
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    Hexaware MISA Claim Lacks Verified Marketplace Security Offer

    Hexaware Technologies says it has joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association, or MISA, positioning its Azure and Microsoft 365 security services alongside Microsoft’s partner security ecosystem. But the announcement circulating on August 6 contains a material sourcing problem: the...
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    Deel Joins Microsoft Marketplace With MACC-Eligible Payroll

    Deel’s arrival in Microsoft Marketplace is more than another software listing: it gives enterprise buyers a new route to purchase global payroll, employer-of-record, and contractor-management services through procurement channels they already use for Azure and Microsoft 365. The most...
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    Microsoft Marketplace Adds RealAccretive for Auditable Apartment Pricing

    F9Analytics has introduced RealAccretive, a multifamily profit management platform positioned as a deterministic alternative to AI-driven rent and revenue management systems, with availability through Microsoft Marketplace and deployment on Microsoft Azure. The announcement arrives at a crucial...
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    Microsoft & Commvault Make Cyber Resilience a Native Azure ISV Service

    Microsoft and Commvault announced on June 24, 2026, that Commvault’s AI-enabled cyber resilience platform will be offered as a native independent software vendor service inside Microsoft Azure, with public preview expected this summer and availability through Microsoft Marketplace. The move is...
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    Microsoft Azure Native Commvault Cyber Resilience: What It Means for Backup in 2026

    Commvault announced on June 24, 2026, that Microsoft will offer Commvault’s AI and cyber resilience technologies as a native independent software vendor service on Microsoft Azure, with public preview expected this summer and procurement available through Microsoft Marketplace for eligible Azure...
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    Commvault Cloud Becomes Azure-Native ISV: Cyber Recovery Meets Marketplace Billing

    Commvault announced on June 24, 2026, that Microsoft will offer Commvault Cloud as a native independent software vendor service on Azure, with a public preview planned for this summer and procurement available through Microsoft Marketplace for eligible Azure consumption commitment customers...
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    Commvault Cloud Goes Azure-Native: New Zealand Data Sovereignty Meets Cyber Recovery

    Commvault expanded its Microsoft Azure partnership on June 24, 2026, by announcing that Commvault Cloud will become a native independent software vendor service in Azure, with a New Zealand angle tied to Microsoft’s local cloud region and data sovereignty demand. The announcement is not just...
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    Commvault Native Azure Cyber Resilience: Identity-Centered Recovery for M365 & Windows

    Commvault and Microsoft announced on June 24, 2026, that Microsoft will offer Commvault’s AI-powered cyber resilience technology as a native independent software vendor service inside Microsoft Azure for enterprise customers. The move is not just another marketplace listing with friendlier...
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    Voxpopme Insights for Microsoft Teams: Customer Research Answers in Chat

    Voxpopme announced on June 18, 2026, from Park City, Utah, that Voxpopme Insights for Microsoft Teams is now available through Microsoft Marketplace, letting Teams users query an organization’s Voxpopme research repository and receive summarized customer-backed answers inside Microsoft’s...
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    Microsoft + Global Objects: Azure-Hosted Ground Truth for Physical AI

    Global Objects announced on June 3, 2026, that it is entering a multi-year strategic collaboration with Microsoft to build an Azure-hosted, retrieval-grounded generative world model trained on licensed, multimodally scanned physical 3D objects rather than scraped internet video. The claim is not...
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    Hyland Content Innovation Cloud on Azure: Agentic AI Needs Governed Enterprise Content

    Hyland announced on June 1, 2026, that it is expanding its Microsoft partnership by bringing the Hyland Content Innovation Cloud to Microsoft Azure, pairing enterprise content management with Azure infrastructure, Microsoft Marketplace availability, and a joint go-to-market motion. The...
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    Exostar CMMC Ready Suite Now on Microsoft Marketplace for Azure-Based Compliance

    Exostar announced on June 3, 2026, in Herndon, Virginia, that its Azure-based CMMC Ready Suite is now available through Microsoft Marketplace, expanding a long-running Microsoft relationship aimed at defense contractors preparing for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification enforcement. The...
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    Exostar CMMC Ready Suite on Microsoft Marketplace for Azure-Managed Compliance

    Exostar announced on June 3, 2026, that its Azure-based CMMC Ready Suite is now available through Microsoft Marketplace, giving Defense Industrial Base suppliers a Microsoft-procured route to buy managed identity, collaboration, enclave, and virtual desktop services for CMMC compliance. The move...
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    New Relic at Microsoft Build 2026: Agents, MCP Context, and Marketplace Growth

    New Relic used Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 and 3 to promote a deeper Microsoft partnership, new Azure and GitHub integrations, and double-digit year-over-year growth in customer committed bookings through Microsoft Marketplace transactions. The announcement is less about one...
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    Hyland Content Innovation Cloud on Azure: Governed AI for Regulated Enterprise Content

    Hyland has partnered with Microsoft to make Hyland Content Innovation Cloud available on Microsoft Azure and through Microsoft Marketplace, expanding deployment options for enterprise customers that need governed content services across regions, regulated industries, and cloud environments as AI...
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    Expert.ai and Microsoft Italy Bring Governed Agentic AI to the Marketplace

    The collaboration between Expert.ai and Microsoft Italy is more than a standard channel announcement. It is a clear sign that enterprise AI in Europe is moving into a new phase: from pilots and proofs of concept to governed, production-grade deployment. By placing the EidenAI Suite on the...
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    Microsoft Marketplace Pushes AI-Native Agent Solutions Into Enterprise Procurement

    AI-native software is moving from promise to procurement, and Microsoft is trying to make that transition feel less like a science project and more like a standard enterprise buying motion. With the March 30, 2026 Marketplace blog, Microsoft is highlighting a cohort of partner solutions built...