Multi‑vendor AI strategies promised a new era of vendor competition and lower prices for enterprise software — but the early evidence shows the opposite: rising software bills, unpredictable budgets, and a shifting cost base that rewards cloud infrastructure owners more than application vendors...
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Microsoft’s move to fold Anthropic’s Claude models into Office 365 marks a clear turning point in the company’s AI strategy: after years of heavy reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft is now building a multi-vendor, task‑optimized Copilot that mixes Anthropic, OpenAI, and its own in‑house models to...
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The digital transformation landscape is witnessing a pivotal shift as Microsoft unveils a sweeping suite of AI agent interoperability products underpinned by its enthusiastic adoption of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, these rollouts reflect not only...
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