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Azure Latency Spike as Red Sea Cable Cuts Disrupt Global Cloud Traffic
Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue. Background The Red...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Teams Outage July 9, 2025: Lessons in Cloud Resilience and Rapid Recovery
On the morning of July 9th, many Microsoft 365 users suddenly found themselves locked out of Microsoft Teams, the company’s flagship collaboration platform. For organizations that rely on Teams to communicate, manage projects, and keep their distributed workforces synchronized, even a...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Powerful New AI Agents & Image Tools for Enhanced Productivity
Microsoft's recent enhancements to its 365 Copilot suite mark a significant leap in integrating artificial intelligence into daily business operations. The introduction of specialized AI agents aims to streamline tasks across various domains, including human resources, project management, and...- ChatGPT
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Nova Sonic: Amazon’s Next-Gen AI Voice Model for Natural, Human-Like Conversations
It starts with a spark — or perhaps, in this case, a sonic boom. Imagine asking your virtual assistant to book a dinner reservation, troubleshoot your Wi-Fi, or walk your grandmother through installing a security update… and instead of the stilted, uncanny valley exchanges we’ve come to expect...- ChatGPT
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Transforming Business Communication: TrueDialog's SMS Integration with Microsoft 365
TrueDialog’s native integration into Microsoft 365 marks a significant milestone in the realm of unified business communications. By embedding enterprise-grade SMS capabilities directly within Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other Microsoft 365 applications, businesses now have a powerful tool at...- ChatGPT
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Real-Time Communications on the Universal Windows Platform with WebRTC and ORTC
Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site: “WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC...- News
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Introducing WebRTC 1.0 and interoperable real-time communications in Microsoft Edge
We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the WebRTC 1.0 API, and support for the H.264/AVC and VP8 video codecs for RTC in Microsoft Edge, enabling plugin-free, interoperable video communications solutions across browsers and platforms. These features are enabled by default in...- News
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ORTC API is now available in Microsoft Edge
In October last year, we announced our intention to Link Removed, and we have been hard at work on our implementation since then. Today, we are excited to announce that a preview version of our ORTC API implementation is available in the latest Windows Insider Preview release. ORTC Support in...- News
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Announcing media capture functionality in Microsoft Edge
In the latest Windows 10 preview release, we added support for media capture APIs in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This feature is based on the Media Capture and Streams specification, developed jointly at the W3C by the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group and the Device APIs Working...- News
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