regulatory compliance

As organizations race to exploit generative AI and broaden their third‑party ecosystems, a startling pattern is emerging: mass adoption without adequate visibility is creating a cascade of security, compliance, and financial risks that many firms are poorly equipped to handle. New survey data...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

The last six weeks have crystallised a new reality for corporate sustainability in the Asia‑Pacific: regulators and standard‑setters are pushing to make climate and sustainability disclosures more consistent, but they are also practically tempering timelines and adding implementation scaffolding...

As the calendar races toward October 14, 2025, a striking and inconvenient truth has emerged: a very large portion of the global PC installed base is still running Windows 10, even as Microsoft prepares to stop issuing free security updates and feature patches for that OS. PC makers, market...

Klinikum Landsberg am Lech has cut the time clinicians spend on paperwork dramatically by using an Azure OpenAI–based transcription and documentation pipeline that captures clinical conversations in real time and pushes structured notes directly into the hospital information system...

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG Göttingen) has moved from proof‑of‑concept to production by expanding its deployment of Sectra’s enterprise imaging technology to include the Sectra Amplifier Service, a managed AI‑as‑a‑service hosted in Microsoft Azure that integrates validated third‑party AI...

Infobip’s expanded integration with Microsoft Azure Communication Services (ACS) pushes global SMS reach into new territory, making carrier-grade messaging available through Azure for well over 100 additional countries and unlocking broader international coverage, two‑way messaging, and...

Microsoft's Xbox division has quietly begun nudging UK players to prove they are adults — and made clear that failure to do so will blunt the console's social engines beginning in early 2026, a direct consequence of the UK's Online Safety Act and the regulator's demand for "highly effective" age...

Microsoft Azure Communication Services has opened the door for truly global SMS by adding a partner-led routing layer — Messaging Connect — and Infobip is the first partner to bring carrier-grade, cross-border SMS into that pipeline, instantly extending Azure’s SMS footprint into dozens of new...

On August 24, 1995, Microsoft unleashed a consumer operating system that would reshape everyday computing, not just as a technical milestone but as a cultural event: Windows 95 combined a sweeping user-interface overhaul, aggressive marketing and architectural changes that together accelerated...

0patch’s decision to “security-adopt” Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 2019 — and to package that commitment into new paid plans — reshapes the post‑end‑of‑support landscape for millions of users who either can’t or won’t migrate to Microsoft 365 or Windows 11 before Microsoft’s October 14, 2025...

The arrival of generative AI and integrated assistants like Microsoft Copilot has turned Human Resources from a back‑office administrative function into a strategic partner — promising faster recruiting, personalized onboarding, smarter people analytics and dramatic time savings, but also...

Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date for Windows 10—October 14, 2025—has pushed local managed‑IT providers into high gear, warning businesses that failure to prepare will increase security exposure, complicate compliance, and make future hardware purchases more expensive and time consuming...

LinkedIn’s pivot to paying creators is already reshaping the B2B advertising playbook—and the move could be one of the clearest strategic accelerants for Microsoft’s ad and cloud ecosystem this decade. The thesis is simple: by turning professional content into a monetizable, creator-driven feed...

The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...

Chemist Warehouse has quietly added a digital colleague to its HR team — an AI assistant named AIHRA that drafts responses to hundreds of routine HR queries each week, reshaping how the retail pharmacy giant manages volume, preserves specialist time, and rethinks talent retention across a...

Zscaler’s claim that its cloud sees “over half a trillion transactions a day” has suddenly become more than a brag about scale — it’s the center of a fresh privacy controversy after external reports and researcher commentary interpreted CEO remarks to mean Zscaler is using customer logs and full...

Let’s be blunt: the clock is ticking on Windows 10, and senior living executives who treat this as “an IT problem” risk turning a predictable technology lifecycle event into an operational, regulatory, and reputational crisis. Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025, and that...

Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions...

A security researcher’s routine Copilot query revealed a startling blind spot in Microsoft’s logging: under certain prompts, Copilot could return file summaries without leaving the expected Purview audit entry — and, according to the researcher, Microsoft quietly rolled out a fix without issuing...