Zoom’s AI push at Zoomtopia 2025 marks a pivot from helper tools to agentic assistants and lifelike synthetic presence — the company unveiled AI Companion 3.0, cross-platform note-taking and search, and photorealistic meeting avatars alongside a raft of video-performance upgrades intended to...
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Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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Microsoft has set a firm deadline: routine security updates, quality patches and standard technical support for mainstream Windows 10 editions will end on October 14, 2025 — forcing households, businesses and public-sector IT teams to choose between upgrading, buying temporary protection, or...
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Microsoft is rolling Copilot from an optional add‑on into a default part of the Microsoft 365 experience — automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients — a background rollout Microsoft says will begin in Fall 2025 and...
The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...
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Water is the most energy‑efficient medium for removing heat from servers, but rising scarcity and regulatory pressure mean data center designers can no longer treat freshwater as an unlimited resource; engineers must now balance the raw thermodynamic advantages of water with aggressive...
Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, feature fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 — a firm, previously announced lifecycle cutoff that leaves millions of consumer and business devices facing a clear migration deadline and a compact set of...
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LSEG’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), built in partnership with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure, has officially launched for private funds — and the platform has already facilitated its first tokenised fundraise, marking a major step toward mainstreaming tokenization across...
Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation.
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Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...
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Cloud providers’ quiet September preview windows have turned into a loud signal to enterprise IT: the next phase of cloud AI isn’t just about model accuracy — it’s about network isolation, governance, flexible deployment, and measurable quality controls that let generative AI move safely from...
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Microsoft will begin installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app automatically on Windows devices that already have the Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a background rollout that starts this fall and is expected to reach completion by mid‑November — but it won’t happen for devices in the European...
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CBIZ today announced the commercial launch of Vertical Vector AI™, a new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence platform aimed at accelerating AI adoption in middle-market businesses by combining secure integration with existing Microsoft ecosystems, workflow-oriented features, and a...
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Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...
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Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
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Microsoft’s countdown is now unambiguous: on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop providing routine security updates, quality fixes, and standard technical support for Windows 10, version 22H2 (Home, Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions). Background
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Microsoft’s countdown clock is now real: with just weeks to go until Microsoft stops issuing security updates and routine support for Windows 10, organisations and home users face a concrete deadline — October 14, 2025 — and must act now to avoid rising exposure and operational disruption...
Microsoft is embedding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft 365 desktop apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — as a persistent, content‑aware sidebar that brings AI assistance to the place people actually work, reducing copy/paste, manual uploads, and app switching while...
Law firms are racing to adopt artificial intelligence tools—but the move from pilot projects and individual experimentation to firm‑wide, governed production deployments remains the exception rather than the rule, driven less by model capability than by the legal profession’s special duties...
Law firms have embraced artificial intelligence enthusiastically, moving from curiosity and pilots into widespread experimentation—but the leap from scattered use to fully governed, firm‑wide deployment remains rare, constrained not by model ingenuity but by the legal profession’s obligations...