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Westpac has begun rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, giving cross‑functional teams the tools to design, publish and scale generative‑AI agents that can sit inside Microsoft 365, Teams and customer‑facing channels—part of a broader push by the bank to industrialise AI...

Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...

Microsoft has set a hard deadline: Windows 10 will stop receiving free security updates on October 14, 2025, and every day that passes between now and that date increases the urgency for millions of households and businesses to act — whether by upgrading, enrolling in extended protection, or...

Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...

Microsoft’s lifecycle clock is now glaringly visible for many organizations: support for several Windows releases will stop within months, and the window for action is short enough that CIOs, IT managers, and school IT directors must move from planning to execution now. A recent lifecycle...

Thai in‑house counsel and litigation teams face a 2025 inflection point: generative AI has moved from experimental “time‑saver” to a regulated, business‑critical toolset that must be evaluated for PDPA compliance, explainability, and defensibility before it is used on client matters. The Nucamp...

Satya Nadella’s admission that Microsoft “can do better” — made in the wake of sweeping layoffs, a newly enforced return-to-office policy, and a widening employee protest movement over the company’s cloud work — is the clearest public acknowledgment yet that the tech giant faces a crisis of...

Google Cloud’s surprise decision to waive certain multicloud data‑transfer fees across the European Union and the United Kingdom has the potential to rewire the commercial logic of cloud strategy in Europe, but it also exposes a complex web of technical, contractual, and regulatory questions...

Microsoft has quietly expanded the Second Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience (SCOOBE) in Windows 11 Insider builds so it can surface a full‑screen reminder when a Microsoft 365 subscription “needs attention” — for example, when a renewal payment fails — and that reminder can appear before the desktop...

OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...

Anthropic has rolled out an optional Memory capability for Claude that is now available to Team and Enterprise plan customers, enabling the assistant to retain and recall project- and work-related context across sessions while giving admins and users controls to view, edit, and disable what the...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

The past two weeks produced a concentrated wave of regulatory, market and technology developments that materially change how companies must prepare for credible sustainability disclosure: ESRS simplification and CSRD readiness are accelerating, consumer and competition authorities are...

Microsoft's decade-long desktop workhorse is entering its final weeks of mainstream servicing as Microsoft winds down Windows 10 and prepares to stop issuing routine updates and quality-of-life fixes ahead of the platform's end-of-support deadline on October 14, 2025. This transition is not a...

Norway’s legal profession is at a decisive inflection point: by combining strict, fjord‑tested data protection rules with a newly modernised Lawyer Act, Norwegian firms can safely harvest huge productivity gains from generative AI — but only if they pick tools and deployment patterns that...

WP Engine’s announcement that it is launching its enterprise platform in the United Arab Emirates — enabling customers across the Gulf to run managed WordPress workloads on Microsoft Azure in Dubai — is a material expansion for enterprise WordPress hosting in the region and a pragmatic answer to...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot Studio updates push AI deeper into the everyday mechanics of business by letting agents make routine approval decisions inside multistage workflows — automating rule-driven steps while keeping humans in the loop for exceptions and final sign‑off. Background / Overview...

Microsoft’s October deadline for Windows 10 support has arrived like a ringing bell for an industry that—by several measures—wasn’t ready: large numbers of consumer and corporate endpoints still run Windows 10, many organisations face compatibility and budget constraints, and the safety net...

StatCounter’s August 2025 snapshot produced a deceptively simple headline — Windows 11 slipped below 50% of desktop Windows installations while Windows 10 regained ground — but the data behind that headline, and what it means for users and IT teams as Windows 10 support ends in October, require...