Microsoft’s Office 365 product line is poised for a material AI shift: sources say Redmond will begin routing certain Copilot and Office features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a move that reflects both...
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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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OpenAI’s ChatGPT suffered a widespread service disruption on September 3, 2025, that left thousands of users unable to see responses in the Conversations web UI and sparked an immediate wave of troubleshooting, vendor-switching and enterprise planning conversations across technical communities...
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For decades, Microsoft’s productivity and collaboration suites have dominated enterprise IT environments across the United Kingdom. From small business networks to sprawling corporate ecosystems, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) have long advised clients to anchor their digital operations in the...
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In the evolving landscape of cloud computing, one critical security challenge remains underappreciated yet profoundly impactful: the risks of overreliance on a single cloud service provider. Despite the proliferation of multicloud strategies, a significant portion of organizations—approximately...