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Microsoft’s push to make AI the backbone of enterprise contract automation has moved from proof-of-concept to platform play, blending massive infrastructure bets, partner-led solutions, and an explicit governance narrative — all while forcing painful trade-offs across its workforce and...

The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to pilot an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant for its roughly 800 core developers, a move that could reshape how government software is produced — from legacy COBOL modernization to automated test generation — while raising familiar questions about...

The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that...

Microsoft's decision to collapse volume-based price bands for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements into a single, web‑published price is a major commercial shift that will simplify licensing but almost certainly raise bills for many organizations — and reshape how enterprises, partners...

LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world...

The UK government’s five‑year Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft has crystallised into one of the most consequential technology procurement decisions of the decade: roughly £1.9 billion a year in public‑sector software and services, approaching £9 billion across the...

GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, announced on August 11, 2025 that he will step down to return to his “startup roots,” a move that coincides with Microsoft folding GitHub’s operations more closely into its CoreAI organization — an arrangement that accelerates the platform’s AI-first strategy while...

The knives are out in Silicon Valley: within hours of Microsoft rolling OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its product stack, Elon Musk publicly warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive,” setting off a public skirmish that crystallizes a widening strategic fault line...

Microsoft’s Windows 10 retirement has gone from a scheduled lifecycle event to a full‑blown legal, environmental and consumer‑rights story — a San Diego plaintiff has sued Microsoft seeking an order to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates until its installed base falls to a small...

Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure. Background By the...

The countdown toward Windows 10’s official end of life has long felt like the slow passing of an era, punctuated by warnings and gnawing uncertainty for millions of users still loyal to the venerable operating system. Yet even as the last months tick away, a new twist in Microsoft’s support...

Behind the sleek veneer of Britain's digital revolution lies a fierce contest for control of the nation’s cloud infrastructure—a contest now coming under hard governmental scrutiny. This summer, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) drew a definitive line in the sand: its final report...

Cloud computing is at a pivotal crossroads in the United Kingdom, as organizations increasingly reject single-provider strategies in favor of multi-cloud architectures—a movement driven by both technological need and regulatory scrutiny. Recent findings, underpinned by research from cloud...

Across the ever-expanding digital frontier of enterprise IT, the underlying processors that power cloud infrastructure have become hotly contested territory. For years, Intel’s Xeon series held an unshakable lead, but recent shifts have put AMD’s EPYC and a growing portfolio of Arm-based server...

Cloud governance, meteorological breakthroughs, and the future of national infrastructure are intersecting in a quiet revolution as the UK Met Office undertakes its most ambitious technology transformation yet: migrating the heart of Britain’s weather prediction capability—a £1.2 billion...

European cloud computing has long battled for regulatory fairness in the face of US tech giants' commercial dominance, but a groundbreaking agreement between Microsoft and the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) may signal a new chapter for regional sovereignty and customer...

Here’s a concise summary of the news about OpenAI adding Google Cloud to its infrastructure: OpenAI is no longer exclusively reliant on Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure. Google Cloud has now joined as one of ChatGPT’s cloud providers. This move enables better scalability and provides...

News from the cloud sector rarely generates the kind of high-stakes drama seen in recent months between Microsoft, CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe), and a fractured landscape of European cloud providers. At the heart of the matter are longstanding grievances about...

The UK public sector is navigating an era of digital transformation at an unprecedented scale, and its relationship with major technology vendors has never been more significant. At the heart of this evolving landscape lies the latest five-year agreement between the government and Microsoft—a...

The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing a profound transformation, shifting from isolated, single-model applications to intricate multi-agent systems that mirror the complexity of human organizations. In this evolving paradigm, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has...