Cloud Integration
The latest Cloud Integration coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
October 2025 Deadline: Microsoft Ends Access 2016 and 2019 Support With No Extended Security Updates
As of October 14, 2025, Microsoft will permanently cut off security updates and technical support for Access 2016 and Access 2019, leaving organizations with unsupported database applications facing...
Forget Filenames: Copilot's New Semantic Search Finds Files by Meaning on AI PCs
Microsoft has begun rolling out a significant update to its Copilot app for Windows Insiders, introducing semantic file search that understands natural language queries and a redesigned home screen...
Board's Azure Marketplace Leap: Unpacking the AI Planning Alliance with Microsoft
Board International has vaulted from a niche enterprise performance management (EPM) player to a certified Microsoft Solutions Partner for Azure, complete with a "Certified Software" badge and a...
SAP Deploys Generative AI Copilot in AWS and Microsoft Brazil Regions to Power Smarter ERP
SAP is planting its AI flag deep in Brazilian soil. The enterprise software giant has decided to host a key AI-powered business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Ricoh’s 5-Day AI Bootcamp: Upskilling Over 1,000 Staff to Fuel a Copilot-Powered Services Pivot
Ricoh Asia Pacific has just completed a region-wide, five-day AI upskilling sprint designed to transform more than a thousand of its employees from printer salespeople into Copilot-powered solution...
Microsoft Experiments with Hover Quick-Actions and AI Tools in File Explorer, but Stability Bugs Persist
Microsoft is testing a suite of productivity-focused upgrades for File Explorer that promise to cut clicks and surface AI tools directly where users browse files. Lean on a file in the Home view and...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke Exits Amid Microsoft’s Plan to Absorb the Platform into CoreAI
Thomas Dohmke confirmed today he will step down as GitHub’s CEO at the end of 2025, closing a chapter that saw the platform morph from a code‑hosting utility into the nerve center of...
GitHub CEO Departs as Microsoft Integrates Platform into CoreAI, No Successor Named
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and Microsoft will not appoint a successor—instead folding the world’s largest code-hosting platform directly into its CoreAI organization. The move,...
Microsoft Exec Says 'Mousing Around and Typing' Will Soon Feel as Archaic as MS-DOS
David Weston, Microsoft’s Vice President of OS Security, has laid out a future for Windows that renders the traditional mouse and keyboard as relics of a bygone era. “The world of mousing around...
Visual Studio 2015 Support Cut-off Hits October 14, 2025—Coinciding with Windows 10's Last Day
Microsoft has set October 14, 2025, as the final curtain for Visual Studio 2015. On that date, all editions—from Enterprise and Professional to Community and Build Tools—lose every form of...
Microsoft Ends Windows 11 SE Support in 2026: Implications for Educational Technology and Classroom Devices
Microsoft’s announcement marking the end of support for Windows 11 SE in October 2026 represents more than just the sunset of a product—it is a vivid inflection point for educational technology...