Data Governance
The latest Data Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Excel STOCKHISTORY Outage in Early 2026 Exposes Cloud Data Dependency Risks
Microsoft's Excel platform experienced a significant disruption during the first trading week of 2026 when the STOCKHISTORY function failed for numerous users, returning connection errors and stale...
Azure Purview + MDM: Automate Data Trust Across Hybrid Clouds
In today's data-driven enterprise landscape, the promise of cloud analytics can only be realized when IT and business leadership align on a fundamental question: whose numbers count, and why? This...
AI Bot Wars: How Adversarial Archives and Hallucinations Threaten Corporate Communications
The escalating conflict between John Donovan and Royal Dutch Shell has unveiled a disturbing new frontier in digital warfare: a public "bot war" where generative AI systems, trained on partisan...
Microsoft Acquires Osmos to Supercharge Fabric with Autonomous AI Data Engineering
Microsoft has made a strategic acquisition that could fundamentally reshape how enterprises manage and process their data. The tech giant has purchased Seattle-based startup Osmos, integrating its...
Microsoft Copilot Enterprise Adoption: Productivity Gains vs Governance & Cost Challenges
Microsoft's Copilot has rapidly evolved from experimental AI assistant to enterprise mainstay, fundamentally reshaping how knowledge workers approach writing, data analysis, meetings, and task...
AI Prompts as eDiscovery Data: Legal Risks of Copilot & Gemini in Windows
The rapid integration of generative AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini into enterprise Windows environments is creating a new frontier for legal discovery that IT departments and...
Palantir Foundry AI Agents Transform Insurance: Sompo's Enterprise Deployment Examined
In a landmark move for the insurance industry, Japanese insurance giant Sompo Holdings has significantly expanded its deployment of Palantir Foundry's AI agents into core underwriting and claims...
Energy IT Teams Now Treat AI Compute as Critical Infrastructure, Requiring PPAs and Capital Planning by 2025
The year 2025 marked a fundamental shift in how the energy industry approaches artificial intelligence—from experimental tools to core infrastructure requiring capital planning, power agreements,...
Sterile Seed AI: How Windows Users Can Avoid Vendor Lock-In in the AI Era
The concept of "sterile seed AI"—a term borrowed from Paolo Bacigalupi's biopunk fiction—has become an unnervingly accurate metaphor for the current state of artificial intelligence deployment....
NASA & Microsoft's Hydrology Copilot: AI-Powered Water Data for Everyone
In a groundbreaking collaboration that merges space-age data with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, NASA and Microsoft have unveiled Hydrology Copilot—an AI-powered platform designed to...
Microsoft Copilot in Education: How Discovery Trust's Pilot Saved Teachers Time & Sparked Innovation
When Discovery Trust, a multi-academy trust in the UK, launched a modest pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot across its schools, educators weren't sure what to expect. The initial results, however, have...
Cognizant & Microsoft Target AI's Last Mile: Can Copilot Integration Solve Enterprise Scaling?
The enterprise AI landscape is shifting from experimentation to execution, and a major partnership between Cognizant and Microsoft aims to address the industry's most persistent bottleneck: the...