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Hitachi Vantara VSP One SDS Lands on Azure Marketplace, Promises Up to 40% Storage Savings
Hitachi Vantara has made its Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) available directly within the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, a move aimed at simplifying hybrid cloud...
Board’s Enterprise Planning Platform Scores Azure Certified Software Designation, Unlocking Co-Sell and Marketplace Perks
Board International has secured a Microsoft Solutions Partner designation with Certified Software for Azure, adding the company’s enterprise planning platform to a short list of financially focused...
OpenAI's ₹399 ChatGPT Go Blitzkrieg: How India's AI Pricing War Will Reshape the Copilot Landscape
OpenAI has fired a shot across the bow of every major AI platform with the August 19 launch of ChatGPT Go, an India-exclusive subscription that slashes the price of advanced AI access to just ₹399...
Smarsh Plugs Copilot Compliance Gap with Microsoft API Integration
Regulated firms rushing to adopt Microsoft 365 Copilot face a stark reality: every AI-generated summary, draft, or recommendation could become a regulated record that examiners will want to see....
Microsoft Tests COPILOT Formula in Excel: Native AI That Recalculates Automatically
Microsoft has started testing a highly anticipated feature in Excel: a native AI function called COPILOT that embeds generative AI directly into the spreadsheet's calculation engine. Announced for...
Ricoh APAC Bets Big on AI: Microsoft Copilot, InnoAI Center, and a Workforce Skilling Blitz
Ricoh Asia Pacific is betting its future on a tight integration between hardware, managed services, and Microsoft’s Copilot platform, marking one of the region’s most ambitious attempts by a...
From Pilot to Production: How Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Are Redefining Cloud-Delivered Windows 10
The shift to delivering Windows 10 through the cloud has moved from experimental to essential for enterprises wrestling with remote work, security, and cost pressures. Microsoft’s Azure Virtual...
Microsoft's $80B AI Infrastructure Push Supercharges Contract Automation for Enterprises
Microsoft is pouring more than $80 billion into AI-capable data centers this fiscal year, a staggering bet that underpins a sweeping strategy to automate enterprise procurement through Azure-based...
Microsoft’s GPT-5 Ecosystem Overhaul: Smart Routing, Deeper Reasoning, and Enterprise Guardrails
Microsoft has simultaneously activated OpenAI’s GPT-5 family across its entire productivity, development, and cloud portfolio—a coordinated day-one deployment that embeds advanced reasoning into...
UAE Trains One Million Prompters and AI Talents With Microsoft as Post-Oil Pivot Accelerates
The United Arab Emirates is staking its post-oil future on a workforce that can talk to machines. By 2027, the nation aims to have trained one million people in AI prompt engineering and equipped a...
Microsoft Rolls Out GPT-5 With Smart Mode and Automated Model Router Across Copilot, GitHub, and Foundry
Microsoft has embedded OpenAI's most advanced reasoning engine into nearly every major product line, flipping on GPT-5 across consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio...
Microsoft's Cloud PC Bet Pays Off: Windows 365 Evolves with GPU Support, Zero Trust, and Global Agility
On August 2, 2021, Microsoft officially opened the doors to Windows 365, a new cloud service that delivers a full Windows desktop—apps, data, settings, and all—to any device with a browser or...