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The latest Managed Services coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
MSPs Gain New Tools as Vendors Unleash Unified Partner Hubs, PAYG Billing, and AI Security
{ "title": "MSPs Gain New Tools as Vendors Unleash Unified Partner Hubs, PAYG Billing, and AI Security", "content": "Four major technology vendors this week retooled their partner engagement...
Parallo Alumni Launch Spotto.ai, an AI-Powered Azure Cost Killer for MSPs
Shaun Webber, Symon Thurlow, and Jay Strydom—three former engineers from Azure specialist MSP Parallo—have quietly launched Spotto.ai, an AI-native platform designed to help managed service...
Windows 10's Final Countdown: IT Providers Warn of Security Risks as October 2025 Deadline Looms
{ "title": "Windows 10's Final Countdown: IT Providers Warn of Security Risks as October 2025 Deadline Looms", "content": "October 14, 2025, is no longer a distant date on the IT...
Screenvision Executes 12-Week Multi-Cloud Shift to Azure and OCI, Powering Cinema Ad Modernization
Screenvision Media, one of the largest cinema advertising networks in the United States, has completed a high-speed migration of its core business systems to a dual-cloud architecture spanning...
Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft Launch Summit to Convert African Partners into AI and Cloud Solution Builders
An exclusive invite-only partner summit launching August 28 in Johannesburg aims to systematically retool African channel companies for the Microsoft cloud era. Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft’s primary...
TrustedTech's Microsoft Managed Partner Status Fuels Copilot and Migration Push
TrustedTech has retired its old name and licensing-reseller identity, emerging with a Microsoft Managed Partner badge and a full-service “Microsoft-first” portfolio that bets big on Copilot...
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...
TrustedTech's Bold Microsoft-First Rebrand: Can It Back Up the AI and Cloud Hype?
On August 18, 2025, TrustedTech dropped its old identity as Trusted Tech Team and unveiled a sweeping rebrand that recasts the former reseller as a full-service Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems...
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...
TrustedTech Abandons Licensing Roots to Chase Microsoft Copilot and Cloud Gold Rush
TrustedTech, the IT services firm formerly known as Trusted Tech Team, has officially shed its transactional licensing past and reinvented itself as a full-stack Microsoft cloud and AI integrator....
Microsoft Formalizes Paid Extended Support for Azure MySQL to Ease Upgrade Rush
Microsoft has introduced a paid Extended Support program for Azure Database for MySQL, automatically enrolling servers that run community end-of-life versions and charging customers on a per-vCore,...
Sure’s Azure Stack Hub in Channel Islands: Real Capacity, Licensing, and Data Sovereignty Demystified
Channel Island enterprises now have a managed Azure Stack Hub service hosted locally by Sure, a move that promises data residency, Azure-consistent tooling, and on-island support. This hybrid cloud...