Procurement
The latest Procurement coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
IT Renewals Strategy 2025: How Longer Cycles Boost CIO Bargaining Power
The landscape of enterprise IT renewals is undergoing a fundamental transformation in 2025, with companies across multiple industries now treating software and service renewals as strategic decisions...
Grand Traverse County Embraces Cloud-First Strategy with AI Pilot Program
Grand Traverse County is making a strategic pivot toward cloud-first operations, marking a significant transformation in how local government approaches technology infrastructure and service...
Orange County Is Pricing a Move Off Microsoft Azure. Here’s What It Means for Your Cloud Strategy.
Orange County’s IT department has quietly asked the market what it would cost to move its workloads off Microsoft Azure — a rare and revealing step that signals growing public-sector interest in...
OPM Grants Staff Copilot and ChatGPT Access via GSA's OneGov: A Practical Guide for Federal Workers
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has flipped the switch on generative AI for its employees, granting immediate access to Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and preparing to roll out an...
Defence Ran ‘Mission-Critical’ Apps on U.S. Cloud, Shelling Out $1.3B Since 2021
Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services from American tech giants since 2021, newly tabled government documents reveal. The Department of National Defence (DND) acknowledged that some...
Windows 10 Support Ends October 14, 2025: Upgrade, Pay for Security, or Face the Risk
Microsoft will stop issuing security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. With nearly half of all Windows PCs still running the old operating system, millions of users face a ticking clock....
Congress Ends Microsoft Copilot Ban, Deploys AI to Staff with Phased Security Measures
House Speaker Mike Johnson took the stage at the annual Congressional Hackathon this week and made a surprise announcement that ended a year-long standoff: the U.S. House of Representatives is...
Kingston's New Gen5 Enterprise SSD Goes Mainstream with 14 GB/s Speeds and Off-the-Shelf Availability
Kingston has started shipping its first PCIe 5.0 enterprise SSD, the DC3000ME, and the biggest news isn’t just the speed—it’s how you can buy it. The U.2 drive is now available through standard...
House Reverses Copilot Ban, Pilots 6,000-Seat Rollout With Unverified Safeguards
The U.S. House of Representatives will begin giving thousands of staffers access to Microsoft Copilot this fall, reversing a 2024 prohibition that blocked the AI tool over data leakage fears. Speaker...
How the House Reversed Its Copilot Ban: A Blueprint for Secure AI in Government
The U.S. House of Representatives has lifted its year-old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot and will begin deploying the generative AI tool to members and staff under strict data-protection terms,...
Oracle's $144B Cloud Gamble: How the AI-First OCI Plan Affects Your Windows Workloads
On September 10, Oracle stunned Wall Street with a fiscal 2026 revenue forecast that projects its cloud infrastructure business will reach $144 billion by fiscal 2030—placing it squarely in...
Microsoft pledges £22 billion for UK AI future, building largest supercomputer with 23,000 GPUs
Microsoft has unveiled a £22 billion ($30 billion) investment plan for the United Kingdom — the largest single-country commitment in the company’s history. Running from 2025 to 2028, the package...