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Microsoft Pours ZAR 5.4bn into South Africa’s Cloud and AI – Can Governance Keep Pace?
Microsoft has committed an additional ZAR 5.4 billion to expand its cloud and AI infrastructure in South Africa, anchoring a broader strategy that combines hyperscale data centres, nationwide...
Hanmi Pharma’s 5G AI PC Strategy: Surface Copilot+ and M365 Copilot Transform Field Sales
Hanmi Pharmaceutical, one of South Korea’s largest R&D-driven drug developers, has equipped its entire field sales force with 5G-connected Surface Copilot+ PCs and deployed Microsoft 365...
Copilot Agent Blocking Broken: Admins Discover Policies Fail Across Teams, Outlook
Organizations relying on Microsoft Copilot's agent policies to restrict AI access are confronting a stark reality: the controls have been breaking silently. In recent weeks, multiple independent...
AI · Copilot Chemist Warehouse Cuts 1,950 HR Hours with AI Assistant Built on Azure AI Foundry
Chemist Warehouse’s six-person HR advisory team now has a digital colleague that drafts responses to hundreds of routine queries each week, reclaiming an estimated 1,950 hours of staff time...
Microsoft's Enterprise AI Blueprint: Copilot Everywhere, Custom Silicon, and the Battle for Trust
Microsoft’s AI platform has evolved from a research-driven experiment into a full-fledged enterprise strategy that embeds generative intelligence across every layer of its stack. The Redmond giant...
Power Platform Monitor Alerts: Set Health Thresholds and Catch App Issues Early in Public Preview
Power Platform Monitor Alerts, now in public preview, puts a long-awaited early-warning system into the hands of tenant and environment administrators. Instead of manually refreshing dashboards or...
Power Pages Studio Now Lets You Turn Web Forms into AI Copilot Agents Instantly
A new preview capability in Microsoft Power Pages is bridging the gap between static web forms and conversational AI agents, promising to slash weeks of custom integration work into minutes of...
AI-Generated SPAs Meet Enterprise Control: Deploying React Apps to Power Pages with GitHub Spark and Codespaces
Microsoft has opened a novel pathway for enterprise developers: generating a single-page application with AI and deploying it directly into a governed Power Platform environment, all without leaving...
UK Policing to Test Microsoft Copilot Agents for Workflow Automation at ETS 2025
CPS, a Microsoft-aligned systems integrator, will showcase Copilot Agents specifically designed for UK policing at The Emergency Tech Show on September 17-18, 2025, inside the Microsoft Partner...
Microsoft Unveils Copilot Studio Consumption Meter: $0.01/Message, Graph Grounding at 30 Messages, and Mandatory DLP Updates
Starting January 2025, Microsoft flipped the switch on a consumption-based billing model for Copilot Studio agents, charging $0.01 per message while weighting different actions dramatically—up to...
NTT DATA Forges Dedicated Microsoft Cloud Unit to Industrialize Agentic AI at Scale
NTT DATA has drawn a line in the sand with the creation of a global business unit laser-focused on the Microsoft Cloud, an abrupt move that consolidates thousands of certified engineers, a library of...
Microsoft AI Cuts BPO Service Desk Inquiries by 70% as Accenture Saves 30% IT Demand
Major business process outsourcing (BPO) firms are leveraging Microsoft’s AI stack to automate away millions of repetitive tasks, slash operational costs, and elevate their strategic role in global...