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Microsoft has made concessions to the organization representing Europe’s leading cloud providers, giving its members the ability to offer pay-as-you-go plans, match Azure pricing, and privately host customer workloads. Some see this as merely one more development, not the culmination of the years-long battle between the tech giant and Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), which has long argued that Microsoft’s contracts harm the European cloud computing market. However, “it seems like CISPE’s persistence has paid off, and Microsoft has taken a meaningful step toward fairer terms,” said Phil Brunkard, executive counselor at Info-Tech Research Group UK. “The real [...]
Windows are cracking. And it’s not just Apple that’s seeing the benefit; some users are jumping on the Linux bandwagon as a way to avoid the Microsoft upgrade tax. Case in point: Linux has broken the 5% barrier for desktop operating systems in the US for the first time ever, according to StatCounter data. StatCounter claims Windows’ market share has fallen 13% over the last decade to 63.2%. That’s still a huge number, but as Microsoft forces its customers to endure the expense of a Windows 11 upgrade later this year, it represents an attractive congregation of potential Apple and Linux switchers. Millions of Windows users [...]
While Chinese car manufacturers are increasingly turning their vehicles into a mobile entertainment centers with features such as karaoke, laser or LED projectors, and retractable screens, German manufacturers are looking to transform their vehicles into mobile offices. Mercedes-Benz, for example, is expanding its collaboration with Microsoft. The Stuttgart-based company is bringing the Microsoft Teams meeting app into the vehicle and also integrating the cloud-based management solution Microsoft Intune. The partners are also working on offering Microsoft 365 Copilot in the car. In this way, the auto maker’s ambitious goal is to “transform the vehicle into a third workplace that complements [...]
You’ve heard of vibe coding, right? Vibe coding, a phrase coined by Andrej Karpathy in February, means using natural language to tell an AI tool what you want your software to do, and letting AI write the code for you. The top three vibe-coding platforms are Hostinger Horizons, Lovable, and Bolt.new. By signing up with these services and simply talking (or typing), you can build your own apps. The stoned face of vibe coding is one Rene Turcios. The son of Missouri circus folk, Turcios smokes weed and wins app-building hackathons while high, despite lacking coding or software engineering knowledge. Now he’s a sought-after app developer who builds [...]
According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, thanks to AI, “The world will be more productive. There will be higher GDP. There will be more jobs. But every job will be augmented by AI.” And according to Doug Matty, the US Department of Defense’s Chief AI Officer, the generative AI (genAI) program Grok can help us guard against our enemies, and “maintain strategic advantage over our adversaries.” Yeah. Right. Sure, the genAI revolution has been very good for Nvidia, which now has $4 trillion in value and is growing. It’s also fine and dandy for Grok that — only days after Elon Musk’s [...]
Man, oh, man — I don’t know about you, but tech news right now has me feeling a haunting sense of déjà vu. Have ya heard? Android and ChromeOS are, like, totally merging. Again. Like, any minute now. For realsies, this time. That’s the buzz around this wacky ol’ web of ours this week, and it’s a tale we’ve heard told — with great confidence, every single time — quite literally for years now. Such rumblings started more or less at the moment Google’s ChromeOS platform came into existence roughly a decade and a half ago. From the Chromebook’s first [...]
This article was originally published in German at Computerwoche. Microsoft Teams continues to gain ground as a business collaboration tool, in part because Microsoft has tied the meeting and messaging app ever more tightly to the rest of its Microsoft 365 (formerly Office) productivity suite over the years. Teams makes it easy for users to share documents and access information, but this increases the risk of data leaks. This risk can be managed with tools built into Teams and Microsoft 365 — coupled with knowledge and personal responsibility on the part of Teams owners and users — without losing the [...]
Windows 11 24H2 has been released, but behind the scenes, Microsoft is constantly working to improve the newest version of Windows. The company frequently rolls out public preview builds to members of its Windows Insider Program, allowing them to test out — and even help shape — upcoming features. Skip to the latest builds The Windows Insider program is divided into four channels: The Canary Channel is where platform changes (such as major updates to the Windows kernel and new APIs) are previewed. These changes are not tied to a particular Windows release and may never ship at all. Little [...]
Over the last decade, Slack has amassed millions of users. The average user has Slack open 10 hours a day and actively uses it a couple of hours daily. A lot of enterprise knowledge flows through channels, direct messages, and meetings. Extensive new generative AI (genAI) features added in recent years assist in even better communication and collaboration. Slack, which is owned by Salesforce, hopes genAI will make its software a “work operating system” where digital labor can also communicate and orchestrate business processes. Some of the newer features include enterprise search, summaries, meeting notes, and translations. And there’s more [...]
How hard can it be to abandon a 10-year old operating system in favor of something more modern, more stable, and more secure? That’s the opportunity IT enjoys with the coming expiration of Windows 10 support in October, giving admins the freedom to make a better choice. Sure, not everyone in IT is shifting to Apple. Many enterprises remain trapped in the Windows ecosystem through reliance on proprietary and/or third-party applications that do not support the Mac. There’s also the pernicious nature of the Windows lock-in, which means many in IT have a vested interest in sticking with the platform, even [...]