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Marc Benioff rails against Microsoft’s copilot

CIO Business Intelligence

After lashing out against Microsoft at the Dreamforce customer conference, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has taken another swipe at his competitor. I have yet to find anyone who’s had a transformational experience with Microsoft Copilot or the pursuit of training and retraining custom LLMs” the Salesforce CEO concluded.

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A new era for Windows: Can Microsoft’s longtime engine power another tech revolution?

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveils Copilot + PCs, a linchpin of the companys plan to reinvent Windows, during a special event in Redmond in May 2024. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.

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SAP trials meeting-free Fridays

CIO Business Intelligence

Many companies encourage employees to set aside blocks of time each day for “deep work,” and some even automate that process using tools such as Microsoft Outlook’s focus time feature, part of Viva Insights. SAP’s Focus Friday program is part of a company-wide campaign to make its meetings more meaningful.

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AI Dreams: Microsoft @ 50, Chapter 1

GeekWire

[ Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. It was a “major, major moment in this whole AI journey,” said Peter Lee, the Microsoft Research president. At Microsoft, it was a moment decades in the making.

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Xbox’s Larry ‘Major Nelson’ Hryb ‘taking a step back’ from Microsoft

GeekWire

(GeekWire File Photo) Larry Hryb, better known to the Xbox player community by his gamer tag “Major Nelson,” announced Friday that he’s “taking a step back” from his job at Microsoft. Hryb, a director of programming at Xbox Live, has worked at Microsoft since 2001 and on the Xbox project since 2003.

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Interview: Steve Ballmer is still Microsoft’s largest individual investor — and its most loyal fan

GeekWire

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at the 2021 groundbreaking for the Intuit Dome, the new home of the L.A. Clippers / Intuit Dome Photo) [Editors Note: Microsoft@50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. He was at Microsoft for almost 34 years.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Consequently, operating system distributions and underlying infrastructure configurations are abstracted from application programs, allowing them to run correctly and identically regardless of the environment. How we got here. In conclusion.