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Microsoft is set to hike its Power BI prices — will buyers jump ship or just take the hit?

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft Power BI users will soon face hefty price increases of anywhere from 25% to 40%. This is not just Microsoft I hear from many clients who are due for renewals that their BI vendors are increasing prices, Forrester VP and principal analyst Boris Evelson told CIO. In some cases, very significantly. E5 costs $54.75

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Microsoft hit with more litigation accusing it of predatory pricing

CIO Business Intelligence

A UK law firm on Tuesday filed what amounts to a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of using its market share to overcharge clients running Windows Server on AWS, Google, or Alibaba cloud offerings instead of on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. Kimball asked.

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Accelerating AI for financial services: Innovation at scale with NVIDIA and Microsoft

CIO Business Intelligence

NVIDIA + Microsoft: Partnering for AI transformation at scale Given the pace of change, FSI companies need to lean into the right partnerships and resources to enable innovation. Read more from NVIDIA and Microsoft [link]

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Microsoft will invest $80B in AI data centers in fiscal 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.

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No support or updates for Windows 11 on machines not meeting minimum hardware requirements, says Microsoft

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has offered a miniscule concession to users determined to install Windows 11 on PCs that dont meet its minimum hardware requirements: you will be able to do it, but on your own head be it should things go wrong.

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Microsoft commits to AI integration, but delivers no particulars to differentiate from rivals

CIO Business Intelligence

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsofts AI strategy. IDC sees the move likely shifting many Microsoft offerings around in terms of internal structure.

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Microsoft makes quantum breakthrough, plans commercial offering

CIO Business Intelligence

At Quantum World Congress on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it and partner Quantinuum had broken a record in the creation of logical qubits. In addition, Microsoft also announced that it is working with partner Atom Computing to build what it described as the world’s most powerful quantum machine.

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