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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

CIO Business Intelligence

Theres still enough spending by enterprises on servers, licensed software, and the skill sets they need to maintain and operate the environment that currently exists. Not to be outdone, AWS has a similar offering with its Outposts service, as do Microsoft and Google. The enterprise data center is here to stay.

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‘An easy button to get off Windows’: Amazon’s new AI moves Microsoft apps to Linux

GeekWire

Amazon Q competes on different fronts with Microsoft’s market-leading GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot for businesses, Google Gemini, Salesforce Agentforce, and many other AI tools for businesses and developers.

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GenAI sticker shock sends CIOs in search of solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

As customers await more ample supply of GPUs, many are looking to AI-specific service providers, as well as public and private cloud offerings for hosting genAI workloads, including Nvidia’s cloud, AWS Trainium and Infertia, and Google Tensor Processor Units, according to IDC Market Glance: Generative AI Foundation Models.

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Microsoft’s real AI battle against Google begins with the promise of new superpowers for work

GeekWire

Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. The preview of “Microsoft 365 Copilot” in a pre-recorded online event followed Google’s attempt to preempt Microsoft’s news earlier this week.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Google launched its container orchestration platform Kubernetes (K8s) in 2014, announcing the launch of over 2 billion containers weekly. They don’t need to utilize the same resource as virtual machines do. Containers are faster to start up, drive higher server efficiencies, and reduce server and licensing costs. Challenges.

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Microsoft’s new ‘Team Copilot’ AI assistant runs meetings, manages projects, assigns tasks

GeekWire

Microsoft’s new “Team Copilot” acts as a virtual project manager and meeting assistant. It’s part of a broader effort by Microsoft to expand the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot, which costs businesses an additional $30/user per month on top of the existing price of Microsoft 365 licenses.

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