CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy. The trust component is fundamental, he noted. “It

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Network World

JULY 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. Meta itself refers to it as a community license or a bespoke commercial license.

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Data Center Knowledge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Duma is drafting a bill to restrict government agencies from buying licensed software, giving preference to open-source software. Read More.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24 The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Microsoft has realized that every cloud, not just Microsoft Azure, has a silver lining, and that many clients use other cloud services, so it makes sense not to limit their market, UK-based analyst Phil Brunkard said today. However, even with these deals, Microsoft is still under the microscope, especially in Spain.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Google on Wednesday told the European Union (EU) that Microsoft is illegally using its dominant market position in Windows to force enterprises to use its Azure cloud service or face a 400% price penalty and a denial of upgrades and security patches. It doesn’t address the particulars of Google’s filing,” he said. The answer is probably yes.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2024

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows. 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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2022

Cloud adoption might have the effect of consolidating IT by bringing a host of interactions on to a single platform and shift the cost of running IT from CapEx spending to OpEx, but there is the potential for it to cause licensing “bill shock.” Introducing Cloud Navigator portal. Introducing Cloud Navigator portal.

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Network World

MAY 24, 2024

These, along with issues such as software licensing, could disincentivise customers from using rival cloud providers, thereby stifling innovation and inhibiting competition in the cloud service market. Private clouds and software-as-a-service offerings were considered out of scope.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Microsoft will end product support and updates for Dynamics GP, its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) product for small and medium businesses, on September 30, 2029, the company announced on Tuesday. Microsoft is committed to ensuring we offer robust and innovative solutions to meet these needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

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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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Because Windows 11 Pro has new hardware requirements, your upgrade strategy must both address hardware and software aspects, not to mention security, deployment plans, training, and more. Then, check with the software vendors to see if the applications are compatible with Windows 11 Pro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Looking ahead to a future in which customers will move their entire data center workloads to the cloud, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday expanded their partnership. You can marry that to this incredible library of Microsoft technology. Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Database

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

Microsoft has begun migrating its internal SAP systems to S/4HANA under the RISE with SAP umbrella. Microsoft has run SAP internally since at least 1995; Amazon.com is reported to have turned to SAP for its finances in 2008, while Google parent Alphabet replaced some of its Oracle financial systems with SAP in April 2021.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Massgrave is a prominent group within the piracy scene, known for creating highly effective scripts designed to activate Microsoft software. These tools have gained significant popularity and are expected to see even broader use in the near future. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's powerful GPT-3 natural language processing model as part of a multiyear agreement between the companies. Read More.

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Explosive growth in cloud applications has depressed software license sales, and cloud platforms have upended the traditional on-premises server and storage market. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services. Read more.

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Network World

MAY 4, 2017

Rumors have LG adding facial recognition software to their LG G6 phones that could be used in a similar manner. Also, Alabama’s revenue department is trialing a face-recognition app from MorphoTrust that uses iPhones to scan taxpayers’ drivers licenses and to scan their face. It’s only good for logging into Microsoft accounts.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 19, 2023

Microsoft has revealed on the softwares' official product pages that it will stop directly issuing licenses for Windows 10 Home, Pro, and Workstation. The disclaimer states that January 31, 2023, is the last day consumers can download the operating systems from Microsoft's site.

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TechSpot

APRIL 26, 2024

Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation. under an MIT license. Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 Working in partnership with IBM and "in the spirit of open innovation," the company has released the source code of MS-DOS 4.00 Read Entire Article

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 25, 2023

Microsoft 365 is the productivity engine at the heart of many SMB businesses across Australia. Having the right licenses for the applications the business needs are critical. Licensing can sometimes be complex to understand, however, which is why SMBs should make sure they’re sourcing their licenses from the right places.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Citing currency fluctuations, Microsoft is all set to increase prices of its on-premises software, online services and Windows licenses in India by up to 11%. The change will see India prices for commercial on-premises software rise by 4.5%, Microsoft said in a blog post. Microsoft, Pricing

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. >

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CTOvision

AUGUST 15, 2016

All enterprise professionals should continue to track MicroSoft ( NASDAQ:MSFT ). We focus most of our energy tracking smaller, more disruptive firms since most enterprise technologists will know how to get updates on MicroSoft, but like the other Tech Titans we track we have to keep an eye out for surprises. What Is Microsoft HoloLens?

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Clockwise from top left: Privacy License founder Nabanita De; Mvue founder Payal Tiwana; Saturday founder Michelle Howe; and Pansophy founder Anshu Dwibhashi. ” The company’s software uses generative AI to automate how mid-market businesses recover payments and free up working capital. .”

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Forrester IT

JULY 8, 2016

This week Microsoft announced a new offering (available in the Fall): Microsoft Dynamics 365. Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Microsoft Dynamics AX all come to mind, and this was not done by mistake. So what is Microsoft looking to achieve with these changes? Microsoft aims to: Read more Categories: CRM.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 10, 2022

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. That bold choice was driven by the need to free up the software segment from constraints on its growth.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Oracle is an enterprise software vendor based in Austin, Texas. This announcement came on the heels of a very busy June for Oracle as it announced earnings, including 12% growth for cloud services and license support revenue and new extensions of relationships with Google and Microsoft, respectively.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. With the deal, Amazon plans to upgrade from traditional Microsoft Office software to the Redmond company’s cloud productivity suite, according to the report, which notes that Amazon had previously been reluctant to use cloud-based technologies from Microsoft given the rivalry between Azure and AWS.

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Tech Republic

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Essential productivity software at the lowest price you’ll find this year. The post November 25 only: Get two licenses for Microsoft Office Home & Business on Mac for $54.99 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Tech Republic

JULY 15, 2022

Get great deals on developer and Linux training courses, Microsoft Office licenses and more through these TechRepublic Academy offerings. The post Top TechRepublic Academy training courses and software offerings of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 13, 2024

During the new AI revolution of the past year and a half, many companies have experimented with and developed solutions with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 via Azure OpenAI, while weighing the merits of digital assistants like Microsoft Copilot.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2024

GitHub first launched its copilot in 2021 , and Microsoft 365 Copilot became generally available a few months ago. Many employees want to experiment with AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot, while CIOs are under pressure from their CEOs to realign digital transformation priorities and deliver business value with generative AI capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2023

OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. Microsoft stands to benefit from its investment in three ways. It’s going to get ugly,” she said.

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