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Salesforce, Slack are suing Microsoft in UK over same business practice that Google called ‘problematic’ and complained about in Europe

Salesforce and its messaging platform, Slack, have officially filed a lawsuit against Microsoft in London’s High Court, alleging that the tech giant is using its market dominance to crush competition in the workplace software industry, a report has said. Filed last week, the lawsuit accuses Microsoft of anti-competitive behaviour. Specifically, Slack argues that Microsoft “tied”…

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Google issues new ‘warning’ in Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk scam

Google has warned about a new cybercrime group that uses Microsoft Teams chat invitations and fake helpdesk messages to steal credentials and deploy malware. Researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have claimed that a cybercriminal group (UNC6692) conducted a major email hacking campaign last year. This campaign mainly targeted companies by overwhelming their employees…

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OpenAI and Microsoft rewrite their $13 billion deal: Here’s what changes

Sam Altman and Satya Nadella For years, OpenAI‘s biggest financial backer was also its biggest constraint. That changed Monday. OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership that ends Microsoft’s exclusive license to OpenAI’s technology—the same technology Microsoft had been backing since 2019, to the tune of $13 billion. The new deal allows OpenAI to sell…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may have just agreed with VP Rajesh Jha on the solution to software companies’ biggest fear

The rise of agentic AI has triggered a crises in the enterprise software industry. The fear goes something like this: if artificial intelligence (AI) makes every worker more productive, companies will need fewer employees. Fewer employees means fewer software licences, which in turn means the business model that has made enterprise software one of the…

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Explained: What is the Voluntary Retirement Programme that Microsoft is offering to its 8500-plus employees

Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to roughly 7% of its US workforce—about 8,750 people out of 125,000 American employees. It’s the first time in the company’s 51-year history it has done anything like this. In previous years, when Microsoft needed to cut costs, it reached for layoffs: more than 15,000 jobs went last summer alone….

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Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary buyout for 8000-plus employees in America; tells them in memo: Our hope is that …

FILE Picture (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File) Microsoft is planning its first voluntary employee buyout in the company’s 51-year history. According to a memo, Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement to thousands of its employees in the US. Microsoft has never previously done buyouts of this scale. As per the report, about 7% of Microsoft’s workforce in…

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Microsoft VP Rajesh Jha has a big business idea for software companies on Agentic AI that should wipe out all ‘Claude fears’

As fears grow that artificial intelligence (AI) may kill the traditional software business model, a top executive at Microsoft has floated a new idea: make the AI agents pay for their own seats – just like in the case of human workers. For decades, the “Software as a Service” (SaaS) industry has relied on “seat-based…

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After calling software engineering ‘dead,’ Anthropic’s Claude Code creator Boris Cherny says coding tools like Microsoft VS Code, Apple Xcode, and others will be ‘dead soon’

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, predicts traditional coding tools like VS Code and Xcode will soon be obsolete. He believes AI agents will soon handle entire development workflows, rendering current IDEs unnecessary. This shift will redefine software engineers into ‘builders’ who orchestrate AI, requiring adaptability and early experimentation from professionals. Boris Cherny, the creator…

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OpenAI’s four-page memo to employees has a ‘brutal’ line about Microsoft |

An internal memo from OpenAI sheds light on a fraying partnership with Microsoft, the very company that provided its foundation. OpenAI candidly points out Microsoft’s constraints in the enterprise sector and cites a landmark $50 billion deal with AWS as pivotal. OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser sent a four-page internal memo to employees on…

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OpenAI almost makes it clear to employees that partnership with Amazon is ‘future’ and Microsoft ‘past’; tells in memo: It has also limited our ability to…

OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser sent a four-page internal memo to staff on Sunday, signalling a clear shift in the company’s cloud allegiances—Amazon is now the enterprise growth engine, while Microsoft has “limited” its reach. The memo touts “staggering” inbound demand since the $50 billion Amazon partnership was announced in February. Meanwhile, Microsoft insists…

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