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09/02/2026

Only 22% of organizations worldwide qualify as Frontier Firms, and they're seeing far higher returns on AI than everyone else.

The IDC InfoBrief below shows how these leaders scale generative and agentic AI, invest in customized solutions, and strengthen responsible AI practices.

For a look at what drives superior AI outcomes, download the InfoBrief by filling out the form. 📊 -dynamics

What separates the organizations winning with AI from everyone else? The IDC InfoBrief, "What every company can learn from Frontier firms leading the AI revolution," draws on a global survey of over 4,000 leaders to show how Frontier Firms scale generative and agentic AI, invest in customized soluti...

09/02/2026

Most organizations start with one AI use case, then find the next three hiding right behind it. Message us to talk through where Microsoft Copilot fits in your workflows. 💡 Copilot

09/01/2026

See more of an attack--and respond faster. Microsoft Defender XDR coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications, helping security teams connect signals and take action.

Read this Microsoft Learn tutorial to explore how coordinated XDR can strengthen your security operations. Security

Disconnected security signals can make threats harder to understand and slower to contain. This Microsoft Learn tutorial explores how Microsoft Defender XDR coordinates detection, prevention, investigation, and response across endpoints, identities, email, and applications--helping security teams co...

09/01/2026

Manual tasks can divert time from mission work, especially when resources are limited. ⚡

This video shows how you can create and customize AI-powered agents in Copilot Chat using natural language, with no coding required.

Watch to see how automation can support your mission and free up time for higher-value work. 365

Manual tasks can limit how much your nonprofit gets done. This video shows how you can create, customize, and share AI-powered agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat using simple natural language prompts. See how these agents help automate complex tasks without coding, making it easier to improve effi...

09/01/2026

Growing a business often means growing costs right alongside it, unless you automate the manual work first.

When CATRION, a leading catering and hospitality provider, needed to scale operations without added cost, it adopted Microsoft Power Platform to automate processes, streamline core functions, and let business units build their own self-service apps.

Read the story to learn from CATRION's experience. 🍽 -dynamics

How does a leading catering and hospitality provider scale operations without watching costs climb? This customer story shows how CATRION adopted Microsoft Power Platform to automate manual processes, streamline core functions, and empower business units to build and manage self-service applications...

09/01/2026

Spend less time gathering information and more time acting on it. See how Copilot Cowork can build a research plan, verify information, identify gaps, and turn findings into a detailed report and financial analysis--helping teams get decision-ready insights faster. 📊

Watch the video to see Copilot Cowork tackle deep research. Copilot

Turn deep research into decision-ready insights faster. See Copilot Cowork take on the heavy lifting--from planning and pressure-testing research to producing a detailed, cited report and Excel financial analysis your team can put to work. Watch "Build a Financial Research Report with Copilot Cowork...

09/01/2026

Handing complex, multi-step work to AI raises a reasonable question about how it was built.

In this video, Copilot Cowork builders Steve Gustavson, Bas Brekelmans, and Christopher Whitten share the thinking behind tools that take on that work so people can focus on tasks needing personal attention.

Watch the video, then message us to talk through where Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork fits your workflows. 💬 Copilot

Who builds an AI agent you'd trust with complex work? In this video, Microsoft 365 Copilot Cowork builders Steve Gustavson, CVP Cowork Design and Research, Bas Brekelmans, Partner Software Engineer, and Christopher Whitten, Engineering Manager, share insights on tools that let you delegate multi-ste...

08/31/2026

AI reached production faster than the governance, integration, and measurement practices meant to keep it accountable.

This MarketScale article covers the ROI gap, the risk of institutional knowledge living inside platforms you don't own, and what belongs in your next AI vendor contract.

🔐 Read the article to see where your AI risk management needs attention.

Who owns what your AI has learned? This MarketScale article examines the distance between fast deployment and slower governance, covering data ownership, audit rights, and exit portability in AI platform agreements. Read the article to prepare for your next vendor review.

08/31/2026

AI pricing is splitting in two, with commodity inference falling toward zero while frontier models grow more expensive.

This article from The Register looks at token economics in practice, including the point where extra spend stopped improving developer productivity and how a token limit trimmed costs by 40%.

💰 Read the article before your next AI budget conversation.

Which part of your AI spending is earning its keep? This article from The Register breaks down the split between cheap commodity inference and rising frontier model prices, along with usage data showing where extra tokens stop improving output. Read the article for a sharper view of AI economics.

08/31/2026

When fragmented security tools complicate IT, the visibility of growing cloud footprints gets blurry.

Australian timber supplier AKD, got clarity by consolidating identity, cloud, endpoint, and data protection on a Microsoft Security platform that integrated Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Entra. With a Microsoft 365 E5 license that included 24/7 SOC monitoring, the move enabled the company to raise its Secure Score by 10% in three months. Get the story to learn from AKD's experience. Security

From reactive defense to proactive protection. As AKD's cloud footprint grew, its security tools grew fragmented, leaving a small IT staff with limited visibility. This customer story shows how the Australian timber supplier consolidated identity, cloud, endpoint, and data protection with Microsoft....