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Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365

Copilot for Microsoft 365 is here for enterprise customers! Learn how to make use of Microsoft’s newest AI in all of your Microsoft 365 Apps, such as Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams and more!

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Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365: Data residency

Effective March 7, 2024, Microsoft announced the expansion of its data residency capabilities. By adding content of interactions with Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to its portfolio of data residency commitments and offerings, Microsoft is ensuring that the content of users’ interactions with Copilot for Microsoft 365 will be stored in the same

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Microsoft and Mistral AI: Mistral Large available

On February 26, 2024, Microsoft and Mistral AI, a recognized leader in generative artificial intelligence announced their multi-year partnership. Both companies are fueled by a steadfast dedication to innovation and practical applications, bridging the gap between pioneering research and real-world solutions.     This partnership with Microsoft enables Mistral AI

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Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio: advancing resilience

Microsoft Azure Chaos Studio helps you measure, understand, and improve your cloud application resilience. Cloud applications are constantly exposed to various disruptions and failures, such as network latency, storage outages, or even datacenter outages. These incidents can affect the performance, availability, and reliability of your applications, and ultimately impact your

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Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability: Data and AI Solutions

Effective February 13, 2024, Microsoft introduced new data and AI solutions in Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, aimed at helping organizations progress in their sustainability journey. These solutions are designed to provide faster environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data analytics and insights, an AI assistant to accelerate impactful decision-making and reporting,

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Microsoft Azure SQL Database failover rights: Save on costs

Starting from December 1, 2023, you can benefit from the new failover rights for Azure SQL Database, which allow you to reduce your licensing costs for disaster recovery scenarios. If you have a secondary database replica that is only used for disaster recovery purposes, and has no active workloads or

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Microsoft Azure Arc ESUs for DR and Dev/Test environments

Effective October 1, 2023, Microsoft added a clause to the Product Terms: If a customer has enabled Extended Security Updates (ESU) through Azure Arc they may use the updates on licensed Disaster Recovery servers and in Dev/Test environments.   Product Terms clause The Product Terms clause states: Disaster Recovery and

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Microsoft products retiring in 2024

In 2024, a list of Microsoft products will retire according to a schedule. Upon retirement, there will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.   The retiring products, governed by the Modern Policy, in 2024 are:   Product Retirement

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Microsoft product releases reaching End of Servicing 2024

In 2024, a list of Microsoft product releases will reach their End of Servicing, meaning their end of support, according to a schedule. There will be no new security updates, non-security updates, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.   The following product releases, governed by

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