… I reported in February that Microsoft is looking at ways to bundle third-party services with Game Pass subscriptions. This new Starter Edition appears to be a way for other services to bundle Game Pass. …
… I wouldn’t be surprised to see OpenAI’s models also appear on Google’s Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform service in the future. That gives Microsoft less of an advantage over its rivals, particularly for its Azure OpenAI service and its Foundry efforts. …
… Microsoft blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services last year after The Guardian revealed its services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. …
… I reported in February that Microsoft is looking at ways to bundle third-party services with Game Pass subscriptions. …
… Fedorov admitted that GitHub was struggling with a huge growth spike in recent years, thanks to an increase in pull requests, commits, and new repos. “Our priorities are clear: availability first, then capacity, then new features,” said Fedorov. “We are reducing unnecessary work, improving caching,… …
… But there’s one other benefit that probably tickled Ellison, a longtime Microsoft hater who even resorted to sending private detectives to sort through Microsoft’s trash: OpenAI’s biggest partner for compute used to be Microsoft. …