Microsoft makes Copilot GPT Builder available: personalize chatbots
Microsoft is launching the Copilot GPT Builder. The feature requires no programming knowledge and lets users personalize a chatbot.
Microsoft's Copilot GPT Builder should allow anyone in an enterprise to build their own AI assistant. In fact, the feature works with instructions in written text.... Read more
Russian hackers from Midnight Blizzard capture Microsoft data again
Russian hacker collective Midnight Blizzard continues to plague Microsoft. The hackers allegedly used information captured during a previous hacking attempt to access critical systems, possibly capturing source code.
Microsoft did not disclose what source code was involved or how deep the hacker... Read more
Microsoft left admin-to-kernel exploit in Windows untouched for half a year
Microsoft recently fixed an admin-to-kernel vulnerability in Windows, six months after security experts from Avast brought the problem to the attention of the company.
Hackers from the Lazarus Group, affiliated with the North Korean government, actively used the zero-day exploit. It involves the... Read more
Microsoft releases new instructions for removing OneDrive in Windows 10/11
Microsoft quietly published a new document with instructions for Windows 10/11 users to permanently remove the online storage environment OneDrive from their PCs. This has been done recently, possibly to further comply with the EU's recently enacted DMA regulations.
The now-published document de... Read more
European cloud players complain about Microsoft privileging Azure
Microsoft is allegedly making Azure disproportionately attractive to customers. CISPE supports this claim by comparing the costs Microsoft charges on Azure to the substantially higher prices to run Windows and Office outside its own cloud service.
CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe)... Read more
OneDrive discontinues feature for uploading via URL
According to Microsoft, few users rely on this feature, so the company has decided to stop offering it at the end of this month.
In 2021, OneDrive gained the ability to upload files using a URL. Here, the user shares a web link of the file location with OneDrive, after which the storage service ... Read more
Microsoft unveils new Surface laptops with AI on March 21
Microsoft will present the latest Surface laptops at a "digital event" on Thursday, March 21, at 6 p.m. CET. Aside from an OLED screen for the Surface Pro, an updated design and new processors, presumably the most significant innovation is that these will be the company's first AI PCs.
On this w... Read more
Big Tech tries to make developers and users pay for DMA costs
At midnight, gatekeepers should be in place for the Digital Markets Act (DMA). It already turns out the legislation is not yet perfect, or at least not being implemented perfectly. Big Tech is cunningly trying to get out from under the rules. What goes wrong?
The DMA already proofs it is not a s... Read more
Veeam and Microsoft bring Copilot to backups
Veeam and Microsoft announce a five-year partnership, integrating the Copilot chatbot into Veeam's data protection solutions.
The new partnership follows shortly after the launch of the Veeam Data Cloud, a SaaS service built on Azure that helps protect workloads on that infrastructure. This incl... Read more
Copilot will help with form filling in Dynamics 365
The feature uses AI to offer suggestions while filling in fields in a form. This functionality will become available for Dynamics 365 and Power Apps.
In unveiling the Copilot feature, Microsoft discusses a new option for all model-driven apps. These software components use a database to create f... Read more