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Microsoft’s real AI battle against Google begins with the promise of new superpowers for work

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot in a prerecorded event Thursday morning. Microsoft was encroaching onto Google’s turf when it announced an AI-powered Bing search engine last month. But for Microsoft, the stakes are much higher in productivity than in search.

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Tech Moves: Highspot adds executives; Blue Origin vets depart; Disney hires former Microsoft exec

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A former Microsoft and Twitter software engineer, Zhang was most recently a general manager at Chinese microblogging website Weibo. The Walt Disney Company hired former Microsoft General Counsel Horacio Gutierrez as its new senior executive vice president, general counsel and secretary. John Zhang as VP of engineering. Walt Disney Co.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

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Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, Oracle, Microsoft, GitHub, and ServiceNow are but a few of the many vendors whose cloud applications make up the new tech backbone for most enterprises today, in conjunction with customized in-house apps and niche offerings across public clouds. It’s unwieldy at times managing a detailed budget by vendor.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 8, 2023

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He was born there, graduated from the University of Washington, and grew his investment bank Cascadia Capital in the city over the past two decades. Microsoft is giving U.S. Microsoft is changing its vacation policy to give U.S.-based Why Microsoft’s new unlimited vacation policy could be problematic for employees.

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Tech Moves: Tegria adds execs; JPMorgan leader retiring; Angi hires former Expedia exec; and more

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A licensed general internist, Gensinger has expertise in clinical informatics and software design. He also held managerial roles at Microsoft, Nokia and Apple. Campbell has worked in banking for 30 years and joined JPMorgan in 2009 after the bank acquired Washington Mutual. He also was an architect at Microsoft.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

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Microsoft is banking on it to be the next big “killer app” for the Xbox platform. It’s also in an interesting position where it’s both an important release for Microsoft and a potential participant in a major setback for the company. Before then, Bethesda was all in on Elder Scrolls and the occasional licensed game.

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Former Amazon exec inherits Microsoft’s complex cybersecurity legacy in quest to solve ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’

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Charlie Bell, a former Amazon Web Services executive, is now the leader of Microsoft’s newly formed, 10,000-person security engineering organization. Microsoft Photo). And the security of Microsoft’s software is still falling well short of Gates’ vision. “Your code will be attacked.”

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