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

GeekWire

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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Microsoft's Docs.com is sharing dangerously sensitive personal files and information

Network World

If you use Microsoft’s Docs.com to store personal documents, stop reading this and make sure you aren’t inadvertently leaking your private information to the world. Microsoft sets any documents uploaded to the document sharing site as public by default—though it appears that many users aren’t aware of it.

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CIOs take aim at SaaS sprawl

CIO Business Intelligence

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.

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Paul G. Allen Family Foundation giving $1.4M in COVID-19 relief aimed at underserved communities

GeekWire

The foundation, originally founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and his sister Jody Allen, said Monday the new funding focuses on food security and child care, among other needs, and builds on previous aid totaling $12 million from the foundation. Allen Family Foundation is giving an additional $1.4 Pride Foundation ?

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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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Cloud, SaaS boost Oracle sales, but competition exacts costs

CIO Business Intelligence

In the financial services sector, Oracle signed TD Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Societe Generale in France, and the company expects to close a deal with BNP Paribas soon, Ellison said, according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha. For example, in comparison, Microsoft reported $22.1 And Oracle has tough competition ahead.

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