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It's not often that you find someone writing about open source software and not bothering to make mention of the licences being used. But that's precisely what Albert Zhang of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, a lobby group for big tech and foreign agencies, has done.

Microsoft decided to invest in OpenAI after a warning from a company official that Google had taken a big lead in the technology, Ars Technica reports.

After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.

Under Constant Threat of Attack, CXOs Can Affordably Test their Cyber Recovery Plans On- Demand and Orchestrate Rapid Recovery to a Clean Location in the Cloud

COMPANY NEWS: Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is announcing a new era in cleanroom technology.

Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) hyperscale data centre specialist AirTrunk has signed a solar power purchase agreement with Hong Kong utility provider CLP Power to help its customer, Microsoft, achieve 100% renewable energy by 2025.

A state-level actor, suspected to be from Russia and known as APT28 or Forest Blizzard, has been using malware known as GooseEgg to exploit a vulnerability within the Windows Print Spooler service.

Expanded partnership will leverage Microsoft Copilot and Cognizant’s advisory and digital transformation services to help employees and enterprise customers operationalise generative AI and realise strategic business transformation.

COMPANY NEWS:

• Elevation of Privilege is the top vulnerability category for the fourth year running, accounting for 40% of all Microsoft vulnerabilities in 2023
• Total vulnerabilities maintain 4-year holding pattern near record highs

COMPANY NEWS: Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, today announced the appointment of Gurdeep Singh Pall as its first-ever president, AI strategy.

COMPANY NEWS:  Digital finance transformation leader adds former Apptio, Amazon Web Services,and Microsoft leader to oversee global technology direction

When it comes to the Office productivity suite, Microsoft Office is supreme. While there are several budgetary choices, they can all be summed up as "Office substitutions.

COMPANY NEWS:  Leading advisory and IT solutions provider, Atturra, has signed a multi-year contract with Brisbane Grammar School for the delivery of a Student Information System (SIS) using Microsoft Dynamics 365, which will simplify administrative processes and unlock new learning and service delivery capabilities.

COMPANY NEWS:  With a new Flex solution for Microsoft Teams, customers can seamlessly integrate Access4’s proprietary Enhanced User features alongside the cost-effective Basic Channel solution - all within the same tenancy. This innovative approach allows for a scalable and adaptable mixed user environment, perfectly tailored to meet the diverse and demanding requirements of MS Teams Calling customers.

Microsoft has addressed 147 CVEs in its Patch Tuesday release for April, including three critical vulnerabilities.

A suspected Russian intrusion into Microsoft's corporate systems, which was disclosed in January, also affected US federal government systems, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The original maintainer of the xz Utils package, which was backdoored and almost distributed to production Linux systems, is yet to make any public comment about the incident, saying he first needs to understand the situation thoroughly.

Microsoft has been mauled over "a cascade of security failures" that led to a breach of the company's Azure cloud platform by a group known as Storm-0558, with the US Cyber Safety Review Board concluding that the intrusion "should never have happened".

Enterprise microsegmentation company, ColorTokens, has announced the appointment of Amol Kulkarni to its Board of Advisors.

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COMPANY NEWS: Microsoft has consistently been a pioneer and architect of digital innovations that raises the bar for what technology can accomplish – especially within cybersecurity. Their mission to empower every organisation to achieve more is highlighted in advancements in new products – including the recent announcement of Surface Pro 10 for Business which prioritises security and user experience.