Your costs are about to shoot straight to the Moon — and unlike the astronauts, they’re not coming back.

On April 1, 2026, four astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft departed Earth orbit for the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years. On April 6, they flew past the Moon at 4,067 miles above the surface, which is the closest humans have come to the lunar...

It wasn’t that long ago that everybody, including your correspondent, was hailing Satya Nadella as the “philosopher-king” of technology: Microsoft had seemingly beaten all the others to the punch as the first mover in enterprise AI. FOMO-driven companies signed huge contracts for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure’s AI features. The stock price soared.

Now, Microsoft’s...

Microsoft 365 is not simply the largest licensing component of the Enterprise Agreement (EA). It also is the place where Microsoft can most clearly read where you are heading — what you are adopting, what you are ignoring, and how committed you are to the broader ecosystem. Every workload deployed, every capability left unused, every third-party t...

If you use M365 Copilot, or more specifically Copilot Chat, get ready for a number of changes on April 15

Microsoft announced in the M365 Admin Message Center two significant changes to Copilot Chat, coinciding with general availability of advanced reasoning for the service. Microsoft will be updating the names of M365 Copilot and Copilot Chat,...

Pavan Davuluri, executive vice president, Windows + Devices, has declared new priorities for Windows development in a March 20 letter to the company’s “Insider” beta testers. If the promises pan out, the Windows division and its...