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Microsoft and Postel: An Innovative New Data and AI-Driven Solution to Optimize Italian SMEs’ Relationships with Their Customers

eriinfo.com2 days ago04 mins

The Marketing Data Platform combines AI-powered market intelligence, first-party data and omnichannel activation to help SMEs analyze market trends and historical campaign performance, turning insights into audiences and increasingly targeted future actions. Microsoft and Postel, a Poste Italiane Group company, announce an evolution of their collaboration and of the agreements they have signed for the…

Microsoft to offer voluntary buyouts to senior US employees

eriinfo.com1 week ago03 mins

Microsoft is preparing to further reduce its US headcount through its first-ever voluntary buyout program, according to reports from CNBC. The initiative targets veteran employees at the senior director level and below whose combined age and years of service total 70 or higher. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Is the AI bubble…

Microsoft slashes Xbox Game Pass prices in big strategy shift

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago05 mins

Microsoft has slashed the price of Xbox Game Pass in South Africa and globally, less than six months after imposing the steepest price increases in the subscription service’s history. The climbdown is the first major strategic move under new Xbox chief Asha Sharma, and it comes alongside a significant rollback of one of Game Pass’s…

Core launches Microsoft Surface reseller programme for SA SMEs

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago03 mins

Core has launched a Microsoft Surface Reseller Programme aimed at expanding opportunities for small and mid-sized IT resellers in South Africa. The programme gives partners access to Surface for Business devices, along with training, technical support and sales enablement to help them grow their operations. It forms part of a broader push to strengthen the…

Simplify Microsoft Teams calling with Telviva

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago09 mins

The author, Telviva’s Rob Lith Even as South African organisations embrace online and collaborative working, along with remote and hybrid working environments enabled through tools such as Microsoft’s productivity suite, voice calling has remained a separate system, often because of the technical challenges and high costs associated with integration. It is not ideal for an…

Microsoft is sacrificing Edge on the altar of Copilot

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago011 mins

In the late 1990s, Microsoft learnt a lesson it seems to have spent the last two decades trying to forget: you cannot force a user to love a product through sheer technical coercion. Back then, the weapon of choice was the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows, a move that eventually triggered a landmark antitrust…

ITWeb TV: Microsoft SA CEO talks SMME development, upskilling at scale

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago010 mins

Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati says the nation’s catalyst for growth and employment lies in building SMMEs, as well as ensuring people are upskilled at scale for the transition into the world of AI. #Microsoft #AI #Cloud South Africa’s prospects for economic growth and employment creation lie in building the small, medium and micro…

Microsoft SA CEO talks SMME development, upskilling at scale

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago09 mins

Vukani Mngxati, CEO of Microsoft South Africa. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) South Africa’s prospects for economic growth and employment creation lie in building the small, medium and micro enterprise (SMME) value chain. This is according to Microsoft South Africa CEO Vukani Mngxati, who was a guest on ITWeb TV. He also discussed heading up the…

Microsoft revamps Copilot in workplace AI push

eriinfo.com1 month ago03 mins

Microsoft is integrating technology linked to Claude – an AI model developed by Anthropic – into Copilot. Microsoft has rolled out a new set of features for its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform, including tools for complex, multi-step work and deeper research tasks, as competition in workplace artificial intelligence (AI) intensifies. The update introduces Copilot Cowork,…

Microsoft rolls out big Copilot upgrades

eriinfo.com1 month ago04 mins

Microsoft has unveiled new features in its Copilot research assistant that would allow users to utilise multiple AI models simultaneously within the same workflow, the latest move by the tech giant to improve its AI offering and boost adoption. In a new feature called “Critique”, Copilot’s Researcher agent will now be able to pull outputs…