Microsoft Introduces a More Personalized Copilot with Voice and Vision Features

Microsoft Unveils Major Update to Copilot, Elevating It into a Personalized AI Companion 

A New Era of Personalized AI Assistance 

October 10, 2024–Microsoft recently announced updates to Copilot, transforming the AI assistant into a more personalized, interactive, and intuitive part of daily life. With the introduction of voice and vision capabilities, Copilot is now more integrated than ever, offering a seamless, hands-free experience. 

Imagine beginning your day with Copilot reading the latest news or guiding you through a recipe, step by step. Thanks to its enhanced voice feature, you can now converse with Copilot as naturally as you would with a friend—simply ask a question and receive an instant, conversational response. Whether you’re organizing your day or checking the weather, Copilot is designed to support your every need. 

Darwinbox and Microsoft announce collaboration to redefine the future of work

Darwinbox to empower organizations globally to elevate employee experience through deep integrations between its HCM SaaS platform and Microsoft product ecosystem.

Demonstrating almost 6.5x growth in the Philippines in 12 months since its Unicorn funding, Darwinbox is sprinting towards market leadership in Asia.  

Darwinbox, the fastest-growing HR tech unicorn, and Microsoft today announced a collaboration to empower organizations globally with the right tools to succeed in the evolving world of work. The collaboration will include deep integrations between Darwinbox and the Microsoft product ecosystem, and co-innovation on solutions to enhance employee experience. The relationship will also accelerate joint go-to-market motions in all markets that the leading Human Capital Management player operates in.  In addition to the co-innovation roadmap, Microsoft has also made an equity investment in Darwinbox to accelerate their mission of empowering organizations to unify their entire employee lifecycle.  

Fortinet Recognized as Winner of Microsoft’s 2020 Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year

Award Underscores Fortinet’s Commitment to Enable Easy and Secure Deployment of SaaS, VM or Container Security Solutions to Protect Azure Workloads and Application 

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced it has won Microsoft’s 2020 Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year award. Fortinet was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. 

SAS and Microsoft partner to further shape the future of analytics and AI

SAS’ AI and analytics more tightly integrate with Microsoft Azure; Microsoft to bring cloud-based SAS industry solutions to its customers

Microsoft Corp. and SAS today announced an extensive technology and go-to-market strategic partnership. The two companies will enable customers to easily run their SAS® workloads in the cloud, expanding their business solutions and unlocking critical value from their digital transformation initiatives. As part of the partnership, the companies will migrate SAS’ analytical products and industry solutions onto Microsoft Azure as the preferred cloud provider for the SAS Cloud. SAS’ industry solutions and expertise will also bring added value to Microsoft’s customers across health care, financial services and many other industries. This partnership builds on SAS integrations across Microsoft cloud solutions for Azure, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and Power Platform and supports the companies’ shared vision to further democratize AI and analytics.

The four types of cyberthreats Filipinos should know

Microsoft Security Intelligence report determines top cyberthreats in the Philippines

Filipinos spend a lot of their time online—whether it be on their personal computers, tablets or mobile phones. In a digital report released by We Are Social and Hootsuite on January 2019, the Philippines was recognized as the country with the highest number of hours spent on the internet per day, with an average internet consumption of 10 hours and 2 mins.

Microsoft and Frost & Sullivan Study reveals that Cybersecurity threats to cost organizations in the Philippines US$3.5 billion in economic losses

A Frost & Sullivan study commissioned by Microsoft revealed that the potential economic loss in the Philippines due to cybersecurity incidents can hit a staggering US$3.5 billion. This is 1.1 percent of the Philippines’ total GDP of US$305 billion[1].

The study, titled “Understanding the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in Asia Pacific: Securing the Modern Enterprise in a Digital World”, aims to provide business and IT decision makers with insights on the economic cost of cybersecurity breaches in the region and identify the gaps in organizations’ cybersecurity strategies. The study involved a survey of 1,300 business and IT decision makers ranging from mid-sized organizations (250 to 499 employees) to large-sized organizations (>than 500 employees). 

The study reveals that more than half of the organizations surveyed in the Philippines have either experienced a cybersecurity incident (18%) or are not sure if they had one as they have not performed proper forensics or data breach assessment (34%).

Windows 10 is Here! To Upgrade or Not Upgrade?

Windows 10 is here and it is free!

Many has been anticipating the official rollout of Windows 10 to existing windows 7 and 8 users for free, and what makes it more exciting is the features that it brings to users. They said it is the "Best Windows Ever" and has mixed receptions for new and exiting Microsoft users. But is there a need to upgrade to the new windows 10?

Let us look at some of the features and decipher them according to their use:

PLDT, Microsoft to boost PH IT education, launches Digital Campus Suite

Leading telecoms and multi-media service provider PLDT, through its business unit PLDT SME Nation, has launched together with global IT giant Microsoft Philippines a new service package called the Digital Campus Suite that will enable students and academes access to online learning programs and to earn IT (Information technology) certifications for critical IT skills that are now in-demand in today’s digitally driven industries. 

“We at PLDT are confident that this partnership can significantly contribute to enriching the digital content of Philippine education. By enabling schools through these programs, we are helping them, both educator and student, to gain new critical skills and learn IT courses with globally competitive technology programs that have become essential in today’s digital work place,” said PLDT Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan.