New York – – November 03, 2026 -- Egan-Jones Ratings warns that free open-source software and artificial intelligence are weakening software incumbents' staying power, and that some credit models overstate how secure incumbency is. The commentary is addressed to institutional investors and risk managers holding software and platform credit.

ABU DHABI – November 01, 2026 -- Context Labs B.V. launched the AI Distillery, a Context Engine that converts an enterprise's operational and business data into a governed, customer-owned Context Package. The package works with any frontier or open-weight model and runs inside the customer's own environment. The product is available now through the Microsoft Marketplace.

NEW YORK – October 30, 2026 -- Concurrence, the healthcare data and AI company formerly known as Amigo, has made its Health World Model and AI agents available on Microsoft Marketplace, with eligible purchases counting toward customers' Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC).

BOSTON – October 29, 2026 -- IANS has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server for Microsoft Copilot generally available, giving security teams access to peer decision data, vendor assessments and practitioner insight inside Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Reindeer, an enterprise agentic AI company, has made its platform available on Microsoft Marketplace, letting Azure customers buy it against existing Azure Consumption Commitments and run its AI agents in a single-tenant Azure environment. The company also joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- Security provider Wirespeed says reviews of new customers' previous 90 days of detections routinely uncover suspicious logins on MFA-enforced accounts that existing tools never surfaced, some dating back weeks.

The sessions go unflagged because the authentication evidence looks clean: valid credentials, a satisfied MFA prompt and a valid issued session. A stolen session token carries the authentication context that created it, so the assertion of strong authentication travels with the attacker.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- No single tool replaces an Excel macro end to end: six options (Power Query, Office Scripts, Power Automate, Python, RPA and Alteryx One) each cover a different slice of the work, according to a new comparison of automation approaches.

Power Query and Office Scripts cover data preparation and workbook tasks

Power Query suits macros that mainly import files and cleanse data, and it can reshape and aggregate data before loading it. It handles button clicks, workbook events and precise output formatting poorly.

Wilmington, Del. – October 21, 2026 -- Thinking Streams Inc. has launched ThinkingStreams, an agentic marketing automation platform for B2B teams that integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365 and runs AI agents inside the marketing system rather than in a separate chat window.

Global – October 21, 2026 -- Lightbeam AI expects enterprise software in healthcare, life sciences and other industries to be rewritten around agentic AI platforms over the next five years (2025-2030), according to a roadmap from a company executive.

Europe – October 20, 2026 -- Capgemini and Microsoft are offering cities an as-a-service, AI-native City Support Center that merges multi-agency data into one operating picture for floods and urban heat events, aiming to avoid the cost of bespoke platform builds.