THE PROMPT for Microsoft Security - Issue #55
Securing the Digital Stockings: Because Even Hackers Want a Piece of the Holiday Pie
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Microsoft Entra @ Microsoft Ignite 2025
This is a special edition of Entra.News listing all the Microsoft Entra related sessions available online at this month's Microsoft Ignite
👋 Hi folks, Merill and Joshua here with a special Microsoft Ignite edition of Entra News!
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THE PROMPT for Microsoft Security - Issue #54
Things from Me
Entra 🆔 News #121 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about upcoming Entra sessions at Ignite, changes to Authenticator app and more.
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍. With Ignite just around the corner, it’s shaping up to be a big month for Entra. Expect major announcements!
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Thank you very much for referring to my reference implementation of an MCP scenario in TS! 🫶
Entra 🆔 News #122 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Learn about GA of Group Source of Authority, Public Preview of User SOA and more...
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Regarding this week's Entra news, it's insightful how robust identitiy management remains paramount, especially with AI increasingly influencing security architectures.
Microsoft Purview at Microsoft Ignite
Purview from Afar: Guiding Data While Dodging Conference Coffee
I won’t be there personally this year (sadly, it’s my first miss since 2015), but for those attending Microsoft Ignite this year, the Purview team looks forward to seeing you.
THE PROMPT for Microsoft Security - Issue #53
Your weekly dose of ‘don’t get breached’ wisdom
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Sentinel Transition To Defender Helper Script
Sentinel customers, this one is for you.
Sentinel customers, this one is for you.
The New Frontier in Third-Party Risk Management - Microsoft External Access
Access and Application Security - Third-Party Risk Management Practical Thoughts!
Hey everyone, welcome back to the blog. Today, I want to explore a topic that’s become increasingly relevant in light of several recent high-profile breaches across the UK. Grab a coffee, let me give you a perspective on third-party and supplier risk management, particularly how it intersects with Microsoft access, applications, and your tenant-based id…
Wow, this is such a good breakdown, really appreciate you tackling this. That point about 'relationship resilience' is so spot on; it's easy to focus on static pen tests, but cross-tenant risks are a whole different beast that needs more proactive thinking than most orgs do rite now.
Databricks: Why It’s the #1 Choice for Modern Data Engineering
Imagine asking your data a question in plain English—and getting an accurate answer in seconds.
Microsoft & The Geopolitics of Compute
Just a few days ago, Microsoft announced a multi-billion-dollar investment in the UAE, which also enabled it to ship, for the first time, the most advanced NVIDIA AI Chips to the region.
💻 Microsoft + OpenAI's Wild Ride
Azure’s outlook brightens, but execution risk remains
Welcome to the Free edition of How They Make Money.
Agent Mode in Microsoft Excel
Incredible power through natural language
I’ve been so busy these days playing with AI products it’s been hard to find time to write about some of my successes. One such success is that I’m building an iOS app using Cursor with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Claude Code. I’ve been working on this app for nearly 2 months, and it’s written about 15,000 lines of code for me. I will finish up this app and t…
Omar, great to see you working on passion projects, in your copious free time! And thanks for writing about Excel and your experience using AI to build something awesome! I started working on Excel years before you and I met. It was awesome all along, but the Excel team has continued to add awesomeness to it all these years. They added that LET() function that your solution uses just a few years ago. LET allows Excel to save an intermediate value in a variable, right there in your function, making functions much easier to read, debug, and maintain. (The old way of parsing information out of long strings required one to repeat the same functions and ranges multiple times inside the main function.) They added a LAMBDA() function too, which unlocks bonkers levels of sophistication without ever needing to write custom code.
Microsoft Powers $9.7B GPU Surge
Edition #214 | 14 November 2025
Microsoft Secures $9.7B AI Cloud Deal with IREN to Boost Data Infrastructure Using High-Density GPU Clusters
Massive Expansions From Anthropic, Microsoft
Anthropic Plans $50 Billion Buildout, Microsoft Unveils New Fairwater Campus in Atlanta
It’s been a busy day on the AI infrastructure front, with two major announcements:
Small Language Models & Context Engineering Roundtable
With Microsoft AI's Marlene Mhangami
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Innovating Out Loud with Regenerous Labs - November 19th at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
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Live With Satya Nadella on the new OpenAI Partnership
OpenAI-Microsoft: The Next Chapter
Happy Tuesday.
The evolution from a $1B investmnt in 2019 to today's restructured partnership really illustrates how strategic patience pays off in emerging tech. What strikes me most is how both companies managed to maintain alignment through OpenAI's rapid growth - that's no small feat given the complexity of balancing open research ideals with commercial realities. Looking forward to seeing how the revised equity structure influences future product development and deployment strategies.
Microsoft and OpenAI Define the Relationship
A $250 billion framework for power, profit, and the future of intelligence.
After years of maneuvering and mistrust, the world’s most consequential corporate relationship in AI has finally reached an equilibrium. Before market open this morning, Microsoft and OpenAI published the new terms of their uneasy marriage - a contract that formalizes the balance of power at the center of artificial intelligence.
Great analysis!
It feels more and more that we have a huge elephant in the room, aka energy resources/investment. Would love to hear your thoughts on this. It doesn’t take a genius to see that Tech firms cannot suddenly become utility companies and that the AI infrastructure investment does not make financial sense.
Brilliant analysis of what's essentially a corporate peace treaty. Your framing of it as a "mutual hostage situation" is perfect - both parties constrained yet empowered. The AGI Verification Board is indeed hilarious; imagine being the person who has to declare "yep, that's AGI folks." Your point about the $250B commitment being an energy policy rather than a compute contract is crucial - this is infrastructure colonization disguised as cloud spending. The shift to Public Benefit Corporation status is fascinating; OpenAI positioning for regulatory scrutiny while Microsoft locks in the API moat. The "moats with escape hatches" framing captures Nadella's strategy beautifully. This isn't partnership, it's mutual insurance against an uncertain futre. The fact that they're extending IP rights through 2032 suggests they both believe AGI timelines are shorter than public messaging indicates. Excellent piece!
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)
Q1 2026 Results. Cloud Acceleration
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This article comes at the perfect time, following up nicely on your previous Microsoft insights. Do you think the OpenAI loss will change how they aproach future AI investments?
Tech Slides, Nvidia Goes Global + Microsoft Moves
Your ThinkFISH Edge: this week’s Current + 3 teams that are executing well
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