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Microsoft Refreshes Its Azure AI Certification Landscape

If you hold or are preparing for a Microsoft Azure AI certification, changes are coming in June 2026. Two new exams redefine what it means to be AI-ready on Azure.

Microsoft 365 E7 – The Frontier Suite, Or When Experimentation Needs to Scale

The pilot phase is over. Organisations that spent the last couple of years running AI proof-of-concepts are now asking a harder question: how do we scale, across every employee, with governance that actually holds? Microsoft’s answer, announced on March 9, 2026, is Microsoft 365 E7: The “Frontier Suite” and will be generally available from May 1.

Microsoft 365 Gets Pricier: AI and Security Drive July 2026 Increase

Microsoft will raise prices for its commercial Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites starting July 1, 2026. The company announced increases ranging from 5% to 33% depending on the plans.

Liechtenstein Surpasses Switzerland with 25 Gbps Fiber Rollout

Telecom Liechtenstein will launch 25 Gigabit per second symmetric fiber internet nationwide on December 9. The Principality claims to become the first country offering such speeds to every household and business.

Windows 10 End-of-Life: One Week Left – What Now?

If you’re still running Windows 10, this concerns you. In exactly one week, on October 14, Microsoft will officially send Windows 10 to oblivion (and, as a side-effect, millions of PCs to waste). What does this mean? No more security updates, no bug fixes, no technical support. For an operating system that has been running on millions of devices worldwide for a decade, this is a significant moment.

Privacy Icons aims at personal data handling transparency

3 days ago, an association of several of big Swiss companies, Migros, Swisscom, SBB-CFF or Credit Suisse presented the outcomes of a joint project helping the consumers to understand the processing purpose of their personal data they could give to these companies. It...

PDF Forms Processing with Microsoft AI Builder – Part 2

In the previous post, we saw how to create and train a Form Processing model, a tool released in preview last June and available in the AI Builder box of Power Automate. In this second post, we are going to use that model in a Flow, so that it will take files from a...

PDF Forms Processing with Microsoft AI Builder – Part 1

Last June, Microsoft introduced AI Builder, which is an artificial platform that can be integrated in a Power Platform low-code application. It is still in preview, and since that day, I wanted to give it a try and find an interesting use case to test these new...

Still Alive !

Is this blog still alive ? Well, after more than 3 years of inactivity, it is a legitimate question. In these last 3 years many things happened as one can imagine, also within the Atos organization in Switzerland (the one I am working for, in case this wasn't yet...

DeployR Enterprise 8.0.5 – Some Configuration Hurdles

Currently having some Linux machines on which DeployR Enterprise 8.0.5 must be deployed, I faced a nice bug in the DeployR configuration utility. First, I started to deploy a "Microsoft R Server on Linux??? from the Azure marketplace. The setup is rather simple, and...

Preparing a public speech

I am quite used to give public speeches, as multiple times I was speaker at conferences or internal meetings. But, several weeks ago, the speech I gave had mainly 2 objectives : giving an overview of IBIS, and, promoting our internal Toastmasters club. For this...

Meeting minutes issue

How many meetings do you attend ?From that number of attended meeting, do you read the minutes you receive ? Then, imagine that the meeting minutes are sent several days after the meeting took place, as a e-mail's attachment. Chances are that you will not even open...

Setting the local draft folder for Open Live Writer

The 9th of december last year (announcements on Scott Hanselman blog and the .NET foundation), Windows Live Writer became Open Live Writer and at the same time became open source through the .NET Foundation. For different licensing and complexity hurdles, several...

Error when opening Zachman Framework Example model in EA

After the install of the Zachman Framework MDG Add-in for Sparx Enterprise Architect, there is an issue when we want to open the provided sample, ZF Example. EA complains that it "couldn't lock file". One way to successfully open this file is to run EA as an...

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