If you have a work PC, chances are you'll soon see the latest twist on Microsoft's browser: Microsoft Edge for Business, complete with (of course) AI. At its Microsoft Build developer conference this week, Microsoft will announce several tweaks to Edge, including its first dedicated business browser. Microsoft calls the new Edge the "standard browser experience for organizations," with its own separate logo and icon on your taskbar. You'll see more in the Edge sidebar, too: the inclusion of Microsoft 365 Copilot, web apps, and a new "Workspaces" collection of tabs that can be simultaneously shared and browsed with coworkers. Microsoft Edge already allows you to browse and open windows in both a personal and business account.

On Wednesday, ChatGPT announced a $20 per-month subscription plan, which will ensure subscribers receive access to quick responses and priority access to new features and updates. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it will be making OpenAI's ChatGPT available with its Azure OpenAI suite of services. As per an official announcement, enterprise customers who use Azure cloud services will also have access to ChatGPT through Azure OpenAI services and can apply for access to AI models including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2. In a tweet, Satya Nadella shared, "ChatGPT is coming soon to the Azure OpenAI Service, which is now generally available, as we help customers apply the world's most advanced AI models to their own business imperatives." Eric Boyd, Corporate Vice President, AI Platform at Microsoft in a blog shared that Azure OpenAI service is now generally available and will enable businesses to"apply for access to the most advanced AI models in the world--including GPT-3.5, Codex, and DALL•E 2--backed by the trusted enterprise-grade capabilities and AI-optimized infrastructure of Microsoft Azure, to create cutting-edge applications." Azure is also the core computing power behind OpenAI API's family of models for research advancement and developer productivity.

You'd think that collaborative chatting programs like Slack or Teams wouldn't need too many bells and whistles in order to be effective tools. Microsoft would beg to differ. The new Teams Premium tier not only includes the usual unlimited messages and better organizational tools, it's adding exclusive powers enabled by OpenAI's GPT 3.5 language model. The new tier will be $10 per month per user starting on June 30th, but you can get a cheaper preview for $7 until then. What does the fancy AI do?

Microsoft is rolling out a revamped personalized news service called Start. The feed will be baked into the Windows 10 taskbar and the Windows 11 widgets section. You can also access it via the web, iOS and Android apps and the new tab page in Microsoft Edge. Start draws from Microsoft's artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise (as well as human curation) to create a news feed featuring up-to-date info tailored to your interests. The more you use Start and indicate what you're interested in, the closer the feed will hew to the things you prefer to read about.

Technology major Microsoft on Wednesday announced the general availability of its Dynamics 365 Project Operations solution in India. The solution, the Redmond, Washington-based company said, aims to help service-based businesses unify operational workflows for better visibility, collaboration and insights. It will utilise real-time analytics to connect leadership, sales, resourcing, project management and accounting teams to offer better visibility and insights, a statement said. Clients will be able to tackle challenges arising from disparate systems and data silos and address inadequacies in areas of client expansion, collaboration between project managers, workforce optimisation and have better agility among business leaders, it said. The solution will also offer customers business insights, data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities for faster decision making and visibility, while enabling sales and project managers to accelerate sales cycle and project delivery.

The free instructional videos and case studies focus on the less technical aspects of the technology as it applies to top execs attempting to integrate AI, including strategy, company culture and ethical responsibilities, into their operations. They're the latest in a series of instructional materials Microsoft has released as it looks to address a general lack of educational resources and talent in the AI field. The material was inspired by conversations Microsoft has had over the past three years with client executives, whom the company said felt there was a dearth of educational resources on AI that reached beyond the nuts-and-bolts technical level, according to Mitra Azizirad, Microsoft's corporate vp of AI marketing and productization. "[The goal] really was to approach the very distinct business needs that we saw all of our business leaders have been asking about over and over again," Azizirad said. "We wanted to make sure we were meeting the needs of business leaders and really empowering them, no matter where they were on their journey, to drive an AI transformation with a focus on strategy, culture and governance."

Microsoft is making available to its Windows Insiders testers the first Windows 10 Desktop test build that includes its new'Project Spartan' browser. Today's Windows 10 Desktop preview is the second Microsoft has made available to testers in March, and the fourth Windows 10 Desktop build the company has released as of October 1, 2014. Like Windows 10 Desktop -- which runs on PCs, laptops and tablets -- Spartan is still not feature-complete at this point. The first Spartan preview does, however, include most of the functionality that Microsoft execs showed off on January 21 during an early demo of Spartan as part of a Windows 10 press event. Specifically, the integration between Spartan and Cortana, Microsoft's personal digital assistant, is in today's Windows 10 release, as is the "Ask Cortana" user assistance technology.

The next version of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database management system is now available, and along with it comes a special offer designed specifically to woo Oracle customers. Until the end of this month, Oracle users can migrate their databases to SQL Server 2016 and receive the necessary licenses for free with a subscription to Microsoft's Software Assurance maintenance program. Microsoft announced the June 1 release date for SQL Server 2016 early last month. Among the more notable enhancements it brings are updateable, in-memory column stores and advanced analytics. As a result, applications can now deploy sophisticated analytics and machine learning models within the database at performance levels as much as 100 times faster than what they'd be outside it, Microsoft said.