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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services.
Microsoft announced Thursday new investments in technologies and programs designed to support its partner ecosystem. The investments are aimed at helping optimise Microsoft’s partner engagement for the cloud era.
Microsoft has entered into an agreement to acquire Affirmed Networks, a privately held, Boston (USA)-based vendor of 4/5G mobile core networking software, for a reported USD1.35 billion at the end of March 2020.
bp and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate as strategic partners to further digital transformation in energy systems and advance the net zero carbon goals of both companies. This includes a co-innovation effort focused on digital solutions, the continued use of Microsoft Azure as a cloud-based solution for bp infrastructure and bp supplying renewable energy.
SAP and Microsoft are to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP’s intelligent suite of solutions. The companies also formalized an extensive expansion of an existing strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of SAP S/4HANA on Microsoft Azure.
A US federal judge has granted Amazon’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Defense from proceeding with a $10bn US defence contract awarded to Microsoft while the case is litigated.
At the National Retail Federation's Annual Convention & EXPO on Monday, Microsoft and CKE Restaurants (parent company of Hardee's® and Carl's Jr.®) will showcase a self-order kiosk solution running on Windows 8 devices that enables Hardee's customers to customize and place their own orders.
Microsoft has previously tried to integrate Android applications into Windows 10 via a project called Astoria which never really came to fruition.
Novartis has founded the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selected Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort.
As part of its digital transformation, Bank of America is turning to the Microsoft Cloud to help deliver new business efficiencies, support digital culture change and better meet customer needs.
Microsoft have officially launched the latest version of  Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) together with an update to its .NET framework.
Watch Communications and Microsoft partner to bring broadband internet to Indiana, Ohio and Illinois
Watch Communications and Microsoft have announced an agreement aimed at closing the broadband gap, and the rural digital divide in particular, in the states of Indiana, Ohio and Illinois.
