Mozilla has decided to give Firefox for Windows 8 the bullet. Firefox states that development for a modern Windows 8 app...
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BroadPoint Technologies announced today it has become the newest member of the Microsoft GovCon Alliance. The Alliance is a cross-section of Microsoft Dynamics partners with expertise in meeting the unique system needs of government contractors.
BlackBerry and Microsoft announced today that they have partnered to release BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE, combining some of Microsoft's most popular programs with BlackBerry's secure, mobile working tools. The new service allows customers to access Microsoft mobile apps from within the BlackBerry Dynamics service - available on any iOS or Android device.
The project AstridDAO being built on Astar has officially partnered with Microsoft, bringing huge implications for the ecosystem as a whole.
Armour Communications has announced its integration with Skype for Business. Armour Mobile is now able to connect to Skype for Business using standard Cisco SIP-based technology.
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter today announced the Data Transfer Project, a joint open-source project aimed at helping users securely and seamlessly move their data between service providers. This open source project will create new capabilities for direct data portability between participating service providers.
In a complaint filed before the European Commission, the EU's top competition regulator, Slack has accused Microsoft of antitrust violations for tying its Teams to Microsoft Office products.
Microsoft is rolling out of new custom background effects in Teams, along with new features in the free version of Teams.
Microsoft today announced revenue of $23.20 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. Gross margin, operating income and diluted earnings per share (“EPSâ€Â) for the quarter were $14.93 billion, $5.84 billion and $0.54 per share, respectively.
Microsoft, has expanded its global payments relationship with Worldpay from FIS, where Worldpay will provide online credit and debit card processing for Microsoft online store fronts including, Xbox, Microsoft Advertising, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft brands in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Microsoft will become the sole offtaker of the energy generated by the Wilkinson Solar Energy Center, a 74-megawatt solar project in North Carolina that will be constructed, owned and operated by Invenergy after the companies today announced a 74-megawatt solar project in North Carolina.
Microsoft has unveiled a new set of Open App Store Principles that will apply to the Microsoft Store on Windows and to the next-generation marketplaces the company will build for games.
Microsoft sued Kyocera for patent infringement on Friday, alleging the Japanese company's Duraforce, Hydro and Brigadier cell phone lines violate seven Microsoft patents.
Netflix has selected Microsoft as its global technology and sales partner for its first ever ad-supported subscription streaming offering.
Microsoft has announced that on July 20, the company will launch the final version of its Visual Studio 2015 software development tools.
Lenovo today announced its latest portfolio of laptops and desktops specifically designed for the small and medium business.
Microsoft has announced that Sway for Windows 10 is now rolling out to the Windows Store. Sway for Windows combines the full richness of Sway on the web with additional capabilities on your PC or tablet.
Microsoft and Rubrik have signed a strategic agreement that includes a Microsoft equity investment in Rubrik to drive go to market activities and co-engineering projects to deliver integrated Zero Trust data protection solutions built on Microsoft Azure.
WhatsApp for Windows Mobile is currently in Beta phase and a video out of Brazil shows some of the new...
Microsoft has joined an informal coalition with four European publisher lobbying groups to draft and propose regulations that "mandate payment" for news content by "gatekeepers that have dominant market power,".
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft announced a broad, strategic partnership.
Microsoft has revealed a strategic change in its retail operations, including closing Microsoft Store physical location.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the general availability of Microsoft Teams, the company's new chat-based workspace in Office 365. The new tool for team collaboration is now available to Office 365 business customers.
Microsoft and Samsung are teaming up to let users tap into the power of Your Phone app with Link to Windows integration on select Samsung devices to instantly access your phone’s mobile apps directly from your Windows 10 PC.
BlackBerry Enterprise BRIDGE is an app that incorporates both the BlackBerry Dynamics and Microsoft Intune app-level MAM features—i.e. it’s a part of both proprietary ecosystems. For example, this allows users to securely move documents back and forth between the BlackBerry Work email client and Microsoft Word.
AT&T and Microsoft have entered into a major multiyear cloud/5G deal where Microsoft will be the preferred cloud provider for non-network applications, as part of AT&T's broader public cloud first strategy, and will support AT&T as it consolidates its data centre infrastructure and operations.
Microsoft is working on an advanced version of its digital assistant, Cortana, using research from an artificial intelligence project called "Einstein."
Microsoft has finally brought availability zones to the south of Brazil in São Paulo State, as part of Microsoft's "More Brazil" plan, and comes at the same time IBM is announcing its first multi-zone region in the country.
Microsoft today unveiled Windows 11, the first major update to the platform since the launch of Windows 10 nearly six years ago. Windows 11 features a cleaner interface and pushes further toward a mobile-friendly environment inspired by shifts to how PCs have been used amid a COVID-19 pandemic forcing many to work remotely.
Microsoft President Brad Smith has said it’s time for antitrust regulators in the U.S. and Europe to discuss tactics that app stores use to take advantage of those who want to distribute their software.
Microsoft has released a series of OneDrive updates across Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. The updates don’t bring the same...
Microsoft Windows 11, the first major update to the platform since the launch of Windows 10 nearly six years ago, will start to become available on October 5, 2021.
Automatic Pairing of Large User Bases With Office 365 Licenses Cuts Out the Complexity of Assigning the Correct Licenses to...
Microsoft has joined Allianz, Amazon and S&P Global in announcing plans to launch the Climate Finance Foundation, a new initiative led by the Linux Foundation to build the OS-Climate Platform. This initiative leverages open-source analytics and open data to empower the investment community, as well as NGOs, academia and others, to help better model companies’ exposure to climate change.
BlackBerry have released Beta 3 of BlackBerry Blend v1.2, which is now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone for eligible beta testers.
Windows Phone 8.1 is now available to download for those in the Preview for Developers program. Windows Phone 8.1 is the...
Microsoft today posted a $3.1bn (£2.4bn) profit for the three months to June. That was far better than the $3.2bn loss for the same period last year
Navmii, the free navigation and traffic app for drivers, has announced a new partnership with online presence specialist uberall.
The U.K. competition regulator on Friday said it is extending the deadline for its review of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision by six weeks.
Microsoft has released an update to their To-Do app for Android bringing mostly UI improvements. UI adjustments have been made to the list view, task view and various sections and links can now be displayed and made clickable in the email preview for flagged email tasks.
A new global alliance focused on cyber security launched today. The Operational Technology Cyber Security Alliance (OTCSA) has been established to help companies address the OT security challenges that continue to put operations, and consequently, business at risk.
The Microsoft Windows team has released a new video related to Windows 10 upgrade. Wondering when your free Windows 10 upgrade will arrive? Want to be sure that you've done everything right?
Samsung are collaborating with Microsoft on an end-to-end, cloud-based private 5G network solution. As a part of this collaboration, the two companies plan to advance the virtualization of 5G solutions, which will include the deployment of Samsung’s virtualized RAN, virtualized Core, and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) technologies on Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft today announced that it will change the reporting of its financial results to reflect the company's strategy and ambitions.
The BlackBerry 10 Operating system is difficult to learn, it's not intuitive, it has a steep learning curve! These are "facts" you will hear time and time again. Is BlackBerry 10 too difficult to learn? Step up, two year old Cherry to dispel the myths.
Nutanix and Microsoft Azure will create a hybrid solution that unifies management across on-premises and Azure environments using Nutanix Clusters. The new partnership will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless application, data, and license mobility as well as unified management across on-premises and Azure environments, using Nutanix Clusters on Azure.
BlackBerry have released an update to the BBM for Windows Phone Beta. The update brings BBM for Windows Phone Beta to version 2.1.0.7. While this latest beta doesn't bring any new features, it does bring a wealth of fixes.
Microsoft announced plans today to acquire ZeniMax Media, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, one of the largest privately held game developers and publishers in the world.
Dropbox for Windows Phone has received a pretty nice update, bringing a few nice new features and improvements, including a way to stream stored videos and a new "Recents" file tab.
Microsoft is to to acquire RiskIQ – a global threat intelligence and attack surface management company, with the aim of aiding the company offer a better service to their users in security terms.
During its annual Universe conference, GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features.
Microsoft and SAP SE on Monday announced integrated offerings to provide enterprise customers with a clear road map to confidently drive more business innovation in the cloud.
Microsoft has announced the launch of Skype Meetings, a new and free video and audio chat tool for small businesses in the United States that don't have an Office 365 subscription.
Microsoft has announced that the Surface Duo will be available to pre-order in the US from today, with availability from September 10.
Partnering with Microsoft, Good Technology brings secure mobility to tablets Good Technology today announced the industry’s first support for secure...
At the Hannover Messe event today, Miele & Cie. KG is announcing a proof-of-concept study based on Microsoft Azure Internet of Things (IoT) services that will help usher in the next generation of smart appliances and home cooking.
Microsoft has announced the availability of build 8.10.14176 of Windows Phone Preview for developers. It has started rolling out to developer preview...
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.
Microsoft has announced the release of Office UI Fabric, a new front-end framework for developers. Office UI Fabric is a responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework.
NTT and Microsoft today announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at delivering secure and reliable solutions that help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformations. The alliance will bring together NTT’s best-in-class ICT infrastructure, managed services and cybersecurity expertise, with Microsoft’s trusted cloud platform and AI technologies.
Microsoft today launched Windows 10 in over 190 markets and are now providing developers the tools they need to submit Universal Windows Platform apps and games to a single unified Windows Store.
Tundra Core Studios have today released Hub Browser, a native utility application for quick internet access on BlackBerry 10. The...
N!CK'S, Swedish-style better-for-you snacks and treats brand, has launched a limited-edition collection of light ice creams in collaboration with video gaming platform, Minecraft.
Wednesday at Computex 2016, Microsoft invited its Windows 10 hardware partners to create virtual reality (VR) devices, augmented reality devices and everything in between with Windows Holographic.
Justin Hutchings, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, talks about developing apps and devices that print using Windows 10 mobile. Printing will work on Universal apps, not on Silverlight apps.
NiCE IT today revealed the NiCE Management Pack with support for BES12. The solution, which is also compatible with BES5 and BES10
Microsoft has bought the local operations of Finnish software engineering and design services company Movial to add more Android expertise to its in-house engineering teams.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly taking shape. Billions of smart devices, from cars and trucks to containers and hospital beds, will create and share data. But who will be given permission to see and use this data?
Techteriors have announced they are offering hands-on demonstrations of the new SMART Room System for Microsoft Lync. The demo is...
HSBC Bank USA and Microsoft will provide grants and resources to support Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization.
Most affordable Lumia available in August 2014. Microsoft today announced the Lumia 530, the most affordable Lumia to date, delivering...
Anyone using a consumer Microsoft account can now go completely passwordless! You can now delete your password from your Microsoft account—or set up a new account with no password—
Microsoft's new 64-bit version of OneDrive is now available as a public preview, which means anyone can download and install it as long as you meet the necessary requirements. The new edition is aimed at OneDrive work, school and home accounts, and will supplement—not replace—the existing 32-bit version.
Microsoft has opened its European first flagship store, located on Oxford Circus, London, with a mixed-reality and digital enterprise retail focus.
Businesses such as Grant Thornton, CSX Transportation and Metro Bank choose industry- leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and...
Windows Mobile and BlackBerry are notorious for a lack of native apps and this is leading to third party app...
Microsoft on Thursday introducted the Lumia 430 Dual SIM, the latest addition to its affordable range of Lumia smartphones and its cheapest yet.
IBM and Microsoft announced today that they are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.
The Internet Marketing Association (IMA) is partnering with Microsoft to deliver its online Certified Internet Marketer (CIM) education program to Microsoft Dynamics business partners and employees.
Pre-order beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT May 21. Microsoft have introduced Surface Pro 3  the lightweight tablet that packs the...
Microsoft has launched Azure Communication Services, building on top of the Azure cloud and using the same security structure powering Microsoft Teams.
CNH Industrial and Microsoft today announced a new Digital Transformation project, aimed at empowering customers of CNH Industrial's global agricultural brands, Case IH and New Holland Agriculture, and its commercial vehicles brand IVECO
At Microsoft’s Surface event in New York today, the company announced the “Surface Duo”, a clamshell dual-screen phone with a full swivel hinge design.
See and do more of what you love on the go with an affordable large-screen Lumia smartphone Nokia introduces its...
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.
For businesses that require both private and public cloud capabilities, Concerto Cloud Services now offers the first hybrid cloud solution that is fully integrated with Microsoft Azure, powered by the recently released Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure for Microsoft Cloud Platform.
Microsoft Japan has announced that Resona Holdings Inc. has migrated approximately 30,000 client terminals to Windows 8 and Microsoft Office...
New services and technology partnerships help broadcasters and media companies move to the cloud. Wednesday, before the opening day of...
Microsoft is to discontinue all third-party Cortana skills on September 7, and in early 2021 the company will stop supporting the Cortana app for iOS and Android devices.
Microsoft has announced that the Lumia 650, its latest Windows 10 Mobile, will be available for purchase in select European markets from February 18 for £150, with matte black and matte white color variants on offer.
Project Astoria is a set of four new software development toolkits by Microsoft that will make it easy for developers to bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, iOS and Android to the Windows Store with minimal code modifications.
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 released another Outlook for Android update that brings the addition of Calendar attachments, allowing Outlook users to view them on their Android devices. You can view embedded images and open these attachments directly from the event details in the Outlook app.
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available July 29 in 190 countries. Familiar, yet better than ever, Windows 10 will deliver ongoing feature innovations and security updates.
Event brings US award-winning author Miki Agrawal to Ottawa to discuss entrepreneurship as a solution to youth unemployment Microsoft Canada...
Company combines new marketing, social listening and customer care capabilities with the power of productivity. Microsoft on Monday announced that...
At the Hannover Messe event, Fujitsu and Microsoft announced their collaboration to bring innovative operational excellence to manufacturing.
Microsoft will finally end support for Adobe Flash Player in all its web browsers by the end of 2020. In 2017, Microsoft had made a coordinated announcement with Apple, Adobe, Google, Facebook, and Mozilla regarding the discontinuity of Adobe Flash Player, a decision that was prompted because of more secure and high performing open techs like HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly gaining more popularity in comparison to the Adobe Flash Player.
Back in November of last year, , GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features. While the iOS app was made available practically immediately, there has been a long delay on the launch of the Android app.
Centrify announced today it has expanded support for Windows endpoints — including laptops, desktops and mobile devices ― and joined AppConfig.org to streamline app and device provisioning...
Microsoft has launched the Lumia 532 smartphone in India, priced at Rs 6,499 and powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 SoC and 4-inch display.
BlackBerry have released an upgrade to BBM for Windows Phone, bringing notification improvements, new features and bug fixes, taking the latest version to 1.2.0.12.
Microsoft has released their PhotoDNA technology, a free service that helps identify and remove online child sexual abuse photos.
EY has announced that it is working with Microsoft to help UK businesses improve the efficiency of their finance function through a new digital platform called EY Absolute™.
BlackBerry today announced that BBM(TM) will be made available to Windows Phone and Nokia X customers in the coming months....
Microsoft hires Michael Gough as corporate vice president of design, Applications and Services Group
Microsoft on Monday announced that Michael Gough has joined the company as corporate vice president of design for the Applications and Services Group (ASG).
Shifty Jelly, the company behind the popular Pocket Casts app for iOS and Android has announced the app is now available for Windows Phone.
Microsoft has just released fourth-quarter earnings results that sent shares up to new all-time highs. Revenue was $110.4 billion and increased 14%, Operating income was $35.1 billion and increased 21%, Net income was $16.6 billion GAAP and $30.3 billion non-GAAP, Diluted earnings per share was $2.13 GAAP and $3.88 non-GAAP and GAAP results include a $13.7 billion net charge related to TCJA.
Cortana is the hotly anticipated Digital Personal Assistant Microsoft is introducing with Windows Phone 8.1 as Windows Phone's answer to Siri and Google Now.
Microsoft has launched its first vertical cloud platform for healthcare providers, bundling its Azure cloud infrastructure service with elements of Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365 and Power Platform.
Microsoft fourth-quarter and full fiscal year earnings beat Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom lines.
Microsoft's Office Mobile app, which combines lightweight versions of the company's Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, has been available on Samsung smartphones for some time. At its Ignite conference on Monday, Microsoft announced that the app is now available to all Android and iOS users in public preview
Microsoft today announced it is adding new encryption support for its OneDrive cloud storage service and its Outlook.com email website, along with the...
The Met Office has signed a multimillion-pound agreement with Microsoft for a 10-year collaboration on a weather and climate forecasting supercomputer. This new supercomputer – expected to be the world’s most advanced dedicated to weather and climate
Zoom Video Communications has announced the addition of native interoperability with Microsoft Skype for Business to its enterprise video conferencing platform.
SAP and Microsoft today announced joint plans to deliver broad support for the SAP HANA platform deployed on Microsoft Azure, simplify work through new integrations between Microsoft Office 365 and cloud solutions from SAP.
Microsoft has hired ex Amazon cloud executive Charlie Bell as a corporate vice president. Bell, who left Amazon Web Services a fortnight ago, is now listed by Microsoft as a corporate vice president
BBM offers enhanced encryption for BBM Chats between employees at security conscious organisations. When someone starts a BBM Protected Chat with you, enter the secret passphrase they have shared with you in person, by email or SMS to get started.
BlackBerry today announced Microsoft customers now have access to BlackBerry's secure enterprise mobility solutions in the open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure.
