Speaking to shareholders at Microsoft's annual meeting today, chief executive officer Satya Nadella highlighted the company's strategic and cultural transformation that position it for new growth opportunities.
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Office 365, Surface Pro and Windows Azure are a winning combination for the largest county in North Carolina Mecklenburg County has...
Microsoft has previously tried to integrate Android applications into Windows 10 via a project called Astoria which never really came to fruition.
Microsoft is reportedly in talks with GitHub with a mind to potentially buy the popular source-code software development platform, which hosts developers' software blueprints and allows them to share and manage their projects online.
Microsoft has finally released its unified Office app after months of beta testing.
Microsoft and Samsung have expanded their global partnership to bring Microsoft mobile productivity services to more consumers and business customers.
Software company Bizmodeller have released rtRemote for iTunes, the only app to offer iTunes remote control functionality with Windows 8....
Microsoft has announced that they have agreed to acquire VoloMetrix, a pioneer and leader in organizational analytics.
Microsoft reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2017 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. The stock flattened out after the company offered guidance for the next quarter, before moving slightly higher again in premarket trading.
Microsoft Japan has announced that Resona Holdings Inc. has migrated approximately 30,000 client terminals to Windows 8 and Microsoft Office...
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.
Company will take restructuring charge of $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion. Microsoft today announced a restructuring plan to simplify its...
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.
The government of Equatorial Guinea has partnered with American company, Microsoft, to computerize the public administration of the country.
Google and Microsoft have signed an agreement with the UK Government and the creative industries in a long-running battle over links to pirated films and music online.
BlackBerry has integrated its critical event management platform, BlackBerry AtHoc, with the real-time collaboration platform, Microsoft Teams, ensuring that any organization managing critical events using Teams is able to contact, alert, and account for everyone within the organization directly through the Teams platform.
WhatsApp have released a desktop app so you have a new way to stay in touch anytime and anywhere - whether on your phone or computer at home or work.
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 is to give current OneDrive users a chance to keep their free 15GB of cloud file storage space, along with their extra free 15GB if they have the camera roll enabled on their smartphone.
Cirius has launched its dedicated secure messaging app for Office 365. The native app (available via the O365 marketplace) seamlessly...
Walmart and Microsoft are teaming up in a bid to acquire TikTok, in a deal that would give the retail company a key technology to reach younger shoppers and build out its third-party marketplace and advertising business.
Lenovo today announced its latest portfolio of laptops and desktops specifically designed for the small and medium business.
Microsoft has unveiled Azure Orbital, a service to help customers move data from satellites directly into the Azure cloud for processing and storage. The announcement marks the latest chapter in the competition between Microsoft and Amazon to connect satellite communications networks with cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft has announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), one of the largest enterprises anywhere, plans to deploy 4 million seats of Windows 10.
Microsoft has announced the availability of build 8.10.14176 of Windows Phone Preview for developers. It has started rolling out to developer preview...
Samsung has announced the addition of two premium laptops to the award winning ATIV Book 9 line: the ATIV Book 9 Pro and ATIV Book 9 Spin.
O2 UK have begun rolling out the Lumia Denim update for selected Lumia smartphones but for those receiving the update on the Nokia Lumia 930, it comes without the “Hey Cortana†voice activation.
It looks like the UK Government is not the only Government Agency to drag out upgrading from Windows XP. The...
Microsoft have signed a partnership with Epic Games that will make Fortnite playable through Xbox Cloud Gaming and free on all supported browser, enabled devices.
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.
Microsoft has officially announced that for Office 2016 for Windows will officially begin rolling out from September 22.
Microsoft is investing $1.1 billion into a variety of initiatives in Mexico designed to expand digital access in the country.
Microsoft today announced plans to deliver the Microsoft Cloud, including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two new datacenter regions, located in Magdeburg and Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Microsoft has announced it is partnering with Chinese Internet giant Baidu. The deal will help Microsoft reach its goal of putting Windows 10 on 1 billion devices worldwide.
In a new five-year deal, Microsoft are to supply Coca-Cola with business software, including Teams, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365.
Varonis Data Security Platform now supports Microsoft's U.S. Government Community Cloud (GCC/Impact Level 2) and U.S. Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High/Impact Level 4) environments.
Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $9.4 billion; Windows 10 active on over 200 million devices.
BlackBerry has released a beta version of BBM for BlackBerry 10, which is now available to beta testers in the...
Microsoft's Defender Research Team has found a piece of a particularly sophisticated Android ransomware with novel techniques and behaviour, exemplifying the rapid evolution of mobile threats that they have also observed on other platforms.
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 unveiled a refresh for its Surface Hub line, with new hardware likely to ship sometime in 2019. In a video hinting of new Windows interfaces, but somewhat light on detail, Microsoft showed off the newest edition of the whiteboard business collaboration tool.
Devices provide platform for more personalized in-flight customer service Delta Air Lines this fall will equip more than 20,000 flight...
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.
More than two million NHSmail mailboxes have been moved to Exchange Online, a part of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud, as part of the UK government’s programme to adopt a fully connected cloud-driven health service.
Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a set of software development kits (SDKs) to help developers bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10.
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.
AWS and Microsoft have announced a new deep learning library, called Gluon, that allows developers of all skill levels to prototype, build, train and deploy sophisticated machine learning models for the cloud, devices and mobile apps.
Microsoft is today launching the IT Pro and Developer Preview of Office 2016 for the Windows desktop.
Earlier today, we told you how Natwest and RBS mobile apps will use TouchID but Windows Phone users haven't been left out as RBS and NatWest rolled out updates for their official apps on Windows Phone, bringing both offerings up to version 3.4.
Just weeks after Citrix announced the availability of the Skype for Business RealTime Media Engine 2.0, IGEL has integrated the capabilities into its Linux thin clients
Perion Network and Microsoft have renewed a multi-year strategic partnership to drive search advertising business growth through Perion’s search technology division, CodeFuel.
Yesterday we told you about your chance to ask some of your tech providers how their strategies for the cloud and mobile...
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 the release of Office UI Fabric, a new front-end framework for developers. Office UI Fabric is a responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework.
The Apple TV app will be installed on Microsoft's Xbox S and Xbox X, when Microsoft’s next-generation consoles start shipping next week.
CSRA has announced that it has signed a three-year Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft to enable CSRA to utilize Microsoft's products, such as Microsoft Office365, for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
Microsoft unveils the future of Windows and gives first look at Windows 10, highlighting enterprise advancements and open collaboration. Microsoft...
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.
BlackBerry have released Beta 3 of BlackBerry Blend v1.2, which is now available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone for eligible beta testers.
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.
Zoom Video Communications has announced the addition of native interoperability with Microsoft Skype for Business to its enterprise video conferencing platform.
Microsoft announced today their broadest Surface lineup ever – with five new products coming this holiday and two new dual-screen devices, Surface Neo and Surface Duo, coming in Holiday 2020.
Microsoft launched the new Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7 and Surface Pro X, all available for pre-order today in select markets. Surface Laptop 3 delivers style and speed, now with a choice of a 13.5” or 15” display and new colours and finishes. Surface Pro remains the most versatile 2:1 device you can buy – whether you choose the new and improved Surface Pro 7 or the always-connected Surface Pro X.
RigNet has teamed up with CACI International (CACI) on CACI’s SteelBox Secure Voice and Text App for government users.
BlackBerry continue to improve BBM Meetings and have just released updates for Windows, Mac and BlackBerry 10.
Google Meet, Google's premium video-conferencing solution, now has a new noise cancellation feature that will let you filter out disruptive background noise on Android and iOS. The new feature is available to G Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers on web, Android and iOS.
Luczo was a member of the Compensation Committee and the CEO search committee that selected new CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft...
Microsoft has agreed to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, for around $68.7bn, including net cash, in the biggest deal ever for the company.
Hitachi and Microsoft have signed a “multi-year strategic alliance” to accelerate the digital transformation of the manufacturing and logistics industries across Southeast Asia, North America and Japan.
Microsoft has added several new features, such as picture-in-picture support, natural language search, caller ID for voicemail messages, and more to Microsoft Teams for Android.
Qualcomm and Microsoft today jointly announced that leading retailers from across the world will offer a range of new Microsoft Always Connected Windows 10 PCs powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Mobile PC Platform.
Microsoft has announced that its Power BI tool will be generally available to businesses on July 24. New updates will continue to be added to the current Power BI preview over the course of the month, ending with the general rollout of the software.
Microsoft has acquired London-based JClarity in an effort to bolster the performance of Java workloads on Azure. John Montgomery, Microsoft's corporate vice president of programme management for developer tools and services said that the deal would help the company to strengthen its Azure cloud computing platform by enhancing the performance of Java workloads.
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
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.
President Trump said he would ban TikTok from the US Friday, which put ongoing acquisition discussions between Microsoft and TikTok parent company ByteDance on hold.
Microsoft’s voice assistant – Cortana – is Microsoft’s take on Apple’s Siri and Google Now. While Microsoft’s digital assistant is...
Microsoft announced today the creation of a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure certification.
During its annual Universe conference, GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features.
The US Defense Department's inspector general has found that the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project cloud contract award process wasn't improperly influenced by President Trump.
A day after it was disclosed that Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group hacked iPhones of 36 Al Jazeera journalists, top tech company's Microsoft, Google, Cisco, VMware and the Internet Association filed an amicus brief in a legal case brought by Facebook-owned WhatsApp against the NSO Group.
Microsoft has announced that it is bringing new advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows developers.
Microsoft is ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA), the underlying component behind the Amazon Appstore (and other Android apps) in Windows 11.
Microsoft is inviting applications for its newest Council for Digital Good, an 18-month engagement program for U.S. teens focused on understanding, recognizing and reducing digital risks and promoting safer, healthier and more respectful online interactions.
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 on Wednesday announced new features in Windows 10 and unveiled a set of software development kits (SDKs) to help developers bring their code for the Web, .NET, Win32, Android and iOS to Windows 10.
Microsoft and Activision Blizzard have extended the deadline of their proposed merger until 18th October this year.
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.
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.
Microsoft has announced that will be launching Video Group Calling to Skype for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile in the coming weeks.
Microsoft fourth-quarter and full fiscal year earnings beat Wall Street estimates on the top and bottom lines.
Wejo Group is developing a breakthrough Wejo Neural Edge platform that will enable intelligent handling of data from vehicles at scale
BlackBerry today announced that BBM(TM) will be made available to Windows Phone and Nokia X customers in the coming months....
Today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Deutsche Telekom and Microsoft announced a broad, strategic partnership.
ZEISS Group and Microsoft have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate ZEISS’ transformation into a digital services provider that is embracing a cloud-first approach. By standardizing its equipment and processes on Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform, ZEISS will be able to provide its customers with enhanced digital experiences, address changing market needs more quickly and increase its productivity.
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™.
Businesses such as Grant Thornton, CSX Transportation and Metro Bank choose industry- leading Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, Office 365 and...
New innovations spanning Azure, Visual Studio and Office can help developers build cutting-edge apps, for every device, that help businesses and consumers achieve more.
Microsoft and Red Hat on Wednesday announced a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure.
With over a billion users, WhatsApp is the biggest messaging service on the planet and way back in 2016, the company announced that it would cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016.
Microsoft has made amendments to its proposed $69bn (£54bn) takeover of Activision Blizzard, in an attempt to win over the UK competition regulator that blocked the deal.
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,".
Microsoft will publish fiscal year 2015 second-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Monday, January 26, 2015 on the Microsoft Investor Relations website at http://www.microsoft.com/investor.
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.
Human Horizons and Microsoft are teaming up to jointly develop an on-board AI assistant, the HiPhiGo, for HiPhi vehicles. Human Horizons is an innovative mobility company with HiPhi, a subsidiary brand, providing premium smart all-electric vehicles.
Shape The Future program provides digital devices at a reduced cost to public school boards across Canada Microsoft Canada announced...
Microsoft’s new 4G, 2-in-1 laptop, the Surface Pro X, is now available on O2 as a UK network operator exclusive on custom plans from today. The Surface Pro X is a premium, lightweight and ultra-thin device that features a beautiful edge-to-edge 13” PixelSense OLED touchscreen display and Windows 10.
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?
Vodafone and Microsoft have signed a 10-year strategic partnership that leverages their respective strengths in offering scaled digital platforms to more than 300 million businesses, public sector organizations, and consumers across Europe and Africa.
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.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved Microsoft's acquisition of speech recognition company Nuance.
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.
If you’re a UK business considering Windows Phone, you may be interested in the fact that Nokia are offering 200 businesses...
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.
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.
HONOR is expanding its strategic partnership, with both companies working closely together to develop ground-breaking AI and end devices and create forward-looking technology strategies.
The Winter update of Resco's mobile solution for Microsoft Dynamics CRM is about to be released today, just in time before the holiday break.
Microsoft has been accused of unfairly overcharging customers of rival cloud companies in a UK lawsuit claiming damages of more than £1 billion.
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.
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.
