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Microsoft and Invenergy sign solar agreement

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.

US Microsoft

·6 years ago

TomTom expands partnership with Microsoft to power Microsoft Cloud offerings

TomTom and Microsoft are expanding their partnership, bringing TomTom’s maps and traffic data into a multitude of mapping scenarios across Microsoft’s cloud services. With this broadened integration, TomTom will be a leading location data provider for Microsoft Azure and Bing Maps. TomTom is also expanding its relationship with Microsoft, selecting Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud provider.

Connected Microsoft

·6 years ago

Microsoft to pull plug on Windows 10 Mobile December 10, 2019

Microsoft has announced December 10^th, 2019 as the final end date of Windows Mobile support. The last major release of Windows 10 Mobile occurred way back on October 2017, and Microsoft has only provided security updates since that time.

Devices and OS Microsoft

·6 years ago

Microsoft to acquire AI bot startup XOXCO

Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire XOXCO, a software developer focusing on conversational AI and bot development.

Connected Microsoft

·7 years ago

Node4 launches ‘N4Stack’ services for Microsoft Azure

Node4 has launched N4Stack, a range of services enabling Microsoft Azure users to move to a highly automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) model across data operations, DevOps, security and SysOps functions.

Connected Microsoft

·7 years ago

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter announce the Data Transfer Project

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.

Google Microsoft

·7 years ago

Microsoft FY18 Q4 results sends shares up to new all-time high

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.

Financial Microsoft

·7 years ago

Using Enterprise BRIDGE to Securely Extend Your Microsoft Environment

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.

BlackBerry Microsoft

·7 years ago

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion

Microsoft today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use of GitHub, and bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences.

Microsoft

·7 years ago

Microsoft reportedly in talks to acquire Github

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

·7 years ago

Microsoft announces Surface Hub 2

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 and OS Microsoft

·7 years ago

US Justice Department asks Supreme Court to dismiss Microsoft email case

Due to the fact that US Congress has now made clear that a U.S. search warrant covers emails stored overseas, the US Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to moot a case involving a data demand issued to Microsoft for a drug-trafficking suspect’s emails held in Ireland.

US Microsoft

·7 years ago

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