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.
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Microsoft Teams is currently down as the company struggles to handle the surge in use as many countries in Europe begin working from home.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has stepped down from the company's board of directors to devote more time to his philanthropic projects. Gates will continue to serve as technology adviser to CEO Satya Nadella and others.
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.
The Pentagon is reconsidering its awarding of a major cloud computing contract to Microsoft after rival Amazon protested what it called a flawed bidding process.
Microsoft is making its collaboration platform Teams available to all for free for six months to help people connect with their companies, schools, and colleges using the Internet.
Microsoft is investing $1.1 billion into a variety of initiatives in Mexico designed to expand digital access in the country.
Microsoft has finally released its unified Office app after months of beta testing.
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.
Most professionals no longer see LinkedIn as a platform for valuable business networking but for marketing, sales and recruitment, according to new research.
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.
Ericsson and Microsoft are teaming up to bring their connected vehicle expertise together. Ericsson is building its Connected Vehicle Cloud on top of the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform that is running on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
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’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.
Microsoft has been granted a license from the U.S. government to export software to Huawei. The Donald Trump Administration on Wednesday gave Huawei its second 90 day reprieve this week, allowing some suppliers to restart sales to Huawei after it was placed on a trade blacklist over national security concerns six months ago.
During its annual Universe conference, GitHub announced new native mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside several new features.
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
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.
Microsoft has acquired Mover, a provider of cloud file migration, including admin-led and self-service offerings. As customer demand to move content to the cloud continues to grow, Mover will help make it easier than ever for customers to migrate files to Microsoft 365.
Not only did Microsoft unveil the Surface Duo dual-screen Android phone and Windows 10X software for dual-screen devices today, the company is adding to its Surface lineup of PCs a device with dual 9-inch displays called the Surface Neo.
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.
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.
Novartis has founded the Novartis AI innovation lab and by selected Microsoft as its strategic AI and data-science partner for this effort.
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.
Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $33.7 billion, net income of $13.2 billion, and earnings per share of $1.71 (compared to revenue of $30.1 billion, net income of $8.9 billion, and earnings per share of $1.14 in Q4 2018). All three of the company’s operating groups saw year-over-year growth.
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 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 opened its European first flagship store, located on Oxford Circus, London, with a mixed-reality and digital enterprise retail focus.
Microsoft and ServiceNow today announced a broader strategic partnership intended to significantly enhance the integration and optimisation of the companies’ products, platform and cloud capabilities.
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.
Puppets is a new feature now available on SwiftKey Beta for Android. You can choose one of five different animals (Panda, Cat, Dog, Panda, Owl) with which to record a 30-second animated message, and your facial movements will be transposed onto the creatures by way of a tracking technology.
BlackBerry has announced that they will be providing technology with other tech companies to help Indigenous communities across Canada.
Microsoft and Oracle have announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud.
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi has announced the production release of the Alliance Intelligent Cloud, a new platform that is enabling Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi Motors to deliver connected services in vehicles sold in nearly all 200 markets served by the Alliance member companies.
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.
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.
Microsoft has announced December 10th, 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.
Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire XOXCO, a software developer focusing on conversational AI and bot development.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Microft has opened a $20 million venue in London to help the UK remain the home of technology innovation in Europe. The Reactor, in Shoreditch, will be used to “nurture and develop start-up talent in the UK” by giving new businesses access to Microsoft partners, customers and products, UK Chief Executive Cindy Rose said.
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.
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
Microsoft will publish fiscal year 2018 second-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, on the Microsoft Investor Relations website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/.
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 on Wednesday announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.42 per share. The dividend is payable March 8, 2018, to shareholders of record on February 15, 2018.
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.
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.
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.
Cloud VoIP and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) provider OnSIP announced today the launch of its first desktop application for Mac and Windows.
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.
If you drive a personal car for work purposes such as customer sales visits, partner meetings or trade conferences, you know that tracking and reporting your miles for tax deduction or expense reimbursement can be a hassle.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced a new patent licensing agreement with Toyota that includes broad coverage for connected car technologies. Today's agreement builds on Toyota and Microsoft's strong partnership.
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 on Tuesday announced the appointment of Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, to its board of directors effective immediately. Microsoft also announced its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.39 per share. The dividend is payable June 8, 2017.
Cavium announced today that they are teaming up with Microsoft on evaluating and enabling a variety of cloud workloads running on Cavium's flagship ThunderX2 ARMv8-A Data Center processor for the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
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...
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.
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.
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's President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith has today announced that the Microsoft-LinkedIn deal has been cleared by the European Commission.
Microsoft has renewed its Affordable Access Initiative grant fund for a second year. The fund assists companies working to bring internet access and new technologies, services and models to underserved markets.
Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $13.0 billion. Microsoft today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30, 2016
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
Microsoft has announced the Microsoft Professional Degree (MPD) program, the first program of its kind to offer employer-endorsed, university-caliber curriculum for professionals at any stage of their career.
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 Windows 10 Anniversary Update is coming to all Windows 10 devices  for free on August 2. Windows 10 continues to be the fastest-growing version of Windows ever.
Microsoft and LinkedIn have announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn’s net cash.
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.
Microsoft and Xiaomi have expanded their global partnership to provide innovative user experiences on mobile devices. As part of the agreement, Xiaomi will ship Microsoft Office and Skype on Xiaomi Android smartphones and tablets.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to streamline the company's smartphone hardware business, which will impact up to 1,850 jobs.
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.
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.
WhatsApp has rolled out full end-to-end encryption for all modes of communication, so every call you make, every message, photo, video, file, and voice message you send, is end-to-end encrypted by default, including group chats.
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.
Zoom Video Communications has announced the addition of native interoperability with Microsoft Skype for Business to its enterprise video conferencing platform.
Cloud Cruiser has announced the availability of Cloud Cruiser for Azure Public Cloud in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.
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
WhatsApp has announced that it is to cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016, ending support for BlackBerry legacy OS, BlackBerry 10, Nokia S40, and Nokia Symbian S60 by the end 2016.
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.
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 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.
Commercial cloud annualized revenue run rate exceeds $9.4 billion; Windows 10 active on over 200 million devices.
Microsoft has announced that will be launching Video Group Calling to Skype for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile in the coming weeks.
Microsoft has anounced today that Matter Center, an Office 365 add-in and SharePoint-based document collaboration solution for legal professionals, is now available in GitHub.
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.
Microsoft announced today the creation of a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure certification.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Amrote Abdella has been announced as the new regional director for Microsoft's 4Afrika Initiative, effective October 2015.
BlackBerry continue to improve BBM Meetings and have just released updates for Windows, Mac and BlackBerry 10.
Microsoft today announced that it will change the reporting of its financial results to reflect the company's strategy and ambitions.
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.
AT&T will begin selling the Microsoft Surface 3 with Windows 8.1 Pro to business customers in the coming weeks.
Microsoft has today sent out press invites for an event in New York on October 6. As expected, Microsoft is going to reveal new first party Windows 10 devices at this event.
NiCE IT today revealed the NiCE Management Pack with support for BES12. The solution, which is also compatible with BES5 and BES10
Microsoft has officially announced that for Office 2016 for Windows will officially begin rolling out from September 22.
Slack have announced that they have open up their Windows Phone Beta to all Windows Phone users. Being a beta, the app has "some rough edges and quirky traits.
Microsoft has announced that it has acquired cloud cybersecurity firm Adallom. The Israel based firm helps customers protect their critical assets across cloud applications.
Microsoft has announced that they have agreed to acquire VoloMetrix, a pioneer and leader in organizational analytics.
Lenovo today announced its latest portfolio of laptops and desktops specifically designed for the small and medium business.
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.
Microsoft has announced that it is bringing new advertising and campaign tracking capabilities for Windows developers.
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 has released an early look at the Windows Bridge for iOS (previously known as ‘Project Islandwood’). While the final release will happen later this fall.
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.
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?
Earlier today, we reported how developers can now start submitting their apps to the new Windows Store. However, if you’re a Windows 10 user and would like to create an app for your own use, you can create an app for Windows 10 pretty easily with the App Studio.
