Tag: Microsoft

San Francisco: Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has said that his “greatest mistake ever” was the company losing on the Android opportunity which has cost Microsoft nearly $400 billion and made Google the real winner. In an interview during an event hosted by venture capital firm Village Global, Gates revealed that the mistake was […]

Bhubaneswar: The multinational technology company, Microsoft commenced its campus recruitment of B.Tech students of 2020 batch in India from the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER) here on Monday As per the release of the Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA), Deemed to be University, Microsoft recruited eight B.Tech students of 2020 batch. Students belonging to […]

San Francisco: Microsoft is planning to make computers running Windows 10 operating system password-less and replace it with Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN code. While the company has been working on removing passwords from Windows 10 and its Microsoft Accounts for a several months now, the next major update to Windows 10 […]

San Francisco: Software giant Microsoft is killing all of its iconic Internet games including Hearts, Spades, Checkers, Backgammon, MSN Go and Reversi from Windows version XP, ME and 7. The company would be focusing on developing and launching its xCloud Xbox streaming service that would be debuting in October, CNET reported on Friday. “While Microsoft […]

San Francisco: To the surprise of millions of LinkedIn users, the high-profile job of Google CEO Sundar Pichai was up for grabs on Microsoft-owned professional networking platform and some wannabes even applied to become what would be a dream job on Earth. Later, LinkedIn accepted it was actually a security bug that let users post […]

New Delhi: India should focus on becoming a major software producer, said Ajay Prakash Sawhney, Secretary for the Ministry of Electronics and IT, here on Tuesday. “It’s time for us to move towards software products. We have been consumers of software, but not producers of software. It’s time for India to move towards being a […]

Bengaluru: Global software majors Infosys and Microsoft on Wednesday tied up to jointly offer new solutions to clients worldwide for accelerating their digital transformation. “We have entered into a collaboration with Microsoft and JCI (Johnson Controls International) to deliver smart buildings and space solutions for accelerating the convergence of physical and digital infrastructure,” said the […]

San Francisco: The popularity of video game Minecraft has been growing, with Microsoft announcing that over 112 million people play it a month. It’s 20 million increase over the figures reported in October 2018. Minecraft was acquired by tech giant Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion. Given that the game is available on almost all […]

San Francisco: Roberto D’Angelo, a Microsoft employee, and his colleagues have developed an application that alerts parents if their kids are having a seizure. Their project, MirrorHR — Epilepsy Research Kit for Kids, was named for this year’s grand prize at the company’s annual global hackathon, produced by The Garage. The Garage is a Microsoft […]

Gandhinagar: Microsoft on Tuesday launched a new initiative called “Highway to a Hundred Unicorns” to mentor and support startups in tier 2 cities in India. Organised in collaboration with the Industries Commissionerate and Gujarat’s Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), more than 250 startups attended the first such event here. Microsoft said it will engage with innovators and […]

Mumbai: Over-the-top (OTT) video platform Eros Now on Thursday joined hands with Microsoft to build a next-generation online video platform on the latter’s cloud computing service “Azure”. “The online video market has brought a paradigm shift in the way technology is used and will be used to enhance the customer journey and user experience. We […]

San Francisco: US tech multinational Amazon announced that it will lead an initiative to make different voice assistants like Alexa and Cortana compatible among themselves and with all the different mobile devices on the market, a move for which the firm has obtained the support of more than 30 companies. A day before the company […]

San Francisco: Microsoft has blocked 38 new types of file extensions on its Outlook for the web email platform in a bid to protect email users from what it deems ‘at-risk’ file attachments that were usually sent with malicious scripts or executables. “The list, which previously included 104 file extensions, will be expanded ‘soon’ with […]

New York: Microsoft’s October 2019 Event saw the company unveiling a large range of new Surface devices. Some other big announcements include Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, Surface Earbuds, Surface Neo, Surface Pro X and Surface Duo. The 13-inch Surface Laptop 3 comes with the latest 10th-generation quad-core processors from Intel, while the 15-inch […]

San Francisco: Microsoft has said that a group of hackers that appeared to be linked to Iran’s government have targeted the 2020 US presidential election. “Today we’re sharing that we’ve recently seen significant cyber activity by a threat group we call Phosphorus, which we believe originates from Iran and is linked to the Iranian government,” […]