Tag: microsoft

February 12, 2021

Microsoft already has two vertical ‘clouds for industry’ for healthcare and retail; expect more. “These are the two first ones that came out but there’ll be more to come,” Takuya Hirano, Microsoft vice president for global alliances and systems integrators […]

February 1, 2021

Azure Quantum, the public cloud ecosystem dedicated to quantum applications developed by Microsoft, is now available for public preview. The Redmond giant has urged developers and researchers in the field to start using the platform’s cloud services to explore, build […]

December 22, 2020

Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other tech giants asked for permission to join Facebook Inc.’s legal fight against an Israeli company that the social media company accuses of installing malware on the phones of unsuspecting users. The companies asked the […]

December 7, 2020

Microsoft is taking the wraps off Azure Government Top Secret, a new cloud offering for those who need to manage top-secret classified data. The new offering joins the existing family of Azure clouds available to U.S. government users, including Azure […]

December 1, 2020

Vietnamese government-backed hackers have been recently spotted deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside their regular cyber-espionage toolkits, Microsoft said on Monday. The report highlights a growing trend in the cyber-security industry where an increasing number of state-backed hacking groups are also dipping […]

November 12, 2020

Microsoft is urging users to abandon telephone-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) solutions like one-time codes sent via SMS and voice calls and instead replace them with newer MFA technologies, like app-based authenticators and security keys. The warning comes from Alex Weinert, […]

November 6, 2020

The growth of Alibaba’s cloud business outpaced Amazon and Microsoft in the quarter ending in September, and the Chinese tech giant reiterated its commitment to making the unit profitable by next March. Alibaba reported cloud computing brought in revenue of […]

October 28, 2020

Microsoft reported strong sales growth during its most recent quarter, but a weaker-than-expected guidance for the current quarter muted investor enthusiasm. The business technology giant said on Tuesday that its sales grew 12% year-over-year to $37.2 billion in the quarter […]

October 26, 2020

Facebook, like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, is betting that the nascent business of cloud gaming will become a huge hit. The social networking giant on Monday premiered a handful of video games that are streamed to people’s smartphones and personal […]

October 20, 2020

The Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that Google has been abusing its online dominance in online search to stifle competition and harm consumers, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. The litigation […]

September 21, 2020

The Sparti will essentially be a smaller version of the current Surface Laptop 3 series, but priced between the current Surface Go 2 and Surface Pro 7 – reports claim this figure could be anywhere between $500 and $600. Despite […]

September 15, 2020

The Western Australian government has awarded Microsoft with a whole-of-government contract to provide all of the state’s agencies with access to its cloud services. As part of the contract, WA’s state agencies will gain rights to use Azure, Teams, Office […]

September 14, 2020

The TikTok conundrum may be about to be solved—or not. Here’s what can be said for certain at the time of writing. According to multiple outlets, Oracle is the “winning bidder” for a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance, regarding the […]

September 9, 2020

ByteDance is speaking with the U.S. government about possible solutions that may allow it to retain some ownership of the U.S. operations of TikTok, while satisfying regulators in both China and the U.S. Those possibilities include handing over operational control […]

August 18, 2020

Oracle Corp. is weighing a potential bid for part of TikTok’s business, seeking to rival Microsoft Corp. in the race to acquire the viral video streaming app, according to people familiar with the matter. The company controlled by billionaire Larry […]

August 11, 2020

America’s largest tech firms are taking on U.S. President Donald Trump. On Monday, a group of companies that included Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Microsoft, and Netflix filed an amicus brief in a California court arguing against the U.S.’s temporary ban […]

July 24, 2020

In 2019, Microsoft Office became cybercriminals’ preferred platform when carrying out attacks, and the number of incidents keeps increasing, according to Kaspersky Lab researchers. Boris Larin, Vlad Stolyarov and Alexander Liskin showed at the company’s Security Analyst Summit that the […]

July 23, 2020

Leaked 3DMark benchmark data (spotted by WindowsLatest) shows a new Microsoft device using an AMD Ryzen 7 4800U processor. While there’s no specific mention of a Surface Laptop 4, it’s fairly safe to assume this is the laptop in question […]

June 12, 2020

Microsoft is joining Amazon and IBM when it comes to halting the sale of facial recognition technology to police departments. In a statement released Thursday by Microsoft President Brad Smith, he said the ban would stick until federal laws regulating […]

April 28, 2020

Microsoft and Google have announced updates to their respective virtual-machine (VM) instances for highly confidential information to be processed in Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine. Microsoft has moved its Azure DCsv2-Series VMs to general availability. The VMs feature hardware-based […]