Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 32 of 225

Microsoft sleighs ’em again in holiday ad as girl uses translation technology to speak to reindeer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnmy7IPE08I&feature=emb_logo It’s one thing to leave a note for Santa and hope for some sort of reply. It’s quite another… Read More

Microsoft and AT&T reveal the 1st major initiative to come out of their big cloud-5G partnership

Microsoft and AT&T today unveiled the first big plan as part of their multi-year cloud alliance: Combining AT&T’s burgeoning 5G… Read More

Microsoft cleared to sell ‘mass market’ software to Huawei following reprieve from Trump admin

Microsoft said it has been granted a license to sell software to Huawei, the latest development in the complicated relationship… Read More

Microsoft delays release of wireless Surface Earbuds until 2020 to ‘get all the details right’

Microsoft’s place in the battle of wireless earbud makers is going to be delayed a bit as the tech giant’s… Read More

Update: Microsoft Teams and other Office 365 services back online after untimely outage

Update: Microsoft said it resolved the issue as of 10:30 p.m. Pacific Tuesday. Microsoft is citing a “recent networking update”… Read More

Salesforce and Amazon double down on cloud partnership following surprising Microsoft alliance

Amazon and Salesforce today strengthened their relationship with a new cloud partnership focused on technology for customer service centers. The… Read More

Microsoft Teams hits 20M daily users, up 50% in 4 months — here’s how that compares to rival Slack

Microsoft Teams now has more than 20 million daily active users, a 50 percent spike in four months that puts… Read More

Microsoft taps Eric Holder to audit Israeli partner in demonstration of tech’s struggle to self-regulate

Microsoft’s decision to retain former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate how one of its partner companies uses facial… Read More

Logitech teams up with Microsoft for new low-cost Xbox Adaptive Controller accessory kit

Electronics accessory manufacturer Logitech today unveiled a new low-cost button kit for Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller that aims to help… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Amazon protests JEDI deal; Cortana reads email; Cosmic Crisp first taste

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Amazon is formally protesting a decision by the U.S. Department of Defense to award… Read More

Microsoft will bring Project xCloud game streaming service to Windows 10 PCs

Microsoft said it will bring its new cloud-based game streaming service to Windows 10 PCs, as part of a flurry… Read More

Together again? Microsoft and Salesforce deepen cloud partnership despite years of rivalry and rifts

Microsoft and Salesforce are strengthening their relationship, putting aside a complicated history for a new cloud partnership. Salesforce will move… Read More

Microsoft AI chief Harry Shum to depart in February after 23 years at the tech giant

Microsoft AI chief Harry Shum is leaving after 23 years at the Redmond, Wash. tech giant in a big departure… Read More

Minecraft Earth goes national: Microsoft’s augmented reality game now live across U.S.

Minecraft Earth, Microsoft’s take on the smartphone-enabled augmented reality gaming craze, made its U.S. debut after months of testing. Microsoft… Read More

Supreme Court hears Microsoft case challenging Trump’s decision to terminate DACA

Nineteen Microsoft employees traveled to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday for a hearing in a critical immigration case that… Read More

Microsoft backs California data privacy law taking effect next year

Microsoft plans to make changes required by California’s new data privacy law available to all its U.S. customers, the company… Read More

Review: Microsoft Cortana reading email aloud on an iPhone is surprisingly useful, to a point

Grab your headphones, press play, and groove to the sound of your email inbox. It might sound a little weird,… Read More

Microsoft goes to bat for Dreamer employees as Supreme Court prepares to hear DACA case

There’s the service and security engineer — brought to the U.S. from Mexico when she was four years old —… Read More

Looming cuts to transit cast doubt on Microsoft’s vision for Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail

Microsoft’s aspiration to build one of America’s first high-speed rail lines in the Pacific Northwest hit a speed bump this… Read More

Facebook reportedly ‘heavily recruited’ Microsoft cloud chief Scott Guthrie — to no avail

Facebook really wanted to hire Scott Guthrie. That’s one revelation from the internal Facebook documents leaked by NBC this week. Mashable… Read More

Satya Nadella and other Sounders owners on how they’ve applied lessons from sports to business

The lessons from sports that can be applied to business and life are endless. Teamwork, grit, determination, leadership, planning, overcoming… Read More

Watch: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Elizabeth Warren, billionaires, antitrust and space exploration

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sat down for a candid and wide-ranging fireside chat Wednesday as part of the New York… Read More

How Nokia’s former CEO landed at a Seattle startup, rejoining Microsoft vet who led Nokia integration

Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business didn’t turn out like either company had hoped, but five years later, some of… Read More

Planting the seeds of digital agriculture: Startup bets the farm on Microsoft’s new ag tech platform

Microsoft’s cloud-based platform for data-driven farming, Azure FarmBeats, had its official coming-out party this week at the company’s annual Ignite… Read More

How Microsoft is approaching the Seattle region’s affordable housing crisis

When several Seattle business leaders decided to take on the region’s confounding housing crisis, they did their due diligence. Microsoft… Read More

Surface Pro X reviews: An intriguing, yet flawed, step in Microsoft’s battle with Apple’s iPad

Microsoft’s hardware division aims to shake up the notion of the two-in-one device with the Surface Pro X. Instead of… Read More

Microsoft and Nokia reunite for new alliance, 5 years after failed $7B smartphone megadeal

It’s been more than five years since Microsoft’s $7 billion ill-fated acquisition of Nokia’s smartphone business, and now the companies… Read More

Microsoft experimented with a 4-day work week in Japan — and saw a big jump in productivity

We all know those people who wear a 60-hour work week like it’s some sort of productivity badge of honor.… Read More

Future of storage? How Microsoft put the original ‘Superman’ movie on a piece of quartz glass

Is the future of digital storage … glass? Microsoft showed off the latest proof of concept for “Project Silica” at… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Office mobile app that brings together Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Microsoft is bringing some of its most popular tools under one umbrella with a new Office mobile app. Microsoft is… Read More