Microsoft (MSFT) News – Page 40 of 225

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer returns as a ‘mode’ inside Edge browser

Internet Explorer is making a comeback, more than three years after Microsoft retired the legacy browser. Microsoft is adding a… Read More

GitHub cozies up to Azure Active Directory, Visual Studio in series of new updates from Microsoft

Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository… Read More

Microsoft will open-source parts of Q#, the programming language behind its quantum computing strategy

Much has been made of Microsoft’s reinvention as an open-source company, and it will continue to live up to that… Read More

Microsoft fell behind in the digital assistant race, and now it is trying to change the conversation

Microsoft is embarking on what it calls the “next generation of intelligent assistant technologies” today, looking to move forward to… Read More

Microsoft and Red Hat unveil open-source project that automatically scales Kubernetes clusters in response to events

Microsoft continues to look for ways to help companies that are investing in application containers take advantage of the principles… Read More

Microsoft unveils new election security tools in continued battle against hackers

As the 2020 U.S. Presidential election approaches, Microsoft is getting ready to release several new tools to shore up security… Read More

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More

Microsoft Azure recovering from major networking-related outage that took out Office 365, Xbox Live, and other services

An outage that lasted more than an hour took out a host of Microsoft cloud services Thursday afternoon, as networking… Read More

‘Microsoft Solitaire,’ which debuted on Windows 3.0 in 1990, inducted into Video Game Hall of Fame

“Microsoft Solitaire,” a computer game played by more than 500 million people over the past 29 years, has been inducted… Read More

Microsoft unveils a new edge computing database and managed blockchain service ahead of Build

The main event doesn’t kick off until next Monday morning in downtown Seattle, but Microsoft plans to announce a new… Read More

Microsoft unveils $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition ‘mixed reality’ headset

Microsoft wants to bring more developers into its ecosystem to build “mixed reality” apps, and Microsoft today announced a Development… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: Celebrating $1 trillion market cap would be ‘the beginning of the end’

Under Satya Nadella, Microsoft has returned to the tech elite, punctuated by the company hitting a financial milestone of a… Read More

Microsoft equips veterans in rehab with accessible Xbox controllers

Microsoft is making gaming more accessible for patients at 22 Veterans Affairs rehab centers by supplying them with its Xbox… Read More

Microsoft and VMware unveil new cloud service that lets VMware customers run their apps on Azure

Years after VMware cut a ground-breaking cloud deal with Amazon Web Services that helped make the hybrid cloud a reality,… Read More

Tax hike on Amazon and Microsoft to fund higher ed in Washington state passes legislature

Update May 21: Gov. Jay Inslee signed the education bill into law. https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1130878840987721728 Washington state lawmakers passed a major tax… Read More

Slack calls out Microsoft as its ‘primary competitor’ in IPO filing in nod to rival’s collaboration tools

Now we know why Slack made such a ruckus when Microsoft entered its territory two years ago with the introduction… Read More

Amal and George Clooney partner with Microsoft on app to improve criminal justice oversight worldwide

Courtrooms around the world can be dangerous places for marginalized communities, journalists, and human rights advocates. Often justice systems are… Read More

Microsoft briefly becomes a $1 trillion company following strong earnings report

Update, April 30: Microsoft today became the second U.S. company in history after Apple to close with a market capitalization above… Read More

Microsoft’s hardware division continues momentum, posts revenue jump of 21% to $1.3B

Microsoft’s Surface division is on a roll. After posting a staggering 39 percent revenue growth over the holiday season and… Read More

Azure revenue remains a mystery, but cloud services continue to drive Microsoft forward

One of these days, Microsoft will decide that it needs to break out the amount of revenue it is recording… Read More

Microsoft beats Wall Street expectations, posting $30.6B in revenue, powered by cloud division

Microsoft rebounded from a rare revenue miss, sailing past Wall Street expectations for its third quarter, powered by the tech… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: What to watch as tech giant shares latest financial update

Microsoft is locked in a three-way race for the title of the nation’s most-valuable company with Amazon and Apple, with… Read More

Microsoft Paint will remain part of Windows 10, as 34-year-old favorite lives on

For years it’s felt like Microsoft Paint’s days were numbered, but the 34-year-old sentimental favorite keeps hanging on. The simple… Read More

How multiyear contracts with big business are changing the economics of the cloud

As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on… Read More

Microsoft to equip UAE company’s new HQ with ‘virtual AI persona’ in expansion of cloud strategy

Microsoft is outfitting a striking new office building just outside of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates with a suite… Read More

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Unicorns, IPOs and the hidden links among the new wave of tech giants

Seattle has a new unicorn, Outreach, the sales and marketing automation company that raised a $114 million funding round, pushing… Read More

Satya Nadella shares Microsoft’s inclusion strategy amid sexual harassment claims

Microsoft’s workplace culture is under a magnifying glass now that emails from dozens of women have surfaced with damning stories… Read More

Microsoft bets on a real-time operating system for IoT devices with Express Logic acquisition

The devices that make up the internet of things require a different approach to computing, which is one of the… Read More

Ahead of Zoom’s IPO, new report says Microsoft repeatedly tried to acquire video conferencing company

Video conferencing company Zoom is set to go public this week, but its future could have been a lot different,… Read More

Where Microsoft draws the line on selling facial recognition tech to government agencies

Microsoft is being selective about the government agencies that can buy the company’s facial recognition software. Speaking at a conference… Read More