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Microsoft is expected to launch its Windows cloud OS at its Microsoft EDU event today, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, besides launching a new laptop to compete with Apple’s MacBook and Google’s Chromebook laptops. The highly-expected launch of Windows 10 Cloud operating system, aimed at low-end education segment will be the rival of Chromebook from Google. The Microsoft EDU event will ...

More than a year after allowing people to pay money into their accounts using bitcoins, Microsoft has quetly removed the Bitcoin, the virtual currency, top up option saying it is no longer redeemable. Microsoft note said:“You can no longer redeem bitcoin into your Microsoft account. Existing balances in your account will still be available for purchases from Microsoft Store, but ...

Hyderabad on Saturday launched the Rs.8-crore STPI building called Innovation in Multimedia, Animation, Gaming & Entertainment (IMAGE) that can house 232 startups in its 30,000 square feet area to serve as incubation centre for future potential software area. Built by the Telangana government the IMAGE building awaits one the city’s highly successful IT person, Satya Nadealla, CEO of Microsoft, to ...

As Microsoft celebrates 25 years of success in India with its CEO flying down to give keynote address today in Mumbai, the event will see top speakers from the Indian IT industry including managed security service provider (MSSP) Paladion’s CEO Rajat Mohanty, among others. The ‘Microsoft Future Unleashed’ will focus on ‘Risk management in Omni Channel Era’. “It is anticipated ...

Close on the heels of the visit of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, India will have one of its own jewels in IT world – Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO – visiting Mumbai to unleash ‘Microsoft’s Future’. Microsoft has committed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the Silicon Valley that it would work towards making Internet accessible to 5 lakh villages ...

Microsoft and Google have agreed to dismiss their entire pending patent lawsuit against each other. There were about 20 different lawsuits in Germany and the United States involving issues as varied as mobile phones, wireless networking, video decoding and other technologies, reported by The New York Times Also, cases included Motorola Mobility (the smartphone maker that Google sold last year ...

Google has seen a lot of changes over the past 17 years, from the range of products to the evolution of their look and feel. However, this doodle is not a special one-day change. This brand new logo is a permanent change. These changes were made because Google said in a blog-post that, people are interacting with Google product across ...

Indian-born Sundar Pichai named as new CEO of Google. The search giant as part of a surprise corporate overhaul saw the company forming a new parent company called Alphabet Inc. A native of Chennai, Pichai, 43, was born and schooled in Chennai. He also captained his school’s cricket team. Later he joined Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur). ...

Microsoft said it would sack 7,800 staff and write off a $7.6 billion in restructuring its flagging mobile business. Last year, it had cut 18,000 jobs. Out of $7.6 billion on mobile business restructuring, the company has paid $7.3 billion to acquire Nokia’s phone business in April 2014. Being an ancient behemoth, it has failed to gain tractions still in ...

Microsoft Windows 10, to be released next month may do away with passwords, a chronic problem for many people despite its security angle. Instead the Windows 10 may feature other modes of identity, including the FIDO or fast Identity Online standards for users to sing in. While biometric sign in is not ruled out, the Fido may create a “universal ...