Tag: Microsoft

Microsoft, NTT team up to offer hybrid cloud solution in Hong Kong

A public cloud is based on the standard cloud computing model, where a service provider such as Microsoft or Dropbox makes storage available to … RSS-1

Microsoft Aims to Launch Azure Stack by Mid-2017

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Edge Browser Power Results, Azure Data Protection: Microsoft Roundup

This week Microsoft touted the benefits of its Edge browser and added a mobile wallet feature to its Windows 10 Mobile platform. The company promised to protect data throughout its… Read more »

Does Microsoft Really Give a Damn About Yammer?

Microsoft has yet to substantially improve the user interface or add significant features and functionalities to the enterprise collaboration platform it bought for $ 1.2 billion four years ago. Yammer… Read more »

Microsoft launches VC to drive inorganic growth

Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Ventures, a new capitalist venture arm to engage start-ups and entrepreneurs in areas which the business does not currently operate. Speaking on the… Read more »

Microsoft, Facebook to Lay Giant Undersea Internet Cable to Europe

Facebook and Microsoft both have massive cloud computing operations, with the former catering to a massive user base and the latter hosting a suite … Cloud Computing

Pivotal raises $253M led by Ford, Microsoft

Pivotal, the platform as a service company spun out from VMware and EMC three years ago, today announced plans to close a series C financing round worth $ 253 million… Read more »

Pivotal raises $253M led by Ford, Microsoft

Pivotal, the platform as a service company spun out from VMware and EMC three years ago, today announced plans to close a series C financing round worth $ 253 million… Read more »

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 Is Now Available

Microsoft is making SharePoint Server 2016 generally available, and sharing updates for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.InformationWeek: Cloud Link to this post! RSS-5

Microsoft sues U.S. to let customers know about secret data requests

SAN FRANCISCO — In the latest clash over privacy rights in the digital age, Microsoft is suing the U.S. government over a federal law that allows authorities to examine customer… Read more »

Microsoft Office Shines in the Cloud, Azure Will Be Profitable, Says Bernstein

Moerdler also updates his thinking on “Azure,” the cloud computing service that is becoming bigger and bigger as a part of Microsoft. Right now, it’s … RSS-3

ZONE Telecom Partners AliCloud and Microsoft to Offer SMEs Affordable Cloud Solutions

According to research firm IDC, the cloud computing market in Singapore is forecast to grow to about US$ 1 billion (S$ 1.4 billion) by 2017. Singapore … RSS-1

At Build, Microsoft tried a different way to mobile developers’ hearts

At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft showed how it plans to stay relevant in the mobile computing market without a popular mobile OS. Microsoft’s plan isn’t so much… Read more »

Microsoft looking to provide mapping data to HERE

The nature of the partnership is reported to have its roots in cloud computing, which Microsoft and Amazon would theoretically supply to HERE if their … RSS-1

Microsoft Build 2016 – What to expect and what you need to know

Day 2 also has a keynote that is more focused on Azure and cloud computing. It tends to be less exciting for non-developers, but the news revealed is … RSS-4

The Doyle Report: Top of Mind with Microsoft Channel Chief Phil Sorgen

First there was the urgent need to develop a comprehensive response to the growing existential threat that cloud computing represented. (At the time … RSS-1 RSS-3

8 no-bull reasons why SQL Server on Linux is huge for Microsoft

Pigs sure did sprout wings yesterday when Microsoft announced, without warning or preface, that it was doing the previously unthinkable: producing a version of SQL Server for Linux. This shakeup has… Read more »

Microsoft Gets CX Wrong in Office 2016 Setup

“Your call is important to us” has been touted as a customer experience innovation in itself : a unique and clever way to make customers feel they’re valued. Continue reading…… Read more »

Microsoft Targets The Luxury Smartphone Market With Premium Priced Lumia

Microsoft is set to engage with the smartphone marketplace with two new Windows-powered Lumia devices. The upcoming handsets should be totemic devices for Redmond and have been priced accordingly. The… Read more »

Microsoft pact makes Baidu the Edge browser’s default search engine in China

Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Baidu, the hugely popular Chinese search engine. In China, Baidu.com will be the default home page and search engine for the new Microsoft… Read more »

Microsoft cuts deals in China with government organizations and companies

Microsoft announced three new tie-ups in China on the same day that the country’s President Xi Jinping and a delegation visited its campus at Redmond, Washington. The seven deals with… Read more »