Microsoft
- Business
Microsoft, Qcells colab to curb carbon emissions, power clean energy economy
San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with global solar leader Qcells to curb carbon emissions and power the clean energy economy. The “strategic alliance” aims to enable…
- Business
Microsoft Teams, Outlook suffer major outage in India
New Delhi: Microsoft’s Teams, Outlook and some other services went down in some parts of India on Wednesday as users reported facing several issues. As of now, 63 per cent of users…
- Technology
Microsoft logs slowest quarter growth in 6 years, PC sales nosedive
New Delhi: Microsoft has recorded its slowest sales growth in more than six years in its December quarter of 2022, as it took a $1.2 billion hit after laying off 10,000 people…
- Jobs
Get prepared for deeper layoffs in 2023, predict business economists
San Francisco: Deeper layoffs are coming in 2023 as most business economists have predicted that their companies will cut payrolls in the coming months, media reports said. According to a report in…
- Technology
Microsoft may bring split-screen feature to Edge
San Francisco: Microsoft is reportedly testing a new split-screen feature for Edge that will let users compare two tabs side-by-side. The feature was discovered by a Reddit user named Leopeva64-2 and is…
- Technology
Microsoft Teams new feature to allow real-time editing in chat
New Delhi: Microsoft has introduced a new feature to Teams — Loop Component, which will allow real-time editing in chat. With this, participants will be able to compose and edit anything ranging…
- Technology
Microsoft invests billions of dollars in ChatGPT developer OpenAI
San Francisco: Microsoft on Monday announced a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar investment in OpenAI, the developer behind AI-driven ChatGPT which has become a rage. The tech giant, which infused $1 billion in OpenAI in…
- Technology
Techies earning up to USD 1 mn a year laid off at Big Tech firms
San Francisco: As Big Tech layoffs dominate headlines, more details have emerged on which verticals and senior executives earning up to $1 million annually bore the maximum brunt at Google, Microsoft, and…
- Technology
ChatGPT’s paid version available for USD 42 a month for some early users
New Delhi: Some ChatGPT users on Monday posted on social media that they have been granted access to a “ChatGPT Professional” version which costs $42 a month. OpenAI, the Microsoft-owned AI company…
- World
How Google’s layoff announcement different from other companies
Google’s parent company Alphabet recently announced layoffs of 12,000 employees, or about 6 percent of its workforce, globally. After the announcement, it joined the Big Tech league of Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft…
- Technology
Microsoft begins to roll out tabs in Notepad for Windows 11
New Delhi: Microsoft has announced that it is beginning to roll out the tabs feature in Notepad for Windows 11. In December, 2022, a Microsoft employee had accidentally announced the tabs feature…
- Hyderabad
Microsoft plans three more data centres in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Software giant Microsoft plans to expand their data centre investment in Hyderabad by setting up three more data centres, the Telangana government announced on Thursday. Microsoft had last year announced its…
- Jobs
I’m on visa, have limited time: Sacked Indian-origin Microsoft worker
New Delhi: As Microsoft begins job cuts, affected employees have started looking for new jobs on LinkedIn, and among those impacted is an Indian-origin worker in the US who says “she is…
- World
Microsoft to lay off thousands of employees today: Report
Washington: Microsoft is set to lay off thousands of employees today. Citing Sky News, Reuters reported that thousands of roles would be cut, with the software giant looking to cut around 5…
- Technology
Microsoft releases new Windows 11 preview build for Insiders
San Francisco: Microsoft has released a new Windows 11 preview build for Insiders in the Dev Channel, which includes an updated version of Task Manager with a new feature for tinkerers, developers,…
