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Microsoft 365 services faced outage for some users, fixed now
London: Microsoft on Friday said it has fixed issues that led to outage of Microsoft 365 services for some users in the UK and Germany. Over 1,500 people in the UK reported…
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Siemens, Microsoft join hands to work on AI project
New Delhi: Industrial manufacturing major Siemens and tech giant Microsoft on Tuesday joined hands to bring the benefits of generative AI to industries worldwide. Working together, the companies are introducing Siemens Industrial…
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Giving up on Windows Phone was a mistake, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
New Delhi: Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella has said that the company’s exit from the smartphone business was a mistake which could have been handled better. After struggling to sell Windows…
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Microsoft’s net income surges 27 percent amid AI push
San Francisco: Riding on the AI wave, Microsoft reported $56.5 billion in revenue (up 13 percent) and a net income of $22.3 billion, an increase of 27 percent, during its first quarter…
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Microsoft opens pre-orders for new Laptop Go 3 in India
New Delhi: Microsoft on Thursday announced that pre-orders for new Laptop Go 3 device in India are now available via key retailers and select multi-brand stores. Consumers who pre-order the Surface Laptop…
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Popular game Minecraft sells over 300 mn copies to date
New Delhi: Popular Microsoft-owned game Minecraft has sold a massive 300 million copies to date, remaining one of the best-selling games of all time. It might feel like Minecraft’s blocky biomes have…
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Microsoft welcomes Activision Blizzard and their teams to Xbox
New Delhi: Top Microsoft leaders Satya Nadella and Brad Smith welcomed the closing of $68.7 billion transaction to acquire gaming giant Activision Blizzard, saying they affirm the commitment to labour principles and…
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Microsoft announces AI bug bounty programme, offers up to $15K reward
San Francisco: Microsoft has announced an AI bug bounty programme featuring the AI-powered Bing experience as the first in-scope product, with awards up to $15,000. The programme is to encourage researchers around…
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UK clears Microsoft’s new deal to buy gaming giant Activision for $68.7 bn
London: The UK’s anti-trust watchdog on Friday cleared the restructured deal for Microsoft to buy gaming giant Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, after it concluded that the new deal would preserve competitive…
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Microsoft completely blocks Windows 7 keys from activating Windows 11
New Delhi: You will not be able to activate Windows 11 with older keys from Windows 7 anymore as Microsoft has now completely blocked those from activating a copy of latest Windows…
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UK regulator places Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud dominance under intense scrutiny
London: UK media regulator Ofcom on Thursday referred the public cloud infrastructure services market to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for an independent investigation to further examine US tech giants Amazon…
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Microsoft’s Bing Chat responses injected by ads pushing malware: Report
San Francisco: Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that malicious advertisements or harmful ads are now being distributed via Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing Chat responses, promoting fake download sites that spread malware, a new report…
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Microsoft Edge shuts tablet-friendly ‘Web Select’ feature
San Francisco: Microsoft has shut down its most applauded feature, “Web Select” — from Edge browser. To improve end-user experience, the Web Select feature “is being deprecated and will no longer be…
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Microsoft rolls out ‘background removal’ tool in Paint
San Francisco: Microsoft has started to roll out a new “background removal” tool in its Paint app on Windows 11 Insider builds. With this tool, users will be able to remove the…
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Microsoft reveals how China-based hackers stole its consumer email key
San Francisco: China-backed hackers stole a digital consumer key from Microsoft to gain unfettered access to US government emails and the tech giant has detailed how the cyber criminals pulled off one…
