Microsoft XCloud game service to offer free streaming to phones
Posted on 12th June 2019 |
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SAN FRANCISCO: Microsoft Corp. said a new service that will let users play video games from their Xbox consoles on their smartphones will be offered for free. The service, which will be rolled out starting in October, is one part of the company’s new xCloud game-streaming strategy. |
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Microsoft unveils Project Scarlett, the next-gen Xbox: All you need to know
Posted on 10th June 2019 |
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Microsoft Corp unveiled on Sunday its next-generation Xbox console, known as "Project Scarlett," which is set to hit store shelves during the 2020 holiday season. The device will be four times more powerful than the Xbox One X console and be powered by an Advanced Micro Devices chip, the company said during its Xbox E3 conference in Los Angeles. |
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Microsoft reboots the way it works with software developers
Posted on 4th June 2019 |
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In 2014, Microsoft Corp. cloud chief Scott Guthrie wrote up a proposal to acquire GitHub Inc. Then he filed the plan away in a drawer. Every once in a while he'd take the plan out and look at it, and then return it to the cabinet. Guthrie felt Microsoft just wasn't ready to acquire the popular open-source company -- a widely used digital hive where millions of software programmers collaborate on, share and store code. “We would have screwed it up," Guthrie said. |
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Microsoft announces Xbox subscription service for PC gaming
Posted on 31st May 2019 |
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Microsoft Corp. will begin selling a subscription service for personal computer video games, two years after unveiling a similar offering for the Xbox console. Xbox Game Pass for PC offers access to more than 100 titles on Windows 10 for a monthly fee, rather than requiring individual purchases. They include games from studios including Bethesda, which makes the “Elder Scrolls” series, and Sega, as well as studios that Microsoft has acquired. |
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What Microsoft's modern Windows OS has in store for you
Posted on 30th May 2019 |
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Microsoft is believed to be working on an operating system that will be more secure, stay connected all the time and carry out updates quietly in the background. In a blog post by Microsoft, published on the sidelines of ongoing Computex 2019 tech event in Taiwan, Nick Parker, CVP of Consumer and Device Sales talks about a 'modern OS' for modern PCs. |
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Artificial intelligence adoption to raise productivity by over 2 times in India by 2021: Microsoft
Posted on 27th May 2019 |
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Adoption of artificial intelligence is expected to help double the rate of industrial innovation, and may result in over two times jump in employee productivity in India by 2021, a study by tech giant Microsoft said Monday. The study, conducted by research firm IDC on behalf of Microsoft, said organisations that have adopted AI saw tangible improvements in the range of 8-22 per cent in areas like customer engagement, margins and competitiveness. |
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Microsoft inks pact with VMware to keep up with Amazon in cloud computing
Posted on 30th April 2019 |
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Microsoft Corp. unveiled a partnership with VMware Inc. in a bid to bring more customers to its Azure cloud-computing service, emulating a pact that has benefited rival Amazon.com Inc. The agreement will let VMware customers move their technology systems to Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing services, the companies said Monday in a statement. |
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Microsoft tops $1 trillion after strong Q3 earnings, cloud growth forecast
Posted on 25th April 2019 |
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Microsoft Corp on Wednesday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud computing business. The Redmond, Washington-based company beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly profit and revenue, powered by an unexpected boost in Windows revenue and brisk growth in its cloud business which has reached tens of billions of dollars in sales. |
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Microsoft employees decry Jack Ma backed '996' Chinese work culture
Posted on 23rd April 2019 |
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San Francisco: A group of Microsoft employees has come forward to support Chinese tech workers on the gruelling '996' culture, writing a petition in defence of a trending GitHub repository that is being censored in China. In a letter written on web-hosting service Github, owned by Microsoft, the employees have asked the company to keep the "996.ICU" GitHub repository uncensored, The Verge reported on Monday. |
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Microsoft partnership ‘complimentary’ fit from biz growth standpoint: Adobe
Posted on 28th March 2019 |
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After forging a strategic partnership with Microsoft to strengthen cloud-based customer experience management (CXM) tools, software major Adobe has said this partnership is a “complementary” fit for both the companies from the standpoint of business growth. “The business model is pretty simple I would say. They (Microsoft) will build a lot of platforms and market ecosystem. We focus on selling our solutions. |
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