Seattle: Microsoft Corp. chief executive Satya Nadella announced a broad reorganization of the company’s senior executive ranks as long-time chief operating officer Kevin Turner prepares to leave for another job.

Instead of naming one new COO, Nadella appointed two executives to divvy up the sales responsibilities and report to him. Jean-Philippe Courtois will be in charge of global sales, marketing and operations spanning Microsoft’s 13 business areas, Nadella said in a note to employees on Thursday.

Ultimate gaming is soon going to be more fun with Microsoft starting the Xbox summer sale from July 5 and is offering discounts between 40 to 60 per cent on over 250 games.

In addition, Microsoft will also offer Xbox One consoles with special pricing. Xbox Live Gold members will receive an additional 10 percent discount.

Technology giant Microsoft has acquired a messaging-app developer founded by an Indian as the US-based software firm aims to strengthen its position in the emerging era of combining the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence.

Microsoft acquired California-based Wand Labs, a start-up which builds messaging technology for apps, founded in 2013 by IIT-Delhi alumnus Vishal Sharma who was previously the vice president, products at Google.

Though you could argue with the 49.5% premium, given Microsoft’s mixed luck with mergers/takeovers such as the one with Nokia, the $26.2billion being spent on acquiring LinkedIn probably makes the most sense on the face of things.

Though Microsoft has 1.2 billion Office users—LinkedIn has over 400 million professionals on its network—it has been losing relevance for a variety of reasons, many of which are related to what is called the power of the network.

Microsoft Corp., which agreed to buy LinkedIn Corp for $26.2 billion in cash on Monday, is clearly strengthening its real-time cloud-based unified communications (UC) suite for enterprises with the purchase of the professional networking site even though its earlier acquisitions of similar companies like Lync, Yammer and Skype indicate that integration will hold the key to a successful outcome.

Nearly a dozen leading IT companies on Friday declined to confirm or acknowledge employees right to form labour unions to redress their grievances invoking the provisions of Industrial Disputes Act 1947.

Some of the tightlipped IT companies are Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Flipkart, Microsoft, Mphasis, Juniper and Amazon India.

WASHINGTON: Microsoft and Facebook have joined hands to lay a giant state-of-the-art sub-sea cable across the Atlantic Ocean connecting the US with Europe and beyond so as to facilitate faster speed and access to the Internet.

The new "MAREA" cable will help meet the growing customer demand for high speed, reliable connections for cloud and online services for Microsoft, Facebook and their customers, a media release said.

Microsoft told the United Nations that technology companies can do more to combat digital terror, but warned there was no single solution to prevent terrorists from using the web.

"There is no silver bullet that will stop terrorists use of the Internet," Microsoft's vice president Steven Crown told a special Security Council debate on counter-terrorism.

New York: Did you know Microsoft makes smartphones? It does! But it shouldn’t anymore.

It has been almost two years since Microsoft became a smartphone company by buying pieces of cellphone pioneer Nokia. The $9.5 billion deal was Steve Ballmer’s 137th attempt to make Microsoft relevant in consumer computing beyond personal computers (PCs).

Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella on Wednesday outlined the technology giant’s vision to combine the power of human language with advanced machine intelligence as he announced new updates to the operating system Windows 10 to create more personal computing for every customer.

“As an industry, we are on the cusp of a new frontier that pairs the power of natural human language with advanced machine intelligence,” Nadella said in his keynote address to thousands of developers at Build 2016, its annual mega-gathering of developers that kicked-off today where the company presents its latest tools and technologies.

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