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Bill Gates hails India for scientific innovation, Covid vaccine production

US business magnate, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates on Tuesday applauded India's effort in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic

Microsoft says hackers viewed source code, could not make changes to it

Microsoft said in a blog post that hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of US government agencies and private companies snuck farther into its systems than previously thought

This former Facebook India head finds his sweet spot in vernacular content

Umang Bedi's firm VerSe capitalised on the ban on Chinese apps by launching 'Josh', which claims to have over 77 million monthly active users, 36 million daily users ad 1.5 billion video plays a day

How vernacular platform Dailyhunt plans to take on Facebook in Bharat

The vernacular platform's parent VerSe has become a unicorn after over $100 mn funding from Google, Microsoft and others

Indian TikTok clone gets Google, Microsoft backing in $100 mn fund raise

This comes months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banned in the country

Microsoft, Google, Dell join FB in legal battle against hacking company NSO

Tech giants including Microsoft and Google on joined Facebook's legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing a brief that warned that the Israeli firm's tools were "powerful, and dangerous"

Microsoft announces 'together mode' viewing option for Skype: Report

'Together mode' is a viewing option that makes it appear as if all meeting participants are located in the same physically shared space instead of via a traditional grid view.

iPhone maker Wistron agrees to lapses in payment of wages, sacks India VP

Assures that all workers will be fully compensated immediately

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems from SolarWinds

Microsoft also had its own products leveraged to attack victims, said people familiar with the matter

US nuclear agency, three states, Microsoft attacked by Russian hackers

The hack of the nuclear agency was reported earlier by Politico. Microsoft spokesman said the company had found malicious code in its environment

Amazon asks US judge to toss out $10 bn cloud contract award to Microsoft

Amazon urged a US judge to toss out the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award after a court-ordered re-evaluation determined Microsoft's proposal still represented the best value

Tech overhaul via public-private partnership will hasten recovery: Nadella

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is of the view that technology is going to be an exponential change

Decoded: Why Facebook is being sued by the US government and 48 states

Facebook may have to sell Instagram and WhatsApp

Microsoft Flight Simulator coming to Xbox Series in summer 2021

Microsoft Flight Simulator is all set to come for players on Xbox Series X as well as S at some point in summer 2021 and will be available on Game Pass from day one.

Microsoft rolls out Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux customers in India

Microsoft on Thursday announced the general availability of its Azure Hybrid Benefit solution for Linux customers in India.

Microsoft, ITV among 13 more firms to join Amazon's Climate Pledge

With the 13 new signatories, 31 companies have now joined The Climate Pledge

Salesforce agrees to buy workplace app Slack in $27.7 billion deal

Salesforce agreed to buy workplace app Slack in a $27.7 billion deal, biggest by the cloud-computing pioneer as it bets on an extended run for remote working and sharpens its rivalry with Microsoft

Microsoft links Vietnamese hackers to cryptomining malware campaign

Microsoft has revealed that Vietnamese government-backed hackers are deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware alongside their regular cyber-espionage toolkits.

Microsoft Teams will stop working on Internet Explorer 11 from Nov 30

Microsoft Teams will no longer work on Internet Explorer 11 starting November 30, 2020, as per a prior announcement made by the company.According to Mashable, the tech company had made the announcement regarding this back in August where the company had stated, "Microsoft 365 apps and services will not support Internet Explorer 11 starting August 17, 2021 (Microsoft Teams will not support Internet Explorer 11 earlier, starting November 30, 2020)".Microsoft stated that customers will have a "degraded experience" or will be unable to connect to Microsoft 365 apps and services on Internet Explorer (IE) 11. When it comes to a "degraded experience", users may not be able to use the new Microsoft 365 features or certain features and might not even work when accessing the app or service via IE 11.As per Mashable, the decision to curb Microsoft Teams support on IE 11 is an attempt to move users to the company's Microsoft Edge browser."While we know this change will be difficult for some ...

IIT Placements: Microsoft may match its top offer last year of Rs 1.2 cr

Placements to begin virtually on December 1 as software giants take lead