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The company's cloud and productivity businesses drove major growth during its fiscal second quarter.

Companies including Microsoft are working to eliminate the 'unpredictable system behavior' caused by Intel's latest patches for the Spectre vulnerability.

This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com does not endorse nor support this product/service. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. Children of Satoshi first of slate of films headed for Blossom TV platform London LiveTree ADEPT, the world’s first platform for the creation, funding, rights management and distribution of film and TV projects using the blockchain, has announced a partnership with pioneering independent production company The 21 Million Project. Under the partnership, LiveTree ADEPT, which launches the main ICO (Initial Coin Offering) sale of its digital token Seed on the January 31, will provide The 21 Million Project with a pre-pay-per-view platform for its six-part action-drama Children of Satoshi. Set in the world of cryptography and espionage, the hard-hitting storyline focuses on the rise o

The CRN Test Center compares the latest model of the Surface Pro 2-in-1 with the newly redesigned XPS 13. Here's how the Microsoft Surface Pro stacks up with Dell's new XPS 13.

Microsoft unveiled a significant price cut to its Azure Standard support and also shortened its response time for critical cases, which could help the cloud giant better battle for business customers with the likes of AWS and Google.

An overhaul of Microsoft's sales incentives that took place last summer is driving growth for partners, according to Microsoft Channel Chief Gavriella Schuster.

Payment processor Stripe is halting bitcoin support. Declaring that “there are fewer and fewer use cases for which accepting or paying with Bitcoin makes sense,” the online payments specialist is calling it a day on cryptocurrency for the time being. Over the past month, a handful of other companies have also rolled back bitcoin support, usually citing high fees which make micropayments impractical. Also read:   New Research: 10% of Funds Raised in ICOs Lost or Stolen Bitcoin Gets the Boot Stripe is a $9 billion company run by Irish siblings and youthful entrepreneurs Patrick and John Collison. Stripe had been very receptive to cryptocurrency, and were it not for rising transaction fees, bitcoin would still be very much part of its plans. In a blog post published on Tuesday, project manager Tom Karlo explained the reasons for the volte-face: Our hope was that Bitcoin could become a universal, decentralized substrate for online transactions and help our customers enable buyers in

Microsoft unveils new learning tools and affordable devices that are aimed at rivaling Google's Chromebook dominance in schools.

The IOTA project is again the target of public anger and criticism. This time the issue is a feature of the technology that apparently allowed scammers to steal around $4 million from many unsuspecting users. Also Read: U.S. Rating Agency to Issue Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Grades Wednesday Poisonous Seeds IOTA, the network behind the 11th most valuable cryptocurrency in the world by market cap (MIOTA), is coming under an attack on social media and community forums. The technology behind the project is accused of enabling an apparent exit scam or hack which cost users about $4 million, according to reports. This is not the first time IOTA has come under attack. Back in December the project received a lot of public scorn for allegedly over hyping a “ partnership ” with Microsoft. What Happened? The IOTA wallet requires users independently generate their own seeds (private keys). Many users have relied on online key generators to do this, such as iotaseed.io. If someone malicio

The list of World's 100 Leading Tech Companies, topped by Microsoft, identifies the industry's most operationally sound and financially successful organisations, Thomson Reuters said.

This week in bitcoin was all about Korea, although every week in bitcoin is all about Korea. Markets dropping? Blame Korea. Markets soaring? Credit Korea. Zero fee trading sends a pointless altcoin pumping? You bet it comes from Korea. While real news, fake news, and news whose legitimacy is a matter of dispute emanated from the east, there were big stories breaking stateside, like the Miami bitcoin conference that can’t take bitcoin. Also read:   The Bitcoin.com Podcast Network Presents: This Week In Bitcoin You Heard It Here First We’re not prone to back slapping at news.Bitcoin.com, as smugness is never a good look. It would be fair to say however that a lot of this week’s biggest bitcoin stories started here before being picked up by the mainstream media, including European bank Nordea banning employees from owning cryptocurrency. Welcome to Miami where your dirty crypto’s no good, we reported, in another scoop, after the city’s annual bitcoin conference stopped accepting bitc

Bengaluru, January 12, 2018: Microsoft Accelerator, a global program built to empower start-ups, and Accenture Ventures , which partners with and invests in growth-stage companies that create innovative enterprise technologies, today announced a new ecosystem partnership that aims to strengthen the start-up ecosystem in India. The two companies will help growth-stage technology B2B start-ups boost their enterprise readiness and go-to market, and help achieve scale in national and international markets. This was announced at Microsoft Accelerator’s flagship event, ThinkNext 2018. The event, which was attended by over 400 business and industry thought leaders, start-ups, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs also marked the graduation Microsoft Accelerator’s 11 th winter cohort. Microsoft Accelerator and Accenture Ventures will support growth-stage technology B2B start-ups in India specializing in artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, augmented/virtual reality, blockchain, fin

The position gives the channel veteran an opportunity to double down on Nectar's relationships with Microsoft and Cisco Systems.

10th Magnitude is also getting a nationwide presence with the Northwest Cadence as it builds a business geared to helping Fortune 1000 businesses execute on digital transformation and migrate to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Microsoft said some AMD chips do not align with documentation previously provided by AMD. The exact spectrum of affected AMD processors has not been disclosed, but a spokesperson said the errors affect a subset of its "older" processors.

Ask anyone where they go to compare cryptocurrency valuations and straight as a flash they’ll reply “Coinmarketcap” (CMC). It is by far the dominant price checking site in the cryptosphere, with Alexa making it the 44th most popular site in the US. For all its might, over-reliance on a centralized data repository has its drawbacks, and goes against the very principles of the decentralized ecosystem. The following crypto comparison sites provide viable alternatives to CMC. Also read:   Microsoft Has Stopped Accepting Bitcoin Deposits Price Check Sites to Check Yesterday, the crypto markets dipped, with their movement partially attributed to Coinmarketcap changing the way it calculates the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies. This revision “wiped” $120 billion off CMC’s valuation of the crypto market, causing some sellers to think the markets were in a greater slump than they actually were. The incident illustrates the drawbacks of being dependant upon a single data source.

AWS, Google, and Microsoft revealed updates and patching plans for their popular cloud services in the wake of the Meltdown and Spectre chip-level vulnerabilities revealed this week. Solution providers say regular security patching can better protect customers from wide-reaching security threats.

The acquisition will give Microsoft access to high-performance cloud-based NAS technology, including both physical and virtual NAS appliances, and provide a new on-ramp for enterprise data to Azure.