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One of the world’s most affluent persons, Bill Gates, appears to have bought in to the rhetoric of popular media and government law enforcement accounts. Recently, Mr. Gates and his wife submitted to a Reddit Ask-Me-Anything (AMA), and Mr. Gates’ gave some unusual views on cryptocurrency.   Also read:   How To Regain Control From Nanny Zuck Bill Gates Was Once Pro Crypto The popular social media billboard platform, Reddit, is famous for its innovative feature, Ask-Me-Anything (AMA). It’s a freewheeling, open (mostly) question and response thread placing constituents or fans in near direct contact with the connected, famous, powerful. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 62, for close to a quarter century has occupied the title of  Forbes ‘ richest person in the world. Estimates in the many tens of billions float about Mr. Gates, as he’s since retired from active corporate and software development duty and instead developed into a philanthropist of the first order. Indeed, he and notoriou

An information and communications technology teacher hasn't stopped the lack of computers at the school he teaches in keep him from teaching his students about computers. How he does it is nothing...

The Chinese device giant entered an agreement with Microsoft for greater cooperation around cloud expansion and the delivery of artificial intelligence capabilities across devices.

Red Hat pulls ahead with slightly higher marks in a CRN survey of partners nationwide. Partners of both vendors told CRN that both companies proved their mettle in response to the chip vulnerability crisis.

The six-week program it is bringing to customers includes a cloud migration plan, cloud ROI analysis, and a road map for moving cloud applications in the future.

Reaffirming its commitment towards transforming the education landscape, the government of Tamil Nadu today announced an agreement with Microsoft to improve the integration of technology in teaching...

  Chennai, February 23, 2018: Reaffirming its commitment towards transforming the education landscape, the government of Tamil Nadu today announced an agreement with Microsoft to improve the integration of technology in teaching and learning in the state. The partnership was announced by Shri K.A. Sengottaiyan, Minister for School Education, Government of Tamil Nadu at an event attended by academia and regulators. It aims to reform education, build tech capacity and enhance digital literacy across all levels. As a part of the agreement, Microsoft will adopt seven schools identified by the government and train their teachers and students around building 21 st century skills which includes critical thinking, creative coding & gaming, app development, robotics, and entrepreneurship. Microsoft will also offer its Microsoft Innovative Educator Program to all educators in primary, secondary, vocational and tertiary education across the state. Additionally, the company will train and

New Delhi, February 21, 2018 : On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, Microsoft has announced support for email addresses in 15 Indian languages across its email apps and services, including Office 365, Outlook 2016, Outlook.com, Exchange Online and Exchange Online Protection (EOP). For the first time, users will be able to use local language email addresses for Outlook accounts on PCs, e.g.,   व्यक्ति@संगठन.भारत . It will also allow users to now seamlessly send/receive mails to/from local language email addresses via Outlook client on PCs, outlook.com in addition to Outlook apps for Android and IOS. This initiative is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to support Email Address Internationalization (EAI) across its products and services eco-system and make technology accessible in local languages. Languages supported for local language email addresses Hindi, Bodo, Dogri, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, Sindhi, Bengali, Gujarati, Manipuri, Punjabi, Tamil, Tel

A recent CRN channel partner survey found that Google received the highest scores among cloud providers in its response to widespread Spectre and Meltdown exploits, beating AWS and Microsoft.

Google's deal to acquire IoT business Xively will Boost the capabilities of Google Cloud's IoT Core Platform and help Google go head-to-head in IoT with cloud competitors AWS and Microsoft Azure.

Amazon surpassed Microsoft in market value for the first time on Wednesday evening after markets closed. The two market leaders directly compete in the cloud, and Amazon has attributed 10 percent of its recent growth to Amazon Web Services.

IT professionals will now have improved visibility into the versions of firmware, operating system and anti-virus software running on Windows devices.

Sullivan's hire comes less than a year after Boston, Mass.-based Turbonomic signed former Microsoft sales leader Jennifer Heard as channel chief, and it means her role is changing to focus exclusively on the cloud as senior vice president of cloud partnerships.

A multi-cloud data protection technology like CloudPoint 2.0 is important because customers do not use only one cloud, says Veritas' Alex Sakaguchi, who adds that integration with AWS and other clouds is coming.

International Business Machines Corp sued its former executive Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, who was named Microsoft Corp's new chief diversity officer over the weekend.

Microsoft is extending support for key Windows 10 security capabilities to Windows 7, which remains popular with many businesses.

New Delhi, February 10, 2018: India’s largest online lending marketplace Paisabazaar.com has entered into a partnership with Microsoft to drive ‘industry first’ technology innovations on its platform using artificial intelligence and machine learning. As part of the overall partnership, Paisabazaar.com will move its entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. Being India’s largest digital lending platform, Paisabazaar.com receives customers from varied segments from more than 750 cities and towns across India every month. By building cutting-edge technology on Microsoft cloud, Paisabazaar.com intends to offer customized, tailor-made and secure solutions for each consumer coming to its platform. Paisabazaar.com will work extensively on futuristic technologies like artificial intelligence and machine learning to benefit customers in three key ways: It will help identify customer needs more accurately , factoring in their lifestyle and life-stage. It will help sharpen product recomme

By building the technology on Microsoft Cloud, Paisabazaar.com would offer customised, tailor-made and secure solutions for each consumer coming to its platform.

Security specialist Symantec will now be bolstering security to for Microsoft Azure and Office 365 environments via an extended partnership between the two companies, making it easier for businesses to adopt hybrid cloud, while giving partners more cloud security opportunities.

The offer, which runs until June 30, applies to existing storage contracts for Box, Dropbox or Google Drive and is available to customers who commit to 500 seats.

Security specialist Symantec will now be bolstering security to for Microsoft Azure and Office 365 environments via an extended partnership between the two companies, making it easier for businesses to adopt hybrid cloud, while giving partners more cloud security opportunities.

The offer, which runs until June 30, applies to existing storage contracts for Box, Dropbox or Google Drive and is available to customers who commit to 500 seats.

The Bee Token, 2018’s most eagerly anticipated and oversubscribed ICO, has had a disastrous start to its crowdsale. Over 100,000 people had applied to be whitelisted, and the anticipation in the group’s Telegram channel was palpable. The moment the public sale launched on Monday, everything fell to pieces as phishing emails successfully stole over $400,000 in ether and counting. To compound matters, The Bee Token team went into denial about the extent of the problem, exacerbating the community’s losses and causing widespread anger. Also read:   Neo ICOs Make a Shaky Start The Bee Token Loses Its Buzz Up until yesterday, decentralized Airbnb platform The Bee Token was a textbook case in how to run a crowdsale. It had developed an engaged and passionate community, had performed meticulous KYC and whitelist verification, and had fairly set a low cap and low contribution limits of 0.1 to 0.2 ETH to allow as many people as possible to take part. Even so, the team had to turn a vast nu