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Microsoft is aiming to better position itself for evolving technology areas with the rollout of numerous executive changes, including the departure of a 21-year Microsoft veteran.

Terry Myerson will be leaving Microsoft after 21 years, while Nadella reveals a number of other executive changes at the company.

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Microsoft India underlines commitment to democratize artificial intelligence Bengaluru, March 28, 2018 : At its AI for All conference in Bengaluru, Microsoft India today showcased some of its most recent artificial intelligence (AI) solutions aimed at helping improve lives and transform businesses. Microsoft India said it is helping 650 India-based partners use the Microsoft cognitive services, IoT, AI and machine learning platforms to build solutions for India. Over the last year, Microsoft and its partners have deployed AI solutions in areas such as healthcare, education, agriculture, retail, e-commerce, manufacturing and financial services. Today Microsoft also announced a partnership with Forus Health, a Bengaluru-based technology company focusing on retinal imaging devices, to leverage AI capabilities for early detection of diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma & macular degeneration, and help reduce avoidable blindness. “ We are working closely with our partners to bring AI to al

Customers had long been clamoring for a text-based command shell for troubleshooting instances with misperforming operating systems.

Morgan Stanley tells clients that Microsoft's cloud portfolio and large customer base make it an attractive investment, even as its market cap climbs.

Hyderabad, March 26, 2018 : Microsoft today announced the formal opening of the Microsoft Garage at Hyderabad. The Garage is a resource to Microsoft employees that supports experimentation and encourages problem solving in new and innovative ways, ultimately empowering people to achieve more. The Garage facility at the Microsoft India Development Center in Hyderabad was inaugurated today by Sri. K. Taraka Rama Rao, Hon’ble Minister for IT, Govt. of Telangana, in the presence of Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Govt of Telangana, Jeff Ramos, Partner Director, Microsoft Garage , Anil Bhansali, Corporate Vice President, Cloud & Enterprise, Managing Director, Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited, T. K. Rengarajan , Corporate Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Research (AI&R) Microsoft Global and Reena Dayal Yadav , Director, Microsoft Garage – India. The Garage is a platform for Microsoft employees that supports and encourages a culture of experimentation, w

Partnership announcements have long been a tool for pumping altcoins and shilling ICOs. In fact, promoters are now interpreting the term so broadly that if they are using Word to write a whitepaper or Gmail to handle communications they might as well claim to be partners of Google and Microsoft. The most infamous example of overstating partnerships is IOTA, but two recent examples show how the misleading practice is spreading and even evolving.   Also Read: Mainstream Media Reports of “Blockchain Elections” in Sierra Leone Are All Fake News BMW Carvertical “Partnership” German car manufacturer BMW had to come out on Tuesday and explain that it had no cooperation with an ICO project called Carvertical. The promoters had claimed to partner with the automobile company to become “the first blockchain company integrating connected vehicles data onto vehicle reports system.” However, BMW explained that they are merely using a data tool it made available for anyone. Instead of apologizi

The latest update of the cloud-based customer engagement suite adds apps for smaller organizations and infuses sophisticated analytics, data models and machine learning capabilities into a wide range of extensible business solutions.

Researchers and partners can earn six-figure payouts for discovering the next Meltdown or Spectre, or how Microsoft's cloud and operating systems can still be exploited through those known vulnerabilities

Researchers and partners can earn six-figure payouts for discovering the next Meltdown or Spectre, or how Microsoft's cloud and operating systems can still be exploited through those known vulnerabilities

New Delhi, March 12, 2018 – In a study to measure the social and economic impact of cloud usage among 275 SMBs across 11 Indian cities*, Microsoft and the Thought Arbitrage Research Institute (TARI) found that small and medium sized companies (SMBs) improved their chances of better market access and profitability by three times with high use of cloud technologies. The study captured data showing significant increase in market reach, improvement in employee productivity and operational processes, and an improvement in work-life balance as a direct correlation of increased cloud usage. CEOs in SMBs said, the use of cloud technologies helped their companies with the flexibility of technology usage and by extension in carrying out business operations. They also said that cloud technologies have helped them better control over business and people processes. The study has, through a regression-based approach, established an empirical relationship predicting probability of impact on socio-e

More than 400,000 personal computers have been attacked in a large-scale attempt to distribute cryptocurrency mining malware. The hackers used sophisticated trojans to infect PCs mostly in Russia, but also in Turkey, Ukraine, and other countries. The coordinated assault lasted more than 12 hours. Also read: New Monero Mining Malware Sends Proceeds to Kim Il Sung University, North Korea Several Countries Affected, Russia Hit Harder The complex malicious software has been trying to overcome antivirus defenses for more than 12 hours on March 6. According to Microsoft, the majority of the attacked computers, 73%, were located in Russia, followed by Turkey with 18% and Ukraine – 4%. Other countries have also been affected. “Windows Defender blocked more than 80,000 instances of several sophisticated trojans that exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion methods”, the research team developing Microsoft’s AV software announced. More than

Microsoft unveils plans to update the Surface Hub in coming months, while also revealing upcoming updates to Windows 10 and Azure.

Before joining Twitter, he did research internships at AT&T, Microsoft and Yahoo.

New Delhi, March 08, 2018: Today, at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society ( HIMSS ) annual conference and exhibition in Las Vegas, NV, Microsoft announced the expansion of the Microsoft Intelligent Network for eyecare ( MINE ), now AI Network for Healthcare , to create an AI-focused network in cardiology, in partnership with one of the largest health systems in India, Apollo Hospitals . The AI Network for healthcare is part of Microsoft Healthcare NExT aimed to accelerate healthcare innovation through artificial intelligence and cloud computing. The partnership between Microsoft and Apollo will work to develop and deploy new machine learning models to predict patient risk for heart disease and assists doctors on treatment plans. The team is already working on an AI-powered Cardio API (application program interface) platform. “AI Network for healthcare aims to democratize artificial intelligence by empowering healthcare providers with faster, intuitive and pred

The Forbes Top 10 Billionaires list list features the likes of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, famed investor Warren Buffet, Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg among others.

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person, having snatched the top spot from Microsoft founder Bill Gates who slips to second place, according to Forbes magazine's annual billionaires...

Wreckage from the USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier which sank during World War II, has been discovered in the Coral Sea, a search team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced Monday.

BANGALORE, India — March 6, 2018 — Microsoft Corp. has announced the completion of its first renewable energy deal within the Karnataka state of India. The agreement will see Microsoft purchase 3 megawatts of solar-powered electricity from Atria Power to help power its new office building in Bangalore. This will meet 80 percent of the projected electricity needs at the new facility. This deal is part of a state government of Karnataka program to encourage investments in local solar energy operations, in line with the larger Indian government goal to ramp up solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022, as part of India’s efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. “Investing in local solar energy to help power our new Bangalore office building is good for Microsoft, good for India and good for the environment,” said Anant Maheshwari, president, Microsoft India. “We are proud to be deepening our long history of partnership and investment in India with this agreement. This d

The salvo of new offerings will bolster Microsoft's challenge to AWS for lucrative contracts hosting sensitive government workloads and powering infrastructure deployed in global hot spots.

The WAN optimization stalwart expands its SD-WAN offering to include connectivity and optimization for AWS Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute.

The company releases updates for the widely installed Fall Creators Update version of Windows 10.

On Tuesday, Microsoft co-founder and one of the world's richest men Bill Gates hosted his sixth Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything). The billionaire tech mogul responded to all kinds of questions on his...