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Microsoft joins Accenture to nurture B2B startups in India
Tue, Jun 30, 2020
"This initiative will truly help startups evolve from being market-ready to enterprise-ready with the best resources and support from both Microsoft and Accenture," said Lathika Pai, country head, Microsoft for Startups, MENA & SAARC.
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Microsoft to set up campus in UP soon
Tue, Jun 30, 2020
According to the minister, "The government had earlier said that it will make it simpler for investors willing to acquire land within 1 km distance on each side of the state`s expressways. The company has said that they want to move their North India campus to Greater Noida.
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Microsoft introduces personal version of Teams for video calls, chats, sharing
Wed, Jun 24, 2020
Microsoft has finally introduced a new version of popular work interaction platform Teams. The personal version of teams comes with similar features as the professional version except that it can be used with a personal account.
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Microsoft leads overall IoT platform landscape, AWS 2nd: Report
Sat, May 23, 2020
Microsoft Azure IoT platform is currently leading the overall Internet of Things (IoT) landscape in 26 out of 35 capabilities across Edge IoT, Cloud IoT and Platform Performance categories, a new report has documented.
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Microsoft Teams gets custom templates, chatbots, virtual appointments
Thu, May 21, 2020
"The first Fluid Framework integrations in Microsoft 365, coming to Outlook and Office.com, will enable you to collaborate on dynamic content and create connected components that can be shared simultaneously and seamlessly across apps," said Spataro.
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Microsoft announces dedicated Cloud for healthcare industry
Wed, May 20, 2020
Healthcare organisations can use Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare to extend the value of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Marketing, Dynamics 365 Customer Service, and Azure IoT to deploy consumer-friendly patient experience, connected physician and referral management and enhance patient engagement portals.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says permanent work from home is damaging
Mon, May 18, 2020
"What does burnout look like? What does mental health look like? What does that connectivity and the community building look like? One of the things I feel is, hey, maybe we are burning some of the social capital we built up in this phase where we are all working remote. What`s the measure for that?" Nadella was quoted as saying.
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Microsoft launches 'Back2Business' solutions for SMBs in India
Tue, May 12, 2020
"The Back2Business Solution Boxes offer speed in deployment and usage and flexibility with pay-as-you-go pricing, along with our commitment to privacy and security," Harish Vellat, Senior Director, Small and Mid-Corporate Business, Microsoft India, said in a statement.
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Microsoft Family Safety app available for preview on iOS, Android
Tue, May 12, 2020
"Set healthy boundaries with web and search filters to block mature content and set browsing to kid-friendly websites on Microsoft Edge. Get notified when your kids want to download a more mature app or game from the Microsoft Stores with age limits, keeping you in the know and helping to avoid surprises," informed Microsoft.
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Amazon Web Services and Microsoft engage in heated public spat over $10bn cloud project
Sun, May 10, 2020
After Microsoft slammed Amazon's Cloud arm for challenging the US government's decision to award $10 billion Pentagon Cloud project to Satya Nadella-run enterprise, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit back, saying Microsoft is doing "an awful lot of posturing".
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Want $1000? You will first have to hack Microsoft custom Linux OS
Thu, May 07, 2020
"This new research challenge aims to spark new high impact security research in Azure Sphere, a comprehensive IoT security solution delivering end to end security across hardware, OS and the cloud," said Sylvie Liu, a security programme manager at Microsoft`s Security Response Center.
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More trouble for Zoom, Google Meet, but JOY for you! Microsoft Teams to allow 250 participants in video calls
Wed, May 06, 2020
The ongoing battle between the video calling platforms is unlikely to slow down any time soon, much to the users joy! All the platforms are consistently pushing limits to allow more participants on chat and take an edge over competitors.
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Microsoft Teams hits 75mn daily users, supports live events with 1 lakh attendees
Thu, Apr 30, 2020
Nadella said that they are accelerating Teams innovation, adding new capabilities each week and now support meetings of all sizes, "meetings that scale from 250 active participants to live events for up to 100,000 attendees to streaming broadcast".
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