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Microsoft Quantum Programming Tools Aim At Future Computers

IGNITE 2017: Microsoft announced a quantum computer programming language integrated with Visual Studio on the first day of the Ignite…

7 years ago

Microsoft & Facebook Lay Highest Capacity Transatlantic Cable

Microsoft and Facebook lay 160Tbps subsea cable between Virginia and Bilbao to protect Transatlantic traffic against natural disasters

7 years ago

Microsoft Updates Azure AI-Assisted Cloud Services For Streaming Media

The company is using artificial intelligence technologies to help streaming media customers derive more value out of their video content

7 years ago

Manchester Police Has More Than 1,000 PCs Still Running Windows XP

The UK's second largest police force still has a large amount of legacy Windows machines

7 years ago

Outlook.com Users Hit By Day-Long Outage Across UK, Europe

An issue with load-balancing software caused messages to pile up, with some still undelivered on Tuesday morning

7 years ago

EU-US Privacy Shield Heads Into First Annual Review

The controversial pact faces its first test, as data protection policies under the new US administration spur European criticism

7 years ago

Microsoft Azure Diary: Azure Confidential Computing Encrypts Data In Use

AZURE NEWS: Microsoft's new security features are a 'first' for the public cloud

7 years ago

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Gives More Control Over Privacy & App Permissions

Microsoft makes moves to improve Windows 10 reputation for privacy in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

7 years ago

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Tackles 82 Security Flaws, Including One Zero-Day

Large number of patches from Microsoft this month, as Adobe warns of five critical issues

7 years ago

Microsoft, Facebook Partner On AI Framework Interoperability

The new open-source ONNX format will help developers move between AI frameworks with greater ease

7 years ago

Microsoft And Adobe Enhance Cloud Partnership With E-Signatures

Adobe and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership to drive e-signatures and collaboration among teams in the cloud.

7 years ago

Microsoft Shrinks Size Of Windows Nano Server Container Images

Final preview of Windows Server sports smaller Nano Server images and improved support for container orchestration tools

7 years ago

Huawei Plans Worldwide Cloud Partner Network To Rival AWS & Azure

The Shenzhen-based company said it plans to build one of the world's biggest clouds by offering technologies and services through…

7 years ago

Amazon Alexa & Microsoft Cortana Will Work Together

Two companies make surprise moves to encourage interoperability between Alexa and Cortana

7 years ago

Microsoft Takes On AI Challenge With Project Brainwave

Redmond's deep learning acceleration board is said to deliver real-time artificial intelligence

7 years ago

Microsoft & Red Hat Broaden Hybrid Container Support

A new deal sees the two companies making it easier to deploy Red Hat and Microsoft technologies in hybrid application…

7 years ago

Intel Kaby Lake-R Promises PC Performance Boost Ahead Of ‘Coffee Lake’

Intel claims Kaby Lake-R will offer twice the performance of a five year old PC when the first computers arrive…

7 years ago

Skype For Desktop Gets Redesign & Mobile App Features

Skype is given a lick of paint, GIF support and easier media sharing as Microsoft looks to replicate the mobile…

7 years ago

Microsoft Touts Serverless Computing With Azure Event Grid

Look Mum, no server. Azure Event Grid service allows for the easy creation of serverless workflows

7 years ago

Microsoft Boosts Azure HPC With Cycle Computing Acquisition

Microsoft hopes Cycle Computing deal will make it easier for any company to take advantage of cloud-based HPC on Azure

7 years ago

Microsoft’s Bill Gates Donates £3.6bn To Charity

Microsoft co-founder makes huge charity donation, as he continues Foundation's philanthropic work

7 years ago

Microsoft Azure Targets Australian Government With Two New Regions Down Under

Two new Azure regions will open in in Australia in 2018, promising the highest level of security for government data

7 years ago

Windows 10 Pro For Workstation Boosts Performance And Resiliency For ‘Sever Grade’ Systems

Microsoft unleashes more power for high end systems with Windows 10 Pro for Workstations arriving as part of the Fall…

7 years ago

Tales In Tech History: Lotus Software

Lotus Software had the opportunity to dominate the Office sector for the emerging PC market. What happened?

7 years ago

Microsoft Coco Framework Promises Speedy Blockchain Service

Open source framework to help firms handling thousands of transactions per second in a secure manner

7 years ago

Kaspersky Lab To Withdraw Microsoft Antitrust Complaint

Kaspersky antitrust complaint to be withdrawn after Microsoft agrees changes for Windows users

7 years ago

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Tackles 48 Flaws, But Adobe Acrobat Dominates

Largish patch update from Microsoft, but administrators advised to tackle Adobe updates ASAP

7 years ago

BBC Partners With Microsoft For Voice-Activated iPlayer Experiment

The BBC has some big plans for the future of iPlayer as voice recognition software continues to evolve

7 years ago

Microsoft Adds Eye Control Beta To Windows 10

Microsoft Edge and Windows Defender Application Guard have also received improvements

7 years ago

Samsung Galaxy Book Review: Windows 10 Hybrid Hubris

We take a closer look at the 10.6in Samsung Galaxy Book. Can it usurp the Microsoft Surface as the king…

7 years ago