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Microsoft Gains Allies In Overseas Data Legal Tussle

Microsoft's legal battle against attempts to access customer data held overseas gains influential backers

10 years ago

Salesforce Cosies Up With Microsoft For Universal File Sharing

External files, including from Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business, can be natively embedded into Salesforce business processes

10 years ago

Accenture Looks To Hire 1,600 UK Staff In 2015

Consultancy on the prowl for IT experts across UK cities

10 years ago

Skype To Translate Speech And Text With New Preview

Skype can now translate text into 40 languages and speech into English and Spanish

10 years ago

Windows 10 Leak Reveals Cortana Integration

Desktop Cortana will act just like her Windows Phone counterpart

10 years ago

Microsoft To Open Source ‘Orleans’ Cloud Framework

Microsoft's Extreme Computing Group is set to take Project Orleans open source following public previews earlier this year

10 years ago

Microsoft Jumps Aboard Bitcoin Bandwagon

Microsoft becomes the latest firm to accept payments made using the bitcoin virtual currency

10 years ago

6 Simple Steps To Surviving Windows Server 2003 End-of-life

Peter Tsai, Spiceworks IT analyst, explains how IT departments can avoid migration misery in 2015

10 years ago

Microsoft Expands Document Inspector for Office Suite

Microsoft updates its Office Document Inspector to stop users leaking personal data when sharing documents

10 years ago

Microsoft Azure Government Cloud Hits General Availability

After more than a year in preview, Redmond makes general available its Azure Government Cloud service

10 years ago

Microsoft Azure RemoteApp To Deliver Windows Apps To Android, iOS

Microsoft Azure RemoteApp available to everyone later this month, promising remote delivery is better than a native app

10 years ago

Microsoft Calls It Time On The Nook Tablet

Loss-making Nook e-reader device, launched by bookseller Barnes & Noble has suffered from major drop in sales over last year

10 years ago

Microsoft Acquires Mobile Email Start-Up Acompli

Acompli's software is available on Android and iOS and allows users to manage email from sources including Outlook, Gmail and…

10 years ago

HP To Offer Office 365 With Enterprise Support

HP will let customers choose in which data centre their Office 365 documents are stored

10 years ago

Microsoft Planning Lumia 1020 Successor?

Leaked images seem to show upcoming Lumia device with super-sized camera

10 years ago

Microsoft Lets Slip Acompli Acquisition

Oops. Has Microsoft let the cat out of the bag regarding a possible acquisition of email startup Acompli?

10 years ago

Fitness Devices ‘Will Dominate The Wearable Market’

Juniper Research findings estimate wearable usage will treble as more high-profile devices are launched

10 years ago

Real Madrid Fans And Staff To Gain From Microsoft Tech Deal

Microsoft becomes the European Champions' official tech partner, providing the club with devices and services

10 years ago

Microsoft Releases Emergency Windows Server Security Fix

Microsoft says vulnerability has been exploited in the wild and can't wait for the next Patch Tuesday

10 years ago

Microsoft Azure Suffers Global Outage

Xbox Live and MSN among services affected as Azure platform goes down in several areas

10 years ago

Microsoft To Close Nokia Store And Replace It With Opera

The Nokia Store will close next year but Opera Mobile Store will continue to provide apps for Nokia feature phones…

10 years ago

Nokia Returns To Take On The iPad With All-New N1 Tablet

7.9in tablet running Android Lollipop and a 2.4GHz processor will be available early next year

10 years ago

Microsoft’s Big Data Cloud Broadens Support

The company's cloud-based Hadoop offering now offers support for customized Hadoop projects. First up, scripts that install Spark and R

10 years ago

Still Alive – Nokia Plans To Licence Its Brand Name To Third Parties

News of future third-party tie-ups comes as the company teases a mysterious black box set for launch tomorrow

10 years ago

Microsoft To Take .NET Cross-Platform To Linux, Mac

By taking .NET cross-platform and open-sourcing the technology, Microsoft wants to be all things to all developers

10 years ago

Huge Patch Tuesday Update Tackles Critical Bugs

Experts urge Windows users to download the mammoth Patch Tuesday update immediately

10 years ago

Microsoft To Release Dynamics AX ERP Hybrid Cloud Update In December

Cloud first, indeed. New features allow customers to run their ERP environments on hybrid clouds powered, in part, by Microsoft…

10 years ago

Microsoft Replaces Lync With Skype For Business

New rebranded service will be available from early next year

10 years ago

Microsoft Announces First ‘Non-Nokia’ Lumia Smartphone – For Under £100

Lumia 535 is colourful mid-range device running Windows Phone 8.1

10 years ago

New Microsoft Office Apps For iPhone, iPad And Android Can Actually Edit Files

Microsoft releases new mobile apps that can edit documents without an Office 365 subscription

10 years ago