Microsoft will no longer be the parent of a friendly virtual chatbot for Chinese users. The company is spinning off the technology, known as Xiaoice or Xiaobing, ...
Microsoft is shedding its empathetic chatbot Xiaoice into an independent entity, the U.S. software behemoth said (in Chinese) Monday, confirming an earlier ...
Microsoft will spin off its XiaoIce artificial intelligence initiative as an independent venture, with the former head of its AI and Research Division…
The popular chatbot Xiaoice will be split off into an independent company from Microsoft. The bot gained popularity in China thanks to its conversational nature ...
Raise your seat backs and tray tables, Microsoft is taking off again with its refresh of the classic “Flight Simulator” franchise. The company announced Monday…
Microsoft Flight Simulator will launch on August 18th for PC. Microsoft has been holding private alpha testing of the new game in recent months, and it's ready for ...
After a series of closed alpha tests, Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios and Asobo Studio today announced that the next-gen Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 will ...
Microsoft has confirmed a release date for its eagerly-awaited next entry in the storied Flight Simulator series, which will drop on August 18th for PC.
Microsoft said Monday that its photorealistic Flight Simulator reboot can be downloaded now before the game unlocks on August 18 in three digital editions.
PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the winners and finalists of the 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards recognize ...
More details about Microsoft's first reorg of its fiscal 2021 are coming to light, including how it is positioning its new separate consulting services unit.
Microsoft and Samsung announced a new partnership Monday to build technology for the real estate industry. The companies will pair Samsung's smart home…
Today we're announcing a set of new features in Microsoft Teams that make virtual interactions more natural, more engaging, and ultimately, more human.
Allscripts is extending its partnership with Microsoft to tap into the tech giant's cloud and analytics technology to enhance its electronic health record software.
Online polling *service* SurveyMonkey was used as a disguise for a potentially damaging phishing attack that targeted Microsoft Office 365 users. Researchers at ...
Amazon.com Inc. shares rallied on Monday, and the advance lifted the company's market capitalization above Microsoft Corp. for the first time in more than a ...
Last week, Microsoft unveiled Project Freta, a cloud-based malware detection *service* (via Bleeping Computer). The project aims to detect malware that ...
SEATTLE, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Taqtile today announces it is the winner of the Mixed Reality 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award for its ...
When Microsoft introduced the Surface Duo late last year, it confirmed that it would be using Android as the operating system for the dual-screened device.
Windows malware is still a big problem. That's why Microsoft ships an antivirus named Microsoft Defender with Windows 10. It scans for malware in the ...
Microsoft has taken legal action to bring down a sophisticated cyber fraud scheme that targeted CEOs in more than 60 countries around the world. Microsoft ...
Today, a U.S. court unsealed detaiils of Microsoft's work disrupting cybercriminals that were taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic in an attempt to ...
In the last four months, work has changed drastically. But will these changes persist into the future? Our second Work Trend Index report explores this idea by ...
What strange times we live in. Who'd have thought that I'd be writing an article on how Microsoft is the best thing to happen to Google Chrome? A few years ago ...
Microsoft to continue to support customers online, with retail team members working remotely and at Microsoft corporate locations. REDMOND, Wash. — June ...
Those investors who declined to sell in May and go away are keeping a close eye on how state "reopenings" are affecting stocks, sectors and the economy, and ...
Attackers, confronted by security technologies that prevent memory corruption, like Code Integrity (CI) and Control Flow Guard (CFG), are expectedly shifting ...
REDMOND, Wash. — July 8, 2020 — Microsoft Corp. will publish fiscal year 2020 fourth-quarter financial results after the close of the market on Wednesday, ...
The OneDrive team is excited to announce new features that bring a more connected and flexible files experience to business users and more control to admins ...
Microsoft is continuing to block the May 2020/Windows 10 2004 update on certain devices, including many of its own Surface PCs, in spite of an apparent lifting ...
What I love most about gaming is its ability to bring people to together. Whether playing with your family on the couch or with a group of friends scattered ...
Two trillion dollars is a lot of money. Government stimulus and budget deficit kind of money. But there are now three American tech companies that could soon ...
FARGO, N.D.–Microsoft is partnering with the National Audubon Society's Audubon Dakota to advance the Urban Woods & Prairies Initiative. The Initiative ...
Atlanta is the launch city for Microsoft's new Accelerate programme which aims to aid economic recovery from COVID-19 and close the digital divide through ...
DENVER, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Aureus Tech Systems, a digital transformation company that provides accelerated intelligent cloud and edge solutions, ...
With the launch of next-generation consoles coming up later this year, Microsoft and Sony are ushering in the next era of gaming. The companies are taking ...
PRNewswire/ -- At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2020 (WAIC 2020) held online this year, Human Horizons announces its strategic partnership with ...
Do remote work and video meetings actually tax our brain more than in-person work? According to Microsoft, due to high levels of sustained concentration, brain ...
In the next interview I conducted at SMX West in early 2020, I sat down with the Senior Manager of Global Engagement at Microsoft Advertising, Purna Virji.
At Microsoft, we're building a “learn it all” culture where we aim to embrace curiosity, focus on being resourceful, and take our learnings and apply them for future ...
Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub said its services are operating normally after an incident that lasted almost four hours prevented users from accessing its website and ...
Microsoft and Zoom have said they will not process data requests made by the Hong Kong authorities while they take stock of a new security law. They follow ...
Microsoft named ONE Championship's preferred cloud provider, delivering new fan engagement experiences powered by Microsoft Azure and best-in-class ...
An email from CEO Satya Nadella to Microsoft employees: As I shared in our Employee Town Hall last month, and in my email earlier this month, we are ...
Together Mode in Teams puts you in the same virtual space as your coworkers. Microsoft. A new Microsoft Teams feature may give the video chat *service* an ...
This month, as communities around the world move from “remote everything” to a more hybrid model of work and life, I'm excited to let you know that many ...
SAS' AI and analytics more tightly integrate with Microsoft Azure; Microsoft to bring cloud-based SAS industry solutions to its customers. SAS and Microsoft logos.
More than a dozen tech companies filed a brief Monday in favor of a lawsuit to block a new Trump administration rule that requires in-person teaching for ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Magic Leap said on Tuesday that it had hired Peggy Johnson, a top executive at Microsoft, to be its chief executive, as the troubled ...
Just a year ago, we shared our first steps on a journey to enable our customers to protect endpoints running a variety of platforms with our announcement of ...
Windows 10 users who perform a *fresh* install of the operating system won't run into issues related to the creation of Recovery Partitions on the operating system ...
Towards the end of June, Microsoft surprised everyone by announcing it was shutting down Mixer, the streaming *service* it'd been attempting to build into a ...
Jun 22, 2020 | Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, CVP, CTO, Cloud + AI Security, and Sam George, CVP, Cloud + AI Azure IoT · Share on Facebook (opens new ...
Shares of Microsoft Corp. undefined rose 0.8% in premarket trading, which would put the on track to open in record territory, after Wedbush analyst Dan Ives...
Microsoft is refreshing its Windows 10 Start menu design and updating how Alt-Tab works. The new design is in testing and removes the colored blocks behind ...
Shares of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) continue to power higher. Let's check the charts and indicators to what price targets lie ahead and what risk levels we need to ...
Tokyo, June 25, 2020 — Hitachi, Ltd. and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced a multiyear strategic alliance to accelerate the digital transformation of the ...
Microsoft is going public with the next set of features coming to its Dynamics 365 ERP, CRM and HR apps, as well as its Power Platform apps. The rollout of ...
June was a cruel patching month, with loads of bugs, lots of initial confusion and a few belated fixes. We now have a pretty good handle on what's going bump in ...
Earlier this year, we announced that Live Presentations was coming soon, and we are excited to share that it is now generally available on PowerPoint for the ...
In the past several months, seemingly conflicting data has been published about cybercriminals taking advantage of the COVID-19 outbreak to attack consumers ...
1-ranked analyst Patrick Moorhead dives deeper as Microsoft recently announced new consumer features in Microsoft Teams that supports Microsoft Office ...
Microsoft has unveiled a new threat detection *service* that it hopes can greatly improve security protection on Linux systems. Project Freta is a free cloud-based ...
Microsoft has expressed interest in acquiring the games division of Warner Bros., the publisher behind popular game franchises based on Batman, Harry Potter ...
Microsoft tried a variety of tactics to grow Mixer, but ultimately shuttered the *service* to focus on other gaming products that have better prospects.
8BitDo has a new Xbox controller that's designed for Microsoft's xCloud *service*. The company has worked to create this miniature Xbox controller with custom ...
Dale Hirt, the project manager for PHP inside Microsoft, announced this week on the PHP mailing list that Microsoft is no longer going to offer official support of ...
If you wanted a look at how much ground Microsoft has to make up after this past Xbox One generation, a series of recent IGN polls are putting that into ...
We recently launched our differential privacy platform, which injects a small amount of statistical “noise” to large data sets to protect individual privacy without ...
Microsoft has been planning a second, cheaper and less power next-gen Xbox console. Codenamed Lockhart, it's designed to take most of the key next-gen ...
Microsoft is closing down its Mixer streaming *service* and partnering with Facebook Gaming. Existing Mixer partners and viewers will be transitioned over to ...
Project Natick is helping process workloads for Folding@home to understand the viral proteins that cause COVID-19 and design therapeutics to stop them.
Today, with the launch of Money in Excel, we are embarking on a journey to simplify your day-to-day money decisions to help you stay on track of your ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) recently announced a global skills initiative aimed to bring digital skills to 25 million people worldwide by the end of the ...
Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause, according to an internal chat ...
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has expressed interest in buying Warner Bros' gaming unit, The Information reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the ...
06/17 Update below. This post was originally published on June 14. Windows 10 users have been having a rough time for a long time. And now Microsoft has ...
One of the biggest names in streaming is heading to YouTube. Today, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins started streaming on Google's platform, finding a new home after the ...
Forza, Microsoft's long-running racing simulation series, will now begin issuing bans on players that customize their digital cars to include the confederate flag.
Microsoft is calling for a closer look at Apple's App Store practices. Microsoft's chief legal officer has criticized Apple's walled garden approach, just as Apple ...
Microsoft has a new Windows File Recovery tool to retrieve deleted documents. It's a command line app that works across local hard drives, SD cards, and USB ...
As I write this, class may be in session—most likely online—for many schools and universities around the world. Over the past several months, how we teach ...
Over 150 million students, faculty, institutional leaders, and teachers have been actively using Microsoft Education products, with Microsoft Teams as their ...
As the dual-screened Surface Duo grows closer to release, Microsoft has once more upgraded its Android offering, and this time it could benefit every new ...
Microsoft's xCloud *service* will be powered initially by Xbox One S console server blades, but the hardware will be upgraded in 2021. Microsoft will use its new ...
