General Electric Company through its healthcare IT business and Microsoft announced plans to create a joint venture aimed at helping …
Dubai’s dancers break marathon record using Microsoft Kinect Dance Central 2
A duo of dancers broke the standing record of non-stop video game marathon dancing using Microsoft Kinect’s Dance Central 2 …
Microsoft aims Windows 8 storage at enterprise data centres
Windows 8 includes a storage scheme suitable for business deployment that can treat hundreds of disks as a single logical …
Google, Microsoft each seek search “game changer”: analysts
While Google and Microsoft waged “trench warfare” in the search business this year, both are hoping to come up with …
MSAT partners with Liquidware Labs, Citrix and Microsoft to launch Workspace-as-a-Service solution
Mahindra Satyam, an IT consulting and services provider, today announced the launch of Workspace-as-a-Service (WaaS), which leverages technology from Citrix …
Office 365: Microsoft rolls it out
A new paradigm of unified computing, targeted at small and medium enterprises, is being rolled out across the region. So …
ITC favors Microsoft in Motorola tiff
In another blow to Android, a judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission issued an initial determination that Motorola Mobility …
Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering
Microsoft and HP, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services. The two companies …
Microsoft and HP team up for the cloud
HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft …
Microsoft delays Windows Phone 7 OS launch in China
Microsoft expects its Windows Phone 7 mobile OS to launch in China during the first half of 2012, rather than …
Office 365 a hit, especially with small businesses: Microsoft
Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud collaboration and communication suite for organisations, is selling eight times faster than its predecessor, the Business …
Microsoft ‘signs NDA’ for possible Yahoo acquisition
Microsoft has reportedly signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), alongside several private equity firms, around a potential acquisition of Yahoo. Microsoft, …
HCT and Microsoft to create MENA region’s first Microsoft Learning Center
The first “Microsoft Learning Center” in the Middle East and North Africa(MENA) region will be set up by the Higher …
Brightpoint to distribute Microsoft Windows Phone
Microsoft Middle East and Africa announced its partnership with global wireless distributor Brightpoint Middle East to bring Windows Phone devices …
Microsoft’s IE posts biggest share drop in three years
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) last month lost the largest amount of usage share in three years, a Web metrics firm …
RIM announces BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365
Research In Motion (RIM) announced BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new RIM-hosted online service for …
Microsoft’s YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean
Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed. The hacker replaced …
Microsoft, Compal sign patent deal covering Android, Chrome
Microsoft has signed a patent agreement with Taiwan’s Compal Electronics that provides coverage under its patent portfolio for Compal’s tablets, …
Microsoft quarter shows continued growth
Microsoft kicked off its first quarter of fiscal 2012 with solid growth, reporting a 7% increase in revenue compared to …
“Touch has become ubiquitous”, Somanna Palacanda, Director of Marketing for Surface, Microsoft
Four years into the making and Microsoft?s Surface is beginning to look like the board room device of tomorrow. With …