Microsoft Is Building A Cloud-Based Phone Company — And Taking On A Public Company It Helped Grow

Posted on September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 by admin

Microsoft spent years building Teams into a strong challenger to Slack. Now it’s using its software suite to take on another cloud success: Twilio. The Redmond-based tech giant announced Tuesday that it had launched Azure Communication Services, a new suite of tools that it says is the “first fully managed communication platform offering from a major cloud provider.” In short, the services will give developers a way to add text messaging, voice and video calling Read more about Microsoft Is Building A Cloud-Based Phone Company — And Taking On A Public Company It Helped Grow[…]

Microsoft Just Released ‘The Best MacBook Pro

Posted on May 7, 2020May 7, 2020 by admin

This week, two key flagship laptops have been launched. Both have been a long time coming, both communities were eager to see what would be delivered, and both have reasons to be cheerful. If you think about the spirit of the two machines, there’s a lot of DNA shared between Microsoft and Apple. But only one feels like a ‘Pro’. Monday 4th May saw Apple launch the update to the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Design wise very little has changed on Read more about Microsoft Just Released ‘The Best MacBook Pro[…]

Emergency Windows 10 Critical Security Update: Microsoft Urges Users To ‘Take Action’

Posted on March 13, 2020March 23, 2020 by admin

Just days after the monthly Patch Tuesday swathe of Windows security updates was released, Microsoft has issued an emergency “out of band” update for Windows 10 users in response to the leaking of a critical vulnerability. Microsoft issues critical out of band security update for Windows 1o users Microsoft has urged Windows 10 users to “take action” as the out of band security update for CVE-2020-0796 is released. A critical vulnerability, named as SMBGhost or EternalDarkness by various Read more about Emergency Windows 10 Critical Security Update: Microsoft Urges Users To ‘Take Action’[…]

Microsoft’s Surface Success Is Chasing Down Apple’s Boring MacBook

Posted on February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 by admin

Microsoft’s latest results show a significant rise in income and revenue. The former is up 38 percent and the later 14 percent year on year. The biggest driver for the Redmond based company was in Personal Computing products. Drilling into the numbers, it’s worth noting the Surface performance. The Surface department delivered close to $2 billion in revenue with a six percent rise year on year. Microsoft’s Surface team is certainly pushing the boundaries to show what can be Read more about Microsoft’s Surface Success Is Chasing Down Apple’s Boring MacBook[…]