Microsoft has launched its first 4G device, the Nokia Lumia 638 with Windows Phone 8.1 at a price of Rs 8,299.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
Buying Nokia's gadget business thrusts Microsoft deeper into the hotly contested market
Nokia-Microsoft transfer deal transaction is now subject only to certain customary closing conditions.
Companies now require more than just academic marks; they seek students with internship experience or extra certification courses.
The companies will jointly launch the Windows 8.1 powered 10.1 inch Hewlett-Packard Omni10 tablet with embedded content from Pearson and Microsoft Office in the higher education space.
Hit by plunging sales, Microsoft saw its profit plunge to a little below $3 billion for the third quarter ended March 31, 2009. The software major posted a six per cent fall in revenue at $13.65 billion, the first of its kind since the company went public 23 years ago. In the year-ago period, Microsoft's revenue stood at $14.45 billion, the firm said.
Microsoft Devices Group has unveiled the Nokia 215, its most affordable Internet-ready phone.
As Gates plans his transition, Ray Ozzie (founder of Lotus Notes and Groove Virtual Office) has assumed the position of chief software architect and Craig Mundie has taken the new title of chief research and strategy officer.
The estimated retail price for Windows Vista Home basic edition is now at Rs 4,000 while Windows Vista home premium is available at Rs 5,300 and Windows Vista ultimate at Rs 11,500, the company said.Traditionally, most customers buy the windows operating system as a part of a new PC purchase, it said. However, with the boom in the Indian retail segment and an increasing inclination to buy original software, there is a growing uptake for retails packs.
Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google's search engine
The device is being labelled as the phone for 'selfies and skype'.
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Software giant Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, will be available in the market by Christmas 2009, the company's chief executive officer Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd and Microsoft were selected as strategic partners by Sino-India Cooperative Office of China to set up a software joint venture company for IT outsourcing services and solutions to both global and domestic market.
He replaces Mark Pincus, the founder of the company.
Hyderabad-based JP Mobile, provider of enterprise mobile messaging and security software, on Thursday announced its partnership with Microsoft to expand the capabilities and service offerings of hosted exchange service providers.
An initiative of Nandan Nilekani's EkStep Foundation, people+ai on Tuesday unveiled its vision for the future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India, dubbed 'Adbhut India' (Amazing India). It aims to harness AI as a powerful tool to enhance the lives of all Indians. The event marked the rollout of several initiatives by people+ai that are focused on discovering, demonstrating, and disseminating population-scale AI use cases for India.
The Redmond-based company had announced in January that it would axe 5,000 jobs globally amid the ongoing slowdown.
Unilever completed one of the largest cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry, with a little help from Accenture and Microsoft, and has become a cloud-only enterprise. Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture, Avanade, worked with Unilever to deliver the transformation in 18 months with minimal disruption to business operations, Accenture said in a release. The release added that it has not only helped ensure and optimise operations for Unilever but also provides a platform to drive innovation and growth.
Gates says he wants to spend more time on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Companies push out warnings to PCs infected with Bamital.
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Nineteen per cent of global fund managers remain bullish on India, suggests the latest BofA Asia Fund Manager Survey (FMS). A total of 249 panelists with $656 billion worth of assets under management (AUM) participated in the survey between February 2 and 8, BofA said. Two hundred and nine participants with $568 billion AUM responded to the global FMS questions, while 145 participants with $331 billion in AUM responded to the regional fund manager survey (FMS) questions, BofA said.
Microsoft will extend cash grant of $1,08,000 each to MS Swaminathan Research Foundation and Datamation Foundation Charitable Trust for setting up community technology learning centres in India.
The government asked digital platforms to provide technical and business process solutions to prevent and weed out misinformation that can potentially harm society and democracy, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said.
Microsoft had began offering a temporary patch for the problem on September 19.
He will look at early stage software, Internet, and tech companies.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its entry into next generation video gaming and entertainment system by showcasing Xbox 360, to be launched later this year and will set up a retail network for its distribution across seven cities.
The writing has been on the wall for some time. Exodus of senior leadership and growth behind its peers are reasons that have prompted Thierry Delaporte, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Wipro to resign, analysts said. Delaporte, Wipro's seventh CEO, also resigned without completing his five-year term, like his predecessor Abidali Neemuchwala decided to end his tenure prematurely in 2020. Phil Fersht, HFS Research CEO and chief analyst believes the change in leadership was at least six months overdue.
The vulnerability affects customers using Office 2003 and Office 2007 as well as those running Office 2010 on Windows XP and Server 2003.
This building, the third in the campus at Gachibowli on the outskirts of the city, has been constructed to meet global quality standards and can house more than 2000 employees, Microsoft officials said.
The estimated retail prices of Microsoft Office XP business suite in India would be lesser now by about 15 per cent following the company's decision to extend the price reductions for these products to Asia-Pacific countries.
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Chitra Sood, staffing director at Microsoft India Development Centre, talks about opportunities available to young graduates and interns at MSIDC.
Congress is keen to deploy Microsoft display technologies that enable projection into any surface including walls to interact with rural masses from its headquarters in Delhi, a top official of the software giant's Indian entity said on Thursday.
