Microsoft initially launched Azure Blockchain as a Service in November 2015. Since then, Microsoft has been working with businesses and partners to get their feedback on the missin... More
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Microsoft Builds on Azure Blockchain as a Service with Project Bletchley (ZDNet)
Microsoft’s LinkedIn Acquisition Could Boost its Azure Cloud Platform (GeekWire)
Moving LinkedIn to the Azure cloud, in part or in full, “could be a really important part of this deal,” said Rob Helm, managing vice president of research at Directions on Mic... More
E3: Microsoft Adds 4K, HDR to Xbox One
Microsoft unveiled a new, slimmer version of its Xbox One console that adds Ultra High-Def (UHD) 4K movie viewing capability and high dynamic range (HDR), while also disclosing tha... More
Microsoft Buys LinkedIn For $26.2B (IBT)
LinkedIn, the professional social network, has a new boss. Microsoft purchased LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, the company said Monday. Microsoft is buying the company in a cash deal a... More
Salesforce-Microsoft Office 365 Deal ‘Delivering Real Dividends’ (Investors.com)
Salesforce.com’s new cloud partnership with Amazon.com‘s Amazon Web Services has yet to kick in, but its alliance with Microsoft is “delivering real dividends,” says UBS. M... More
Azure Active Directory ID Preview Gets Some Improvements (Redmond Mag)
Microsoft's Identity Protection preview for its Azure Active Directory service got some new capabilities this week. It was updated with two new conditional access capabilities for ... More
Helpshift Raises $23M From Microsoft, Salesforce for CRM App Chat Tool (TechCrunch)
As more of our day-to-day services make the shift to digital platforms, a startup that has built a customer care tool to help us through some of the pain points in mobile apps has ... More
How Microsoft Hopes To Kick-Start VR Adoption (TWICE)
Microsoft hopes to jump-start the virtual-reality and mixed-reality marketplace by offering the Windows Holographic software used in its HoloLens headset to other companies to make... More
Office 365 Vulnerability Exposed any Federated Account (ThreatPost)
A severe vulnerability in the way Microsoft Office 365 handles federated identities via SAML put an attacker in position to have access to any account and data, including email mes... More
NAB 2016: Microsoft Wants Companies to Take Video Pulse to Measure Engagement (VideoInk)
At the 2016 National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that it is releasing an open preview of Video Pulse, its new digital content rating tool tha... More
Microsoft Offers First Major Endorsement of New EU-U.S. Data Pact (VentureBeat)
Microsoft became on Monday the first major U.S. tech company to say it would transfer users’ information to the United States using a new transatlantic commercial data pact and w... More
Microsoft Is Testing Azure IoT Platform From The Stratosphere (Forbes)
Microsoft is attempting to pull off a rare feat that may be hard for its competitors to emulate. The team at Microsoft Research is deploying a balloon in the stratosphere loaded wi... More
Microsoft will Use Big Data and Bing to Help Your NCAA Bracket Picks Suck Less This Year (VB)
Microsoft thinks it can help you avoid being subjected to a year’s worth of mockery. The company has announced a partnership with the NCAA to use data captured by Bing to help yo... More
Microsoft Unwraps a Big-Data Analytics Platform Based on R (Computerworld)
Microsoft this week took the next step following its acquisition of Revolution Analytics last year by unwrapping an advanced-analytics platform of its own based on the open source ... More
Microsoft Acquires Metanautix with Quest for Intelligent Cloud (BCN)
Modern corporations aspire to data-driven strategies but have far too much information to deal with, according to Metanautix. With so many sources of data, only a fraction can be a... More
Comes With Content Making a Comeback
One year after shutting down its Ovi Music Unlimited streaming service that came bundled with its smartphones, Nokia is trying again. On Tuesday, just ahead of its official unveili... More
Hackers Claim To Have Purloined Pre-Release Digital Copy of ‘Halo: Reach’
Microsoft’s decision to distribute review copies of its hotly anticipated “Halo: Reach” as secure downloads via the Xbox Live Marketplace appears to have had unintended conse... More
Microsoft’s Owen Roberts On Syncing Software And Hardware Supply Chains
The synchronization of videogame hardware and software supply chains has become a unique operational challenge, considering the high costs and long lead times of game development, ... More