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One could be forgiven for assuming that a suite of cloud-based applications from Microsoft, such as Office 365, would naturally run better on their latest browser, Microsoft Edge, rather than any other browser. But is that actually true? Let’s take a peek at perspectives from various sources and see if we can arrive at a definite…
Investing is all about the future, and it’s good advice for any long-term investor to look five, ten, twenty years down the road rather than at how to make a buck today. The seven companies listed here are all focused on one area that will be dominating the future of our world: artificial intelligence. Consider…
Martin Tripp has been in the spotlight over the past several weeks for reportedly maligning Tesla Inc. with accusations of misleading investors and putting its Model 3 buyers at risk. Today, his exit from Twitter was cause for much speculation, but his lawyer has posted via the microblogging social media site that Tripp’s account being…
In what could come as a huge relief for Apple and Microsoft, Gartner, a leading market research firm, says that it expects the devices market to grow by 5.3% this year and 5% next year. The global devices market contracted for the last two years, making things extremely difficult for all hardware manufacturers. The research firm…
Why has Alphabet’s Google just invested $1.1 billion in HTC to acquire the company’s phone design and engineering team? Because it is dead serious about the hardware business. With the success of Google Pixel and Pixel XL last year, Google now has the confidence that it can produce Google-branded smartphones that are as good as…
June has come and gone, and it is now time to take a look at the browser market for a snapshot of who’s where. Google still tops the charts at a whopping 59.49 percent market share, with Microsoft struggling on two fronts: a declining Internet Explorer and a not-yet-prolific Microsoft Edge. Google Chrome’s dominance has…
The “USB-C that does it all”, officially known as Thunderbolt 3 from Intel, is going to be made royalty-free by its creator, Intel Corp. Thunderbolt 3 is essentially a high-speed interface that brings four times the bandwidth to what USB-C is currently capable of, is 8x faster than USB 3.0 and provides 4x more bandwidth…
Microsoft announced the launch of new migration resources and tools to help customers who want to take the hybrid route for their cloud deployment. As more and more companies look at hybrid cloud as the path of least resistance to a cloud presence, Microsoft is slowly rolling out more services to address that growing need. Microsoft now…
On February 10, 2017, Microsoft launched Threat Intelligence for Office 365 in Private Preview. Simultaneously, it also launched two other products: Security Score and Advanced Data Governance. Earlier this week, on April 4, 2017, the company made these tools generally available, along with significant updates to Advanced Threat Protection for Windows-based ecosystems. First, some background on the…
The growth of Office 365 has completely changed the fortunes of Microsoft. Everyone knows that Office 365 adoption has been increasing, but nobody knows exactly how much money Microsoft is making from Office, except of the percentage growth figure Microsoft shares with us every quarter. Microsoft’s has three reporting segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent…
Since earlier today there have been images circulated in the media of what is supposedly a Surface Pro 5 photo leak by none other than Microsoft itself. Microsoft’s news website for France contains the following image of what could be the upcoming Surface Pro 5 2-in-1 hybrid device running Windows 10. An entry in a LinkedIn…
Microsoft is clearly back on the growth path, posting $24.1 billion in total revenues, up from $23.8 billion in the year-ago period. At the Q2-2017 earnings call Thursday, the company showed 93% growth in Microsoft Azure, finally breaking its triple-digit-growth streak after five consecutive quarters. The earnings call itself has been covered in great detail…
If Microsoft India’s current performance in cloud infrastructure is a microcosm of the company’s future, than that future looks extremely good for a company that is moving at a mind-numbing speed to get out of the shadows of its Windows-focused past. In the last five years (2012-2016) Microsoft India’s revenue has grown from a mere…
12 Days of Deals is an initiative by Microsoft to celebrate the holiday season with deep discounts on several of their own products and third-party products from well-known electronics makers. Starting Monday, December 5, Microsoft began offering some great deals for holiday shoppers. Today, you can save between $50 and $700 on several laptop and…
Microsoft HoloLens is expensive. Period. At $3000 for the Development Edition and $5000 for the Commercial Edition, it sits pretty high up above its poorer cousins in the virtual reality world. You can buy Facebook’s Oculus Rift VR headset for $599, and even Microsoft itself is working with third-party suppliers for $300 units. Agreed that…
