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Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion on AI, cloud infrastructure in India

January 08, 2025 9:57 am

The company will also help train 10 million people over the next five years with AI skills in the country.

Microsoft to cut thousands of jobs across divisions: Reports

January 18, 2023 9:04 am

The expected layoffs would be the latest in the US technology sector, where companies including Amazon.com Inc and Meta Platforms Inc have announced retrenchment exercises in response to slowing demand and a worsening global economic outlook.

Microsoft to allow Epic Games, Amazon storefronts on its app store

September 29, 2021 12:34 pm

The move comes as Epic Games and Apple Inc have been locked in a legal dispute since last year when the “Fortnite” creator tried to get around Apple’s 30% fee on some in-app purchases on the App Store by launching its own in-app payment system.

Microsoft opens Windows, but reverts to old competitive playbook

June 25, 2021 12:42 pm

Microsoft Corp’s Windows 11, the latest iteration of its 35-year-old personal computer operating system, boasts loads of new of features meant to position the software giant as the polite child in a classroom full of big bad technology bullies

Atari seeks new cachet with Crypto — and a return to hardware

October 18, 2020 11:01 am

First teased several years ago and expected to ship in November, the Atari VCS is being called a mini-console or a gaming computer.

Microsoft workers demand it drop $480 million US Army contract

February 23, 2019 1:55 pm

Microsoft won a contract in November to supply the Army with at least 2,500 prototypes of augmented reality headsets, which digitally display contextual information in front of a user's eyes.

Exclusive-India presses Microsoft for Windows discount in wake of cyber attacks

July 01, 2017 7:49 pm

Microsoft officials in India have "in principle agreed" to the request for a discount in prices following the recent cyber attacks, Gulshan Rai, India's cyber security coordinator, told Reuters over the phone on Friday. A spokeswoman for Microsoft in India, however, declined to comment on the matter.

Microsoft springs a hologram surprise

January 23, 2015 2:58 am

Microsoft said its wire-free Microsoft HoloLens device will be available around the same time as Windows 10 this autumn.

Microsoft says will give away Windows 10 as free upgrade

January 22, 2015 1:56 am

The operating system is expected on the market this autumn.

Microsoft: Samsung should pay $6.9 million as interest

October 05, 2014 1:20 am

Samsung made royalty payments on time to Microsoft during the first fiscal year after they signed their 2011 agreement, the lawsuit said.

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