Azure Sphere microcontroller out in February
Branding out now
Microsoft officials said the company's Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020.
Amazon snubbed as Microsoft is the last Jedi standing
US defense contract goes to Vole
The US government has snubbed Amazon and awarded a massive $10 billion cloud contract to Microsoft, the Department of Defense has confirmed.
Microsoft's cloud continues to coin in cash
$33.1 billion in revenue
Microsoft reported $33.1 billion in revenue for its fiscal 2020 first quarter, representing a 14 percent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7 billion, up 21 per cent.
Microsoft in trouble with EU GDPR law
Many Volish contracts questioned
Microsoft's contracts with European Union institutions do not fully comply with the law, the EU’s data watchdog has growled.
Microsoft pushes secure core PCs
Available from Dell, Dynabook, HP, Lenovo, Panasonic, and Surface
Microsoft announced a new initiative to combat threats specifically targeted at the firmware level and data stored in memory – secured-core PCs.
SAP cuddles up with Microsoft
Jennifer Morgan's glorious three-year embrace
The maker of expensive esoteric business software, which no one is sure what it does but CIOs believe is the bee's knees, SAP, has inked a three-year pact with the software king of the world Microsoft to help its large enterprise customers move their business processes into the cloud.
Surface Pro X is the tweaked Snapdragon 8CX
Tuned up and rebranded
A Microsoft hardware event revealed the latest Intel, ARM and AMD based products and Surface Pro X based on ARM caught a lot of attentio. To set things straight, the Microsoft SQ1 is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8CX.
Microsoft's Edge stops distributing E
Eezer Goode no longer
Software King of the world Microsoft appears to have stopped taking the E out of its users and is replacing its Edge logo.
Microsoft wants to connect 40 million people to the net
These are not those who can’t connect after the last update
Software King of the world Microsoft's 2017 Airband Initiative wants to connect 40 million people around the globe to the internet by 2022.
Linus is not worried about Microsoft take over
How I quit worrying and learnt to love the Vole
While other open sorcerers are worried about Microsoft's influence on their community, IT's Mr Sweary Linus Torvalds is not too concerned.