SEATTLE: Microsoft has won a five-year deal with soft drink giant Coca-Cola to supply business software, including its Teams chat app and tools for customer service agents. The companies did not disclose the size of the deal but said it will include Dynamics 365, a suite of Microsoft tools that competes directly with Salesforce. Coca-Cola … Read more
The Service NSW government agency for dealing with the public is dumping its Microsoft Windows computers in favor of Google’s lightweight – and relatively inexpensive – ChromeBooks. It has already purchased some 1200 Chrome OS devices to replace Windows computers in Service NSW self-service kiosks. Service NSW has calculated that the Chrome desktops require only … Read more
As a demonstration of Australian innovation, Telstra has inked a world-first partnership with Microsoft, enabling consumers to make voice calls inside Office 365. The new ‘Telstra Calling for Office 365’ is set to launch in mid-2018, and will be bundled into several MS Office programs, with the addition of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams. Just last week, Microsoft revealed 200,000 organisations … Read more
An update for the upcoming Microsoft Office 2019 sees the software will only be able to run on Windows 10. The change was spotted on a Microsoft support post describing the new changes to Window and Office servicing and support. In the post Microsoft defends its decision by saying, “Modern software not only provides new features to … Read more
BLOOMBERG: The actions of Microsoft are being seriously questioned after a 24-year-old intern was allegedly raped by a Microsoft employment, who the company not only carried on employing but allowed to work alongside the woman. Microsoft’s lack of action in the case was revealed as, part of a trove of internal files unsealed on Nov. … Read more
Intel has unveiled a new chip for quantum computing and delivered it to a European research group. The new 17-qubit superconducting chip is the first such device Intel has discussed publicly. It follows the announcement of a US$50 million partnership with Dutch research organisation QuTech two years ago. The design is said to improve reliability … Read more
Remember the good old days when – in contrast to older industries – computing services got steadily cheaper, rather than more expensive? No more, it seems. The bottom, perhaps, has been reached. Microsoft Australia says it will raise the price of its Office 365 Home and Personal subscriptions from October 12. But at this stage … Read more
Amazon Web Services is totally dominating the global infrastructure-as-a-service market, with 44.2 percent of the action, according to a new Gartner survey. AWS is followed at a long distance behind by Microsoft Azure with just seven percent of the market, while in third place with three percent is Jack Ma’s Alibaba, which Gartner notes opened … Read more
Technology stocks including Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet went into free fall on Wall Street, over worries that the top-performing sector is falling out of favour and investors are looking elsewhere for cheaper opportunities. Facebook fell 4.6 percent, on track for its worst day in nearly a year and eliminating over US$20 billion of its market … Read more