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Microsoft has announced a free one-to-one consultation service for small businesses, including retailers, nonprofits, education institutions, and more. This new online consultation service is quite similar to the sales support plan introduced back in 2020, and it aims to assist SMBs and education customers with their digital transformation efforts. The Redmond giant explained in its…

Microsoft is planning to make some changes to the way it licenses its products to customers who wish to use them on rival cloud platforms. According to a new report from Bloomberg, several customers have filed complaints against Microsoft’s policies regarding running Windows and Office on other cloud-computing services such as Google Cloud Platform or…

Microsoft is reportedly planning to acquire a US-based cyber security company Mandiant. According to a new report from Bloomberg, this new acquisition will help the Redmond giant to beef up its portfolio of security offerings to protect its customers from cybersecurity threats and data breaches. For those unfamiliar, Mandiant is a cybersecurity research firm that…

Ignite Hero The second installment of Microsoft Ignite November 2021 kicks off today, November 2nd, at 4.15 CET with the opening keynote by Satya Nadella. The conference runs through to November 4th. Many of the sessions can be watched on-demand after the event but not all of them. In this article, I’m going to cut…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly and annual earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

In the world of public companies, there are major milestones like going public and stock price splits. For Microsoft, there is going public, hitting a valuation of 1 trillion dollars and today, hitting 2 trillion dollars. Microsoft’s growth during 2020 was driven by a massive movement to remote work for nearly every major corporation. The…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

Keeping employees engaged is a critical component to the long-term success of the individual but with resources often scattered to various ends of your intranet, finding content can be challenging. Microsoft is looking to tackle this problem with its new Employee Experience Platform or EXP for short. Microsoft is calling the new offering Viva and…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

Microsoft has announced today that it has nominated two new individuals to join its board of directors, Sandra Peterson and Padmasree Warrior.