Microsoft’s cloud-fuelled turnaround persisted in the fiscal fourth quarter, when sales and profit got a boost from customers signing up for more Internet-based storage, processing and Office productivity software.
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Clad in jeans and a gray sweatshirt, Amy Hood stands before a room of 140 Microsoft recruits. The feeling in the air is a bit like the first day of school, and new hires are taking selfies outside in front of a big Microsoft logo.
Microsoft is going for the low-end of the personal computing market with a smaller, cheaper Surface Go tablet that takes on Apple’s cheapest iPads. The Surface Go has a 10-inch screen, about the same size as the
In the battle for the first company to reach and sustain US$1-trillion in stock market value, don’t count out a come-from-behind victory. Apple has had a lock on its spot as the world’s most valuable public
On TalkCentral this week, Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg chat about the week’s big technology news – with a South African flavour. On the menu, a new submarine cable system – the first to cross
It’s becoming standard practice for US technology giants to follow the letter of European rulings and regulations without really changing their behaviour. Most recently, Facebook and Google have exhibited just a
Microsoft agreed to pay US$7.50-billion for GitHub earlier in June, but it wasn’t the only interested party. Google was in the running too, according to Diane Greene, head of the company’s cloud arm. “I wouldn’t
The world’s largest cloud computing provider, Amazon Web Services, has opened its first physical point of presence in South Africa. The company, which is owned by online retail giant Amazon.com, said
JSE-listed technology group Altron has acquired Microsoft partner iS Partners in a deal worth R225m. The acquisition is subject to Competition Commission approval. Altron CEO Mteto Nyati said the deal gives
Xbox previewed a flurry of new titles and deals with studios as the videogaming division of Microsoft looks to compete more intensely with Sony’s PlayStation and a resurgent Nintendo. The new products, announced on Sunday