There’s bad news for DStv subscribers planning to buy Microsoft’s new Xbox One video game console, which was launched in South Africa this week. MultiChoice, which owns DStv, has no immediate plans to distribute its electronic programme
Browsing: Mteto Nyati
There is a always a buzz at Microsoft South Africa’s head office in Johannesburg’s leafy Bryanston suburb. This week, the buzz is the appointment of new MD Zoaib Hoosen. Like his predecessor, Mteto Nyati, Hoosen, 49, is a former IBM executive. He joined Microsoft in 2010 as enterprise
As expected, Microsoft has announced that Zoaib Hoosen is taking its South African subsidiary’s leadership position, replacing MD Mteto Nyati who has held this position for the past six years. TechCentral broke the news at the weekend that Hoosen was set to take the reins
Microsoft will this week announce that its South African MD, Mteto Nyati, will be moving on to a new role in the organisation. Nyati will take on the newly created position of head of the Africa region, a well-placed source who says he has knowledge of the move has told TechCentral. Nyati will be
Microsoft on Wednesday launched a television white-spaces spectrum pilot in Limpopo, using unused portions of radio frequency spectrum reserved for broadcasting to deliver Internet access. It hopes the project will encourage further deployments throughout Africa. The pilot follows the launch of similar
It’s all about the cloud for Microsoft in South Africa. No, not the cirrus and cumulus variety — the software giant is shifting its focus to delivering cloud computing-based services to everyone, on every device. And that includes non-Windows platforms, says Microsoft
Microsoft South Africa MD Mteto Nyati and former Google sub-Saharan Africa boss Stafford Masie have been appointed to the board of JSE-listed education and recruitment company AdvTech. Nyati, who previously worked at IBM South Africa, and Masie, who is spearheading
Microsoft is following US rival Google by launching a South African Web portal that offers small and medium enterprises (SMEs) access to free Web domains, hosting and other services. The Microsoft offering, called Biz4Afrika, offers a range of free
Microsoft South Africa is looking for more small, black-owned software development companies to join its equity equivalence-based enterprise development programme. The company first launched the initiative in 2011 and has since signed deals with five local companies
Microsoft South Africa has expanded its BizSpark programme, which supports small software development businesses and entrepreneurs, using money from government’s jobs fund and its own 4Afrika initiative. The company wants to help lead the creation of