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Microsoft Teams' Collaborative notes feature now in public preview

According to the company, Collaborative notes are Loop components, which stay in sync across all the places they have been shared like Outlook, Teams chat, the Loop app, Word for the web, Whiteboard

Microsoft no longer making new Xbox One games, moves on to 'Gen 9'

Microsoft is no longer making new games for Xbox One consoles

Top headlines: RBI on Rs 500 notes report, India to have 40% of workforce

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June disruptions to Outlook, cloud platform were cyberattacks: Microsoft

In early June, sporadic but serious service disruptions plagued Microsoft's flagship office suite including the Outlook email and OneDrive file-sharing apps and cloud computing platform. A shadowy hacktivist group claimed responsibility, saying it flooded the sites with junk traffic in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by a murky upstart were indeed to blame. But the software giant has offered few details and would not comment on the attacks' magnitude. It would not say how many customers were affected or describe the attackers, who it has named Storm-1359. A group that calls itself Anonymous Sudan claimed responsibility on its Telegram social media channel at the time. Some security researchers believe the group to be Russian. Microsoft's explanation in a blog post Friday evening followed a request by The Associated Press two days earlier. Slim on details, the post said the attacks temporari

Bill Gates meets President Xi Jinping on China visit after 3 years

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping just days after a visit to Beijing by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The state broadcaster CCTV showed Xi saying he was happy to see Gates, who he called an old friend, after three years without meeting during the pandemic. I believe that the foundation of Sino-US relations lies in the people, Xi said to Gates. Under the current world situation, we can carry out various activities that benefit our two countries, the people of our countries, and the entire human race. Gates told Xi he was very honoured to meet with Xi. The visits by leading foreign business people have coincided with efforts by the ruling Communist Party to revive investor interest in China's slowing economy. Apple CEO Tim Cook visited China in March. Tensions between the US and China have festered in recent years, but recently the two sides have held talks on trade and other issues. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to arrive in China o

HCLTech, Microsoft expand partnership for adoption of generative AI

HCLTech is committed to developing skills in AI across the entire business and is working with Microsoft to offer a comprehensive skills development programme

Microsoft rushed Bing AI co-pilot despite warnings from OpenAI: Report

A news report in the Wall Street Journal alleges tensions between the two companies with regard to features developed based on AI

Microsoft's planned Activision Blizzard merger temporarily blocked by judge

Microsoft's planned USD 69 billion purchase of video game company Activision Blizzard was blocked by a federal judge Tuesday, giving more time for an antitrust review of the deal. U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco ruled in support of a temporary restraining order sought by the Federal Trade Commission that will stop Microsoft from closing the deal. In a court filing Monday, the commission had sought both a restraining order and injunction to stop Microsoft's acquisition of the California company behind hit games such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush Saga. Microsoft, maker of the Xbox game system, has spent months trying to win worldwide approval for the merger. While a number of countries have approved the acquisition, regulators for two important economies the U.S. and the U.K. have taken action to stop it, arguing it could suppress competition in the video game market. The judge said her order temporarily blocking the deal is necessa

Microsoft adds AI capabilities, enhances translation features to Skype

In the latest update to Skype, Microsoft has incorporated AI capabilities and enhanced translation features into the platform

Microsoft's media literacy program aims to tackle online misinformation

People are hungry for accurate and reliable information online and may just need help to find it, according to a new media literacy project launched by Microsoft. The tech company worked with the Trust Project, a nonprofit consortium of news organisations, to create advertisements directing internet users to a list of eight trust indicators that can be used to assess a website's credibility. The indicators include things like the clear labeling of opinion pieces, a code of practices and the attribution of sources. Most people who saw the list expressed greater confidence in their own ability to find reliable news while ferreting out misinformation a promising finding that suggests media literacy can be a cheap and scalable solution to the daunting problem of online misinformation. This was a bit of an experiment for us, said Ginny Badanes, senior director of Microsoft's Democracy Forward Initiative, a unit at the company that focuses on efforts to strengthen democracy and online

US FTC files injunction to halt Microsoft's Activision deal: Report

The US FTC has applied for a "temporary restraining order" and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard before the deal's July 18 deadline, media reported

Windows 11 gets new app privacy settings, glanceable VPN feature & more

Microsoft has introduced new security features for Windows 11, including new app privacy settings and glanceable VPN

BetterPlace partners Microsoft to empower frontline workers across Asia

The collaboration will also include the development of a mobile-first upskilling programme, specifically designed for frontline workers

Wipro launches innovation experience for financial services with Microsoft

Microsoft and Wipro will develop new solutions to help financial services clients accelerate growth and deepen client relationships

Microsoft launches new update of Edge to includes support for Workspaces

The tech giant had said at its Build 2023 conference last month that Workspaces would gradually become available over the coming months

Microsoft Outlook faces second outage in 24 hours, users unable to log in

Some users have even shared the update on Twitter, questioning if Outlook is down again

Microsoft to pay $20 mn to settle US charges of 'illegal' children's data

Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console. The agency charged that Microsoft gathered the data without notifying parents or obtaining their consent, and that it also illegally held onto the data. Those actions violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, the FTC stated. In a blog post, Microsoft corporate vice president for Xbox Dave McCarthy outlined additional steps the company is now taking to improve its age verification systems and to ensure that parents are involved in the creation of child accounts for the service. These mostly concern efforts to improve age verification technology and to educate children and parents about privacy issues. McCarthy also said the company had identified and fixed a technical glitch that failed to delete child accounts in cases where the account creation process never finished. Microsof

Microsoft 365 down for more than 15,000 online users, 3rd outage this year

Microsoft services have faced at least three outages since the beginning of the year

Microsoft Windows 11 gets new phone photos feature in File Explorer

Meanwhile, Microsoft has announced that it will no longer support its virtual assistant Cortana in Windows as a standalone app, starting in late 2023

Microsoft to end support for its virtual assistant 'Cortana' on Windows

"Instead of clicking the Cortana icon and launching the app to begin using voice, now you can use voice and satisfy your productivity needs through different tools," it said