06

May

Microsoft Teams proving to be an essential tool to NHS doctors

NHS staff at a major hospital in Southampton are managing the surge in people arriving with Coronavirus symptoms by using technology to quickly find out who has the virus and…

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05

May

Microsoft announced $1 billion digital investment plan in Poland

Microsoft has today announced a $1 billion digital investment plan in Poland, which includes its first data centre in the region providing cloud services to business and government. The project…

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30

Apr

Remote work helps Microsoft soften pandemic blow

Microsoft posted a sharp rise in its profits in the latest quarter, despite the coronavirus pandemic. Surpassing Wall Street expectations, the US technology giant reported a fiscal third-quarter profit of…

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23

Apr

UNICEF and Microsoft launch global learning platform to help address COVID-19 education crisis

UNICEF and Microsoft Corp. announced the expansion of a global learning platform to help children and youth affected by COVID-19 continue their education at home. The Learning Passport started off…

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22

Apr

Microsoft commits patents to help fight COVID-19

Microsoft is committing to the Open COVID Pledge by making its patents available free of charge for use in efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and minimize the impact of…

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16

Apr

Microsoft making AccountGuard threat notification service available free to healthcare providers worldwide

Tom Burt - Corporate Vice President, Customer Security & Trust of Microsoft announced that Microsoft is making its  AccountGuard threat notification service available at no cost to healthcare providers on…

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30

Mar

Microsoft joins effort make ventilators for the NHS

A consortium of major UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors has come together to produce medical ventilators for the NHS. Companies including…

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30

Mar

SEO Expert GainChanger Joins Microsoft’s Growing Start-Up Program

  SEO remains a difficult science and too expensive or close to impossible to understand how each variable and ranking factor contribute in this highly dynamic environment. Once its mechanisms…

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27

Mar

Microsoft says Teams communication app has reached 44 million daily users

Microsoft’s Teams service for calling and chatting with colleagues has over 44 million daily active users, up from 20 million in November, the company said on Thursday. The disclosure puts…

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26

Mar

Cybersecurity experts tackle coronavirus-related hacking

An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus. Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat…

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25

Mar

Minecraft launches free educational content for children

Minecraft has released a series of free educational sessions that parents can download to help children learn at home. Minecraft Marketplace, which features items and add-ons that people can use…

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23

Mar

Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft expand partnership to decode COVID-19

Adaptive Biotechnologies Corpand Microsoft Corp. announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19. Finding the relevant immune response signature…

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16

Mar

Microsoft launches a coronavirus tracker dashboard on Bing

Microsoft rolled out a new live dashboard to track the COVID-19 outbreak. The company said its aggregating data for the dashboard from trusted sources like the World Health Organization (WHO), the…

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14

Mar

Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities. He says he wants to focus on global health and development, education…

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12

Mar

Microsoft issues app to let staff communicate during a crisis

Microsoft has released an app that allows companies to collaborate more effectively during a crisis. Built by a team of developers in just 48 hours, the Power Apps template has…

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11

Mar

Microsoft helps in new action to disrupt world’s largest online criminal network

Microsoft and partners across 35 countries took coordinated legal and technical steps to disrupt one of the world’s most prolific botnets, called Necurs, which has infected more than nine million…

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10

Mar

MIC Hosted Over 200 Technology Start-Ups Over Past 7 Years

Microsoft Innovation Centre Celebrates Seven Years of Innovation Start-ups have been amongst the main stakeholders of the Microsoft Innovation Centre since it opened its doors in February 2013. Hosting and…

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08

Mar

Microsoft Surface helps authors in the UK write and release short story for kids

Microsoft has teamed up with children’s authors in the UK, Greg James and Chris Smith, to release a digital short story on YouTube to celebrate World Book Day. The free…

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20

Feb

The new Microsoft Office app now generally available for Android and iOS

A few months ago, Microsoft introduced a new mobile app called Office—a whole new experience designed to be the go-to app for getting work done on a mobile device. It…

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14

Feb

Angelina Jolie teams up with Microsoft Education and the BBC to give children high-quality journalism

Angelina Jolie has co-produced a weekly show, My World, with Microsoft Education and BBC World Service to deliver impartial and factual stories to children across the world. The Oscar-winning actress…

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10

Feb

Microsoft’s latest ‘AI for Good’ cohort aims to make the world a better place

Companies that aim to transform how we recycle, make websites more accessible for people who are Deaf, and give the public a greater say in how their towns change have…

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05

Feb

Xbox helps launch a new initiative to improve equality, diversity and inclusivity in the video games industry

Xbox has helped to launch a new initiative to improve equality, diversity and inclusivity in the video games industry. The #RaiseTheGame pledge is being led by Ukie, the trade body…

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27

Jan

Microsoft’s venture fund M12 opens European office

Microsoft’s corporate venture fund M12 has opened its new office in Europe and invested in SuperAwesome, a UK company that helps create safer places for children when they use the…

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23

Jan

Microsoft is helping teachers in the UK train without having to travel

Schools in the UK have been given access to free digital tools that improve teacher training and help students learn. Ahead of the BETT conference in London next week, Microsoft…

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22

Jan

Microsoft Announces $1 Billion Climate Innovation Fund, Microsoft to be carbon negative by 2030

Microsoft has just announced an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove Microsoft’s carbon footprint. Microsoft this week launched an initiative to use its technology to…

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20

Jan

Microsoft and Danone commit to Artificial Intelligence for a responsible food industry

Danone and Microsoft have partnered in an artificial intelligence (AI) program dubbed ‘AI Factory For AgriFood’ that seeks to support sustainable food and regenerative agriculture in France. The AI Factory…

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17

Jan

Microsoft pledges to be ‘carbon negative’ within ten years

Microsoft is making a series of compelling commitments to reduce and ultimately reverse the damage that its business is causing to the environment. The company is already working to compensate…

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16

Jan

Lloyds Banking Group and Microsoft form partnership to accelerate bank’s digital transformation strategy

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft focused on accelerating LBG’s digital transformation. As part of the LBG’s commitment to invest £3 billion in technology, the…

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12

Jan

New AI technique co-hosted by Microsoft and the British Home Office to block online child grooming launched

A new technique which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and block child grooming conversations online has been launched by the Home Office and Microsoft in Seattle. The technique, which…

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10

Jan

Microsoft forms global strategic partnership with customer data science experts to transform retail sector

Microsoft has formed a global strategic partnership with dunnhumby, the leader in customer data science, in a move that could transform the $5.9 trillion retail sector. As part of the…

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09

Jan

Sea of Thieves notches up 10 million players

More than 10 million people have played Sea of Thieves since its launch, the game’s creator has revealed. To mark reaching the impressive milestone, Rare Studios is giving fans of…

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09

Jan

Microsoft shares new technique to address online grooming of children for sexual purposes

Online child exploitation is a horrific crime that requires a whole-of-society approach. Microsoft has a long-standing commitment to child online protection. First and foremost, as a technology company, we have…

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04

Jan

Microsoft research shows teens and adults hope for more civil online discourse in new decade

It’s a new year and a new decade, and teens and adults around the world hope that respect, safety and freedom will define online life in the 2020s, new Microsoft…

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31

Dec

Microsoft takes control of 50 websites linked to North Korean linked hacking group

Microsoft said on Monday it won a court order that allowed the tech giant to take control of 50 websites that a North Korea-linked hacking group was using to carry…

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30

Dec

Ericsson and Microsoft team up for the next generation of connected cars

  Ericsson and Microsoft are bringing their connected vehicle expertise together. Ericsson is building its Connected Vehicle Cloud on top of the Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform that is running on…

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18

Dec

Microsoft cooperated with three British schoolgirls to create a tool to tackle bullying and loneliness

Three schoolgirls from the UK have worked with Microsoft to create an app that tackles bullying and loneliness. Twelve-year-old Kaja and 13-year-olds Eylem and Wiktoria, from Gladesmore Community School in…

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16

Dec

4 Blockchain Startups Awarded $100K In Start-Up Funding Each

AE Ventures, one of the recently signed new partners of the Microsoft Innovation Centre has announced Assetify, Cannomy, King Football and Smart Credit as the four blockchain start-ups that have…

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16

Dec

NTT and Microsoft form a strategic alliance to enable new digital solutions

NTT Corporation (NTT) and Microsoft Corp. announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at delivering secure and reliable solutions that help enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformations. NTT is a global…

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11

Dec

Microsoft launches Ambizione Italia for a culture of inclusion

  Making a system to make Italy a more inclusive country accessible to people with disabilities, exploiting new technologies such as artificial intelligence to allow everyone to best express their…

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07

Dec

KPMG to invest US$5 billion in digital strategy and expand Microsoft alliance to accelerate professional services transformation

KPMG and Microsoft Corp. are strengthening their global relationship through a five-year agreement to accelerate digital transformation for KPMG member firms and mutual clients. As part of its announcement to…

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05

Dec

Microsoft’s Digigirlz Programme Attracts 90 Female Students to MIC

Malta remains at par with general global trends where only around 6% of female students choose a career in IT-related subjects. “The lack of disposition towards introducing technology and exposing…

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28

Nov

Communication is a real problem for UK workers and their companies, Microsoft research reveals

Small and medium-sized businesses across the UK are seeing a disconnect between leaders and employers, fostered by a culture of poor communication, a new survey has revealed. More than a…

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28

Nov

New CEO for Microsoft Greece, Cyprus & Malta

Following a short transitional period, Mr. Theodosis Michalopoulos is officially assuming the position of CEO for Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta. Mr. Michalopoulos boasts a long and successful career in…

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23

Nov

Seventeenth century French artefact arrives in Seattle for an immersive exhibition, powered by Microsoft

Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the opening of a new exhibit, “Mont-Saint-Michel: Digital Perspectives on the Model,” which features a unique blend…

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22

Nov

Allianz partners with Microsoft to digitally transform the insurance industry

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15

Nov

X019: Xbox kicks off UK gaming event with Project xCloud and Xbox Game Pass news

Xbox has kicked off its X019 gaming event in London with a raft of announcements that will help gamers play the latest titles whenever and wherever they want. Project xCloud,…

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14

Nov

Bringing the Microsoft Experience To Gozo

Microsoft Partners J2 Group, an IT solutions and software company based in Malta which knows its origins in Gozo, will be fronting Microsoft’s new presence in Gozo into what is…

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09

Nov

UK schools join Microsoft programme that uses tech to help students learn

Schools and colleges from across the UK have been added to Microsoft’s showcase teaching programme, which uses technology to help students learn. Four new colleges and 13 new schools will…

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06

Nov

Microsoft launches new phone system for businesses in the UK

A new phone system for businesses that brings together calling, chat, meetings, calendars and email has been launched in the UK by Microsoft. Microsoft 365 Business Voice is designed as…

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01

Nov

Ninja Theory is using gaming to help people with mental health issues

A Microsoft studio is launching a project to use video games, technology and clinical neuroscience to help people with mental health conditions and promote well-being. Ninja Theory, which was widely…

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30

Oct

The new Microsoft Project rolls out to customers worldwide

Microsoft on Wednesday announced a major step toward achieving the vision of increased productivity using the power of the cloud to help people and organizations achieve more, with the general…

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26

Oct

Microsoft wins Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract

Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favourite Amazon.com Inc. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract…

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24

Oct

Microsoft beats profit estimates

Microsoft Corp beat analysts’ quarterly profit estimates, but growth in its Azure cloud computing platform slowed from a year earlier. The software maker's net income rose to $10.68 billion, or…

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23

Oct

New Surface devices are ‘best of Microsoft coming together’

Microsoft’s broadest Surface lineup was revealed earlier this month, with new devices including the Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7, Surface Pro X as well as new Surface Earbuds announced…

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21

Oct

Harvest Technology is the first new partner of the Microsoft Innovation Centre

An agreement with Microsoft was signed between Microsoft Malta and Harvest Technology which incorporates PTL Limited and APCO Systems Limited, through which Harvest will be contributing expertise, knowledge and talent…

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20

Oct

UK government backs Microsoft and University of Cambridge mission to build better AI

The UK government is backing a multi-million-pound initiative to help researchers improve artificial intelligence so it can be used more effectively in key areas such as healthcare. The research program,…

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16

Oct

Natuzzi using Microsoft HoloLens to give customers in London a glimpse of the future of retail

Shoppers in the UK will be able to use cutting-edge mixed-reality technology in one of Natuzzi’s UK stores to see how furniture would look in their home before they buy…

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