Transliteration support on SwiftKey for Tamil speakers is now available. In addition Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, Telugu and Kannada are now available in beta and will be released to the wider Indian market later this year. The announcement coincided with SwiftKey’s first-ever Communications Summit, The Future of Identity, Language … Read more »
Box Inc. and Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership to jointly offer Box cloud content management with Azure to enterprise customers. Box will use Azure as a strategic public cloud platform, and the companies commit to shared go-to-market investments, including initiatives to co-sell Box with Azure. In addition, … Read more »
The Microsoft mindset is a security mindset. Our goal is to ensure customer safety as the security threat landscape continues to grow increasingly more sophisticated and adversaries are more successful at impacting the bottom line. New security features in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update allows us to be more … Read more »
We’re excited to announce that the new classroom experiences in Microsoft Teams are now rolling out to Office 365 for Education customers. For students, Teams helps create safe and engaging classroom environments with rich conversations including text, video and voice, as well as custom class themes, stickers and emojis. Educators … Read more »
As the world’s largest manufacturer of port cranes, Shanghai-based ZPMC has a major role in the global shipping industry. More than 250 ports in 97 countries use the company’s cranes and heavy-duty machinery, constituting ZPMC’s 80 percent share of the global market for port equipment. But the company is doing … Read more »
Microsoft researchers have created an artificial intelligence-based system that learned how to get the maximum score on the addictive 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, using a divide-and-conquer method that could have broad implications for teaching AI agents to do complex tasks that augment human capabilities. The team from Maluuba, a … Read more »
As we embrace an increasingly customer-centric society, we’re seeing customer interaction and conversations extend beyond the sole responsibility of customer service representatives. What I mean by this is that the power to impress and engage customers is going through the ranks of other company employees. My recent online shopping experience … Read more »
Technology is changing the world at exponential speed. What took 70 years to adopt new innovations is now taking seven years (or less), and this timeframe continues to compress further. Imagine this – 90% of the world’s data was created in just the last 24 months alone! … Read more »
As cyberthreats continue to evolve across Asia Pacific, solid cybersecurity intelligence and good cyber-hygiene practices will play an increasing critical role in enabling individuals and organizations to safeguard themselves. Using data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report v21, the following infographic provides you an overview of the top malware threats … Read more »
The National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering today released the results of its new study, “Cybersecurity Risks from Non-Genuine Software”, which found that cybercriminals are compromising computers by embedding malware in pirated software and the online channels that offer them. The study was commissioned by Microsoft. The study, … Read more »