Seattle: Microsoft Corp. said a computer-hacking group that has previously targeted government agencies attacked its Windows software and Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash product.

The company will release a security patch for its operating system on 8 November, Windows chief Terry Myerson said Tuesday in a blog post on Microsoft’s website.

Microsoft, a long time back, wanted to buy ‘itsy-bitsy’ Facebook for $24 billion. In an interview with CNBC, former Microsoft CEO informed that he had approached Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and also said that he never wanted to buy Twitter. Recalling that Zuckerberg had ‘said no’ and that he ‘respects it since you have to be a willing seller’.

US tech giant Microsoft has set up a cybersecurity engagement centre (CSEC) in the Delhi-NCR region that will help it work with partners in identifying and responding to cyber threats in the country.

The India centre, which is the seventh such facility for the company globally, will function as a satellite to Microsoft's Redmond Digital Crimes Unit (DCU).

In a major breakthrough in speech recognition, researchers at Microsoft claim to have developed the first technology that recognises the words in a conversation as well as humans do.

A team of researchers and engineers in Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research created a speech recognition system that makes the same or fewer errors than professional transcriptionists.

NEW DELHI: Global consultancy PwC India has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft India to empower India's digital transformation, a statement said here on Thursday.

The statement said the alliance will help the industry harness some of the core competencies of both the firms.

Six days after Microsoft received reports of a cumulative update that failed to install on some computers, the company has now released a "fix-it" tool.

"The update which tries to install and then rolls back repeatedly, affects PCs that previously ran a build delivered through the Windows Insider Programme," technology website, zdnet.com, reported on Ocotber 6.

US tech giant Microsoft is discontinuing its wearable fitness tracker called “Band” and the company has no plans to release “Band 3”.

“The Band 2 has been wiped completely from Microsoft’s online store and is no longer available from Best Buy either,” technology website The Verge reported on Tuesday.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it was reorganising part of the company to better position itself as one of the significant players in the emerging field of artificial intelligence.

The company has created a new organisation that combines its research group, one of the largest in the technology industry, and a number of products that rely on artificial intelligence, including its Bing search engine and Cortana virtual assistant. The new artificial intelligence and research group at Microsoft will have more than 5,000 employees.

India-born Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella today said his company is not pursuing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to beat humans at games but to empower people and organisations "to solve the most pressing problems" of society and economy to make the world a better place.

As the keynote speaker at the opening day of 'Microsoft's Ignite' conference, he addressed a packed crowd of over 23,000 attendees, primarily IT professionals.

Seattle: There are hundreds of new cancer drugs in development and new research published minute to minute, helping doctors treat patients with personalized combinations that target the specific building blocks of their disease. The problem is there’s too much to read and too many drug combinations for doctors to choose the best option every time.

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