Despite claims by a company executive that Microsoft tech support has the tools to help users recover the files deleted by the “Windows 10 October 2018” update, users have not yet been able to avail the facilities, a media report said. Microsoft on Saturday paused the roll-out of the software update after several users complained that installing the update was wiping off their data.

No sooner had technology giant Microsoft made its latest “Windows 10 October 2018” update available for download on Tuesday than the users began complaining of sudden deletion of documents from their systems. Microsoft users who had installed the Windows 10 October 2018 update complained that the update feature has wiped out their user profiles including documents and photos.

Refreshing its Surface laptop line-up, Microsoft has announced four new products — Surface Pro 6, Surface Studio 2, Surface Laptop 2 and first-ever Surface Headphones — along with new innovations in Windows and Office 365.

At an event in New York on Tuesday, Microsoft also announced that the Windows 10 October 2018 update has arrived for its users.

Microsoft has decided to put an end to “Skype 7.0 — Classic” version in November and will focus on improving “Skype 8” with better features based on user feedbacks.

“Support for ‘Skype versions 7’, and below will end on November 1, 2018 on desktop devices and November 15, 2018 on mobile and tablet devices,” the company wrote in a blog post late on Thursday.

Frankfurt: Business software companies SAP, Microsoft and Adobe said on Monday they were forming a data alliance that will make it easier for clients running their applications to get a better overview of the customer.

The partners announced the Open Data Initiative at a Microsoft conference in Orlando, Florida, saying it would help break down information silos that make it hard for businesses to make the most of their customer base.

Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organisations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday.

Microsoft has partnered SRL Diagnostics, one of India’s leading pathology labs, to train its artificial intelligence (AI) system in detecting cancer.

The tech giant plans to teach its AI to find the traits of cancerous cells that trained pathologists do manually by looking at a slice of the patient’s tissue on a glass slide. SRL’s bank of more than one million such slides from past diagnosis will be used as the training material for the AI.

To help researchers and academia build Indian language speech recognition for all applications where speech is used, Microsoft India on Thursday launched its Indian language “Speech Corpus”, offering speech training and test data for Telugu, Tamil and Gujarati. This is the largest publicly available Indian language speech dataset which includes audio and corresponding transcripts, Microsoft said in a statement.

Microsoft has announced a refreshed “Windows 10 October 2018 Update” that will have new features and enhancements for over 700 million devices running Windows 10. The announcement came at the ongoing IFA 2018 technology event in Berlin, Germany.

Microsoft India and Apollo Hospitals have partnered to build an artificial intelligence-powered platform, designed to predict the risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the Indian population. Under the collaboration, which is part of Microsoft’s AI Network for Healthcare initiative, the two entities have launched an AI-powered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score API (application program interface)

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