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Microsoft has just launched a virtual data centre tour, showcasing the company’s approach to sustainable operations. The virtual tour allows users to navigate through various rooms in the data centre, with click-throughs to educational tools such as infographics and 3D models. According to Noelle Walsh, CVP of Cloud Operations &

Microsoft Corp bought Nuance Communications yesterday for $US19.7 Billion , in a move that accelerates the company’s cloud strategy for healthcare and increases its total addressable market in the sector to $500 million.  The deal is the result of several years of close cooperation where the companies have worked together

As flexibility and remote working requirements have increased due to COVID, so too has our reliance on Cloud technology.  Microsoft Cloud specialist Rapid Circle has improved its offering to Australian enterprise customers through the acquisition of Insync Technology, a specialist Microsoft modern workplace partner. According to Stewart Bairstow, Australian CEO

Flight Centre has signed a five year deal with Microsoft to transition over to its cloud and software, vowing to continue its digital transformation in the face of a huge downturn in the travel market. Microsoft’s Azure and 365 will now be Flight Centre’s clouds of choice, including migrating several

Bosch and Microsoft are working together to make adding new safety features and digital services to a car as simple as updating a phone.  Under a new partnership, the pair will create a new software platform connecting Microsoft’s Azure cloud with Bosch’s software modules to be used in over the

Microsoft today called on the Biden administration to “copy” Australia’s proposal for forcing Google and Facebook to pay news publishers for content that appears on their platforms, describing the approach as one “cure” to funding journalism and protecting democracy. The tech giant last week waded into the local debate by

Microsoft is making a big play in the employee management market, today revealing new software to manage and engage remote workforces. Known as Microsoft Viva, the platform integrates other Microsoft services and businesses’ content into a central place. The tech giant has positioned Viva as a better way for organisations

Microsoft has backed Australia’s controversial News Media Bargaining Code, offering to fill the void left by Google if it follows through on its threat to leave the local market because of the Code. Today, Microsoft offered to allow Australian small businesses to transfer their advertising to its search product, Bing,

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week spoke directly with Australian Cabinet Ministers about the government’s plan to make the tech giant pay for news. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, also spoke with Microsoft’s CEO about its search product amid Google’s threat to pull out of the local market

Microsoft is offering its partners a hefty discount on leadership programs for women in a bid to improve diversity in the local tech sector.  Microsoft Australia has partnered with Women Rising, a career and leadership coaching program for women, to offer the course to internal employees and those of its