GeekWire

JULY 27, 2021

Microsoft’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings report mostly contained good news for the Xbox department. While 2021’s slow release calendar has created a sluggish market for third-party games, Xbox reported continued growth on hardware sales and Xbox Game Pass subscriptions. Xbox Series S (top) and X. Thomas Wilde Photo).

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2024

Enzzo Photo) Building hardware is hard. That’s what a group of longtime investors are betting on with a $3 million seed investment in Enzzo , a new Seattle startup that spun out of Pioneer Square Labs and aims to accelerate hardware development. Enzzo team, from left: Ricardo Ma, Patrick Fiori, Zheng Liu, and Ford Davidson.

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Venture Beast

JULY 27, 2021

Xbox Game Pass is growing for Microsoft along with its Xbox Series X/S hardware. And the company is expecting more coming out of E3. Read More.

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Venture Beast

AUGUST 20, 2020

Microsoft Flight Simulator could encourage a huge increase in spending on PC due to its appeal to affluent gamers who love to buy next hardware. Read More.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 30, 2023

The post Unphishable mobile MFA through hardware keys appeared first on TechRepublic. With Azure AD and FIDO security keys, you can make MFA more secure and avoid having to provision certificates on everyone’s phones.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Microsoft announced that it will host its next Surface event on Wednesday, September 22, where the company is expected to unveil new hardware to showcase the upcoming Windows 11 operating system.

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TechSpot

JUNE 10, 2021

With the upcoming Xbox TV app, any Game Pass Ultimate subscriber will be able to play their favorite Xbox Games on a TV without any additional hardware besides a controller. In case your TV doesn't receive support for the app, Microsoft is also planning to launch streaming hardware devices.

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GeekWire

APRIL 27, 2021

As per the company’s fiscal third quarter earnings report , Microsoft’s Xbox division posted $3.6 Microsoft also reported a 232% increase in overall gaming hardware revenue, which it attributes to continued high demand for the Xbox Series X|S. Microsoft beats earnings estimates with $41.7B in profit, up 44%.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 18, 2024

Both TrendForce and Tom's Hardware sources believe Microsoft will require new Windows PCs to meet a performance threshold of at least 40 TOPS (trillions of operations per second) to be labeled as a true AI PC. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

MAY 6, 2021

Microsoft revealed in a court appearance this week that it does not, and has never, earned money on the per-unit sales for the Xbox. Each console is sold at a loss, and the profit from the project for Microsoft comes entirely from software sales. This was disclosed during a Microsoft executive’s testimony in the Epic v.

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 5, 2023

Microsoft aims to invest billions of dollars in CoreWeave to bolster cloud computing infrastructure for AI operations in the coming years. The post Microsoft Drives AI Efforts With CoreWeave Deal appeared first on Spiceworks.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 5, 2024

Microsoft was one of the first corporations to bring affordable hardware wonders like the mouse to PC users in the 1980s. Hardware has changed, and competition has increased since then, making it hard for the Redmond giant to justify the resource expenditure against its more modern hardware offerings like its.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

Microsoft is getting ready to launch its xCloud game streaming service later this year as part of Xbox Game Pass. The service will initially be powered by Xbox One S consoles in server blades in Microsoft’s datacenters, but the software giant is planning to upgrade this hardware next year. An existing xCloud server blade.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 25, 2021

(Microsoft Image). Microsoft has announced the release date for its forthcoming first-person shooter Halo Infinite , as well as a lineup of special-edition Xbox hardware meant to celebrate the video game franchise’s 20 th anniversary. 8, Microsoft confirmed Wednesday at the German gaming conference Gamescom.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Microsoft is extending the warranty on its Xbox Elite 2 controller following complaints over hardware issues. We’ve received claims that a small percentage of our customers are experiencing mechanical issues when using their Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2,” explains a Microsoft support article. “To

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Microsoft recently expressed its desire to bring its subscription services to as many screens and devices as possible, including PlayStation and Nintendo consoles. Its strategy is to take full advantage of subscriptions, including Game Pass, which return higher profit margins than traditional retail game sales. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

According to his LinkedIn profile, Panay joined Microsoft in April 2004 as a group program manager for their PC hardware division. In 2013, he was promoted to corporate vice president of Surface and PC hardware before becoming chief product officer in April 2018. He's long been a public face of. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2021

Xbox’s Phil Spencer discusses Microsoft’s gaming legacy with CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft screenshot). Microsoft is doubling down on its Xbox Game Pass video game subscription service with plans to embed it directly into internet-connected TVs, requiring just a controller to play Xbox games.

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself. But what if there are ideas out there — outside of your company’s…

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TechSpot

MAY 18, 2023

This period is also historically when Sony and Microsoft refresh the design of their systems. Although neither company has indicated PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series mid-generation upgrades are in the works, one game studio exec says a hardware refresh is likely coming soon. Read Entire Article

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Venture Beast

APRIL 27, 2021

Microsoft reported its Q3 2021 earnings today, and the Xbox division is growing fast thanks to hardware sales and services. Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Quantinuum Photo) Microsoft and Quantinuum say they’ve demonstrated a quantum computing system that can reduce the error rate for data processing by a factor of 800. The newly reported demonstration addresses that challenge: Microsoft and Quantinuum said they created four highly reliable logical qubits from just 30 physical qubits.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Xbox hardware sales are going strong for Microsoft as it heads out of Q1 and towards the holiday shopping season. Read More.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Panos Panay was the longtime leader of Microsoft’s hardware and devices business, whose responsibilities were expanded to include oversight of the Windows and Devices division. Microsoft announced Panay’s surprise departure earlier Monday morning. We’ve contacted Amazon for comment on the report.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At Ignite 2020, Microsoft detailed new Surface Hub 2S hardware, as well as software upgrades headed to existing Surface Hub devices. Read More.

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Anoop

AUGUST 26, 2020

Let’s SCCM Microsoft 365 App Report Dashboard. This post is a continuation of Part1, in my previous we imported two Raw data reports that gave us information about different Microsoft Office versions and Information on Office 365 Inventory after enabling the Hardware class. Subscribe YouTube Channel [link].

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming service (xCloud) is now fully powered by custom Xbox Series X hardware. Microsoft tells The Verge it recently completed the upgrade, which improves both framerates and game load times for players streaming Xbox games over the web. Image: Microsoft.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Sources have told the Xbox News Cast podcast that Microsoft plans to enter the next hardware cycle with a traditional console and a dockable handheld variant similar to the Nintendo Switch. Speaking on this week's episode, "MAGG" also supports previous rumors indicating the next generation of Xbox could launch in 2026.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We already know Microsoft is launching Windows 11 on Oct. 5, but what would a new operating system be without new hardware to showcase it? Microsoft is having what many have pegged as a Surface hardware event on Sept. 22 at 8 a.m. It’s all virtual, of course, and there’s a link available if you want to… Read more.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 30, 2024

Satya Nadella says Microsoft has “moved from talking about AI to applying AI at scale.” ” (File Photo) Microsoft’s revenue from its Azure cloud platform and related services rose 30% in the quarter ended Dec. Other notable segment and product results: Microsoft Cloud revenue was $33.7 billion, up 24%.

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GeekWire

MARCH 21, 2024

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 10, left and Surface Pro 6, right. It’s the latest move by Microsoft to make its Copilot AI tools a standard for businesses, part of its broader competition with other enterprise tech providers including Google, Salesforce, Amazon, and others. Pricing for the devices starts around $1,200.

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TechSpot

MARCH 27, 2024

At Intel's recent AI summit in Taipei, the company informed Tom's Hardware that Windows PCs will soon leverage Neural Processing Units (NPUs) to run Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant locally. This is the first confirmation of rumors that emerged regarding Copilot and increasingly prevalent NPUs late last year. Read Entire Article

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Amazon opens a ‘Palace’ for designers Amazon Web Services is introducing an open-source software platform called Palace (which stands for Pa rallel, La rge-Scale C omputational E lectromagnetics) that can perform 3-D simulations of complex electromagnetic models and enable the design of quantum computing hardware.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft all had a strong month for hardware sales, according to the November 2020 NPD gaming report. Read More.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Microsoft 365 Copilot will be released Nov. Microsoft Image) It was a big week for Microsoft, with the unveiling of the company’s latest Windows and AI features and new Surface devices at a special event in New York City. A closer look at longtime Microsoft devices leader 1, the company announced this week.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This year’s Microsoft Ignite developer conference might as well be called AIgnite, with over half of the almost 600 sessions featuring artificial intelligence in some shape or form. Here’s some of the top AI news CIOs will want to take away from Microsoft Ignite 2023. The new Copilot will be generally available from Dec.

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Tech Republic Data Center

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Microsoft is making it easier to switch to secure modern options. It’s time to stop relying on the insecure authentication protocol built into Windows.

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