Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is cutting a further 800 jobs across its operations, on top of 5,000 jobs already eliminated under a plan to reduce costs that was announced in January. A spokesman for the world’s largest software firm said the latest job cuts are spread across the company’s global operations, but about [...]
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22 Oct
To buy or not to buy Microsoft Windows 7 ? Windows 7 vs Vista vs XP.
Earlier OS released by Microsoft was Windows Vista and it got horrible response from the users. Microsoft Vista was any way not good as it requires and consumes too much of memory. They would definitely stop the support for Microsoft Vista in few years from now. Give this, it is better to stick with Windows XP [...]
22 Oct
Planning to purchase Microsoft’s new OS Windows 7. Please hold on your purchase and read and compare features of Windows 7 with Windows Vista or Windows XP.
Microsoft India has announced on 22nd Oct the arrival of Windows 7 for its customers in India. As per Microsoft, this OS will be reliable and responsive but they had claimed similar for Windows Vista. We all know what happened to Windows Vista, and image of the Microsoft company post Vista release. Microsoft releases new [...]
6 Aug
Microsoft is hiring at least 400 Yahoo employees.
Microsoft assumes control of the search results and search advertising on Yahoo’s Web site and plans to hire 400 Yahoo employees on his payroll. Microsoft Corp will hire at least 400 workers from Yahoo Inc if government regulators approve the companies’ proposed Internet search partnership, and Yahoo will receive $150 million to cover any unexpected [...]
23 Jul
Microsoft Windows 7 is on the way to hardware shops. Releases OS code to PC makers to implant.
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is releasing the code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, keeping the software company on track to have machines running its new operating system in the stores by late October. The move means Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, Acer Inc and other computer makers can start to load up new [...]
20 Jun
Good news pouring in from Indian IT Services Providers. Infosys, TCS, Satyam, Tech Mahindra disclosing few nice surprises.
Last week Satyam (Part of Tech Mahindra now), Infosys and TCS disclosed few nice surprises. It seems that Indian IT Service sectors has left the past and looking ahead for future. In relief to the Satyam employees, about 400 people who were asked to sit on the virtual bench have been called back into the [...]
10 Jun
Free Anti-Virus Software from Microsoft on the way.
Microsoft Corp is getting ready to unveil a long-anticipated free anti-virus service for personal computers that will compete with products sold by Symantec Corp and McAfee Inc. A Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday that the world’s biggest software maker is testing an early version of the product with its own employees. Microsoft would “soon” make [...]
11 May
Microsoft to layoff 55 employees in Hyderabad, India.
Microsoft said that they will layoff 55 employees from their office in Hyderabad, India, which is one per cent of its Indian staff, as slowdown hits the sector, affecting business and profitability. The announcement on this is part of the Redmond-based company’s decision in January this year to cut 5,000 jobs globally amid the [...]
11 Apr
Microsoft, HCL tie up to provide jobs for 600.
Computer giant Microsoft has signed a $ 170-million five-year contract with India’s HCL for outsourcing work for its online business productivity suite. HCL will provide 600 employees to support the contract and nearly 250 workers have already begun work on the project. Microsoft has not said whether this contract is to replace any existing agreement [...]
1 Apr
Death of another Microsoft venture. Microsoft to shut online encyclopedia Encarta.
Microsoft plans to close its Encarta online encyclopedia, which competes in an arena dominated by communally-crafted free Internet reference source Wikipedia. The US software colossus said that on October 31 it will turn off all its Encarta websites everywhere except in Japan, with that service to be terminated on the last day of December. “The [...]
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