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Satya Nadella’s salary higher than Steve Ballmer: New Microsoft CEO makes top 10 highest paid tech execs
Is Satya Nadella being paid too much? Seventy-two percent of Microsoft’s shareholders don’t think so. The company CEO’s $84 million a year pay package was approved yesterday after it was first scrutinized by ISS, an investor advisory group, who came to the conclusion that the man seemingly pushing Microsoft towards a merrier future was being paid too much. ...
New co-opetition in cloud wars: Edit Microsoft Office files directly in Google Drive
You can now edit Microsoft Office files directly in Google Drive thanks to a new update for the search giant’s cloud-based file management system. Simply click on “edit with Google docs”. Multiple users will be able to access and edit files from anywhere once saved in the cloud, keeping track of changes, and are also ...
Leaked photos of Lumia 1020 successor suggest Microsoft’s mobile hardware plans
What seems to be a prototype of Microsoft’s new Lumia device appeared online recently on the Chinese auction site Taobao. The photos, which we can’t promise are the real deal, could possibly show a device made for the purposes of testing, or even be a version of the Lumia 1020 that didn’t make it all ...
Did Microsoft just give away its newest acquisition, a revolutionary email app?
A post on Microsoft’s official blog, that has since disappeared, suggests that the company might be about to purchase the email start-up company Accompli. The post, which was written by Microsoft’s corporate vice presidentRajesh Jha, was headed ‘blank post please delete,’, although as can be seen in a screenshot made available by TechCrunch, the text ...
Will Apple dump Google and move in with Bing or Yahoo?
Mozilla Corp. had already kicked its longtime search partner Google to the curb last week, begging the question, will Google suffer another major rebuff in 2015? The next break up could be from Apple Inc., a partner reportedly collecting a staggering $1 billion a year from Google to keep their iOS device relationship intact. A recent report by ...
Pretty Bing gets a facelift with Microsoft update: Can it outshine Yahoo?
The Bing search engine just became a little more interesting following the latest Microsoft update, which consists of image captions, an information carousel, high-definition (1920×1080) backgrounds and a new menu for Office Online. Microsoft reported that the move comes after Bing users had requested such features through feedback channels. Some of that feedback included, “Wouldn’t ...
Soccer fans tire of over-digitized experiences as Microsoft kicks off cloud deal with Real Madrid
Real Madrid, ranked the world’s best soccer club of the 20th century (or football,as it’s called outside the U.S.), have recently struck up a deal with Microsoft to transform how their live games are watched. Employing Microsoft’s cloud solutions, fans will now be privy to a closer inspection of the game with personalized and customized content and digital ...
Emergency update from Microsoft: Out-of-cycle security for devastating Kerberos bug
Microsoft has just added one of two missing security updates that were part of the 14 critical patches released last week. Updates MS14-068 and MS14-075 were supposed to be released last Tuesday, but for some reason, possibly due to a fault in the patch, the two patches were held back. MS14-068 will address CVE-2014-6324, a Windows Kerberos ...
Tech giants push USA Freedom Act now, fearing Republican rejection next year
In an era where public concern over omnipresent and oppressive government surveillance is at an historical high, partly attributable to Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency (NSA) revelations, nine of the world’s biggest tech companies are fighting for the public’s right to internet freedom. The coalition, made-up of Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, AOL, Dropbox and Evernote, ...
Did cloud put Microsoft in second place for world’s most valuable company rank?
Microsoft now trails only Apple Inc. on the list of the world’s most valuable companies, having leaped-frogged Exxon Mobil Corp. The Redmond tech-giant, led by CEO Satya Nadella and his cloud first, mobile first vision, has seen its total market value rise to $410 billion, compared to Exxon’s $404 billion. Apple is still way out ...