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CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.

CrowdStrike has caused a major global outage of Microsoft services including Windows and Office 365 following an update. The alleged issue brought the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) to Windows devices across the world, with users unable to access the devices. Furthermore, the problem is also reported to have resulted in the disruption of service...

Microsoft Cloud Outage: A major tech issue has affected millions of Windows computer systems worldwide, causing a sudden shutdown or restart. Microsoft Inc. said the error is due to a recent CrowdStrike update.

Microsoft is expanding the support of Indian regional languages for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot. The tech giant is adding multiple new Indian languages to the AI model to accurately understand queries and generate responses in these languages. As per the company, support for more languages was added to make the AI tool more acc...

Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the US tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

Adobe and Microsoft joined hands to announce a suite of new AI features for marketers at the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. In this collaboration, Adobe will offer its Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 applications. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing data silos and the inconvenience of using mult...

Microsoft Copilot Pro, the premium tier of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is now available in 222 countries, including India. The tech giant announced on Thursday that the chatbot-based AI suite is available to individuals as well as small and medium-sized organisations. Copilot Pro was first introduced in January 2024 in se...

Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Copilot for Finance on Thursday, aiming to help financial professionals in easily navigating through everyday mundane tasks. The Copilot tool is not a new AI model, and instead builds on the existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 stack to bring new features specific to financial operatio...

Ahead of Apple Vision Pro's February 2 launch, major streaming apps like Netflix, YouTube and Spotify have opted to shun the new platform. But the Vision Pro won’t have a shortage of apps at launch. Apple has reportedly received submissions from developers for around 250 apps with native support for visionOS.

Microsoft has refined its AI-driven offerings over the past year, integrating artificial intelligence tools to Bing Search, Windows and its Office 365 suite of services that include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. The company recently announced that it was unifying its AI services, including the Bing Chat AI chatbot, under a single umb...

Microsoft has expanded Bing Chat support to Google Chrome. The feature started rolling out on August 25 and the tech giant has shared details of the rollout via a blog post. Until now, Bing Chat was accessible on Microsoft Edge, but the new expansion has made it accessible on Chrome for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Microsoft researchers on Monday said that Russia-linked hackers have conducted "highly targeted" social engineering attacks on "fewer than 40 unique global organisations" since late May. The hacking group's campaign seeks to steal login credentials from users by engaging with them as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams, according to the comp...

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53 percent more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology.

Microsoft is likely to face an EU antitrust investigation in the coming months after remedy discussions with the EU watchdog to avert such a move appear to have hit a roadblock, people familiar with the matter said.

Alphabet's Google formally filed a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers towards its cloud services, The Information reported on Wednesday. Microsoft used the licensing terms in its Office 365 productivity software to lock customers into separate ...

CrowdStrike, the Texas-based cybersecurity company, caused one of the biggest global outages in recent times when it led to the disruption of several Microsoft services following an update to one of its products on Friday. As the curtain draws to a close on a certainly eventful day, here are 5 things to know about the Microsoft global outage.

CrowdStrike has caused a major global outage of Microsoft services including Windows and Office 365 following an update. The alleged issue brought the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) to Windows devices across the world, with users unable to access the devices. Furthermore, the problem is also reported to have resulted in the disruption of service...

Microsoft Cloud Outage: A major tech issue has affected millions of Windows computer systems worldwide, causing a sudden shutdown or restart. Microsoft Inc. said the error is due to a recent CrowdStrike update.

Microsoft is expanding the support of Indian regional languages for its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Copilot. The tech giant is adding multiple new Indian languages to the AI model to accurately understand queries and generate responses in these languages. As per the company, support for more languages was added to make the AI tool more acc...

Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the US tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.

Adobe and Microsoft joined hands to announce a suite of new AI features for marketers at the Adobe Summit on Tuesday. In this collaboration, Adobe will offer its Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 applications. The new capabilities are aimed at reducing data silos and the inconvenience of using mult...

Microsoft Copilot Pro, the premium tier of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) platform, is now available in 222 countries, including India. The tech giant announced on Thursday that the chatbot-based AI suite is available to individuals as well as small and medium-sized organisations. Copilot Pro was first introduced in January 2024 in se...

Microsoft unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool called Copilot for Finance on Thursday, aiming to help financial professionals in easily navigating through everyday mundane tasks. The Copilot tool is not a new AI model, and instead builds on the existing Copilot for Microsoft 365 stack to bring new features specific to financial operatio...

Ahead of Apple Vision Pro's February 2 launch, major streaming apps like Netflix, YouTube and Spotify have opted to shun the new platform. But the Vision Pro won’t have a shortage of apps at launch. Apple has reportedly received submissions from developers for around 250 apps with native support for visionOS.

Microsoft has refined its AI-driven offerings over the past year, integrating artificial intelligence tools to Bing Search, Windows and its Office 365 suite of services that include Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams. The company recently announced that it was unifying its AI services, including the Bing Chat AI chatbot, under a single umb...

Microsoft has expanded Bing Chat support to Google Chrome. The feature started rolling out on August 25 and the tech giant has shared details of the rollout via a blog post. Until now, Bing Chat was accessible on Microsoft Edge, but the new expansion has made it accessible on Chrome for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Microsoft researchers on Monday said that Russia-linked hackers have conducted "highly targeted" social engineering attacks on "fewer than 40 unique global organisations" since late May. The hacking group's campaign seeks to steal login credentials from users by engaging with them as technical support staff on Microsoft Teams, according to the comp...

Microsoft on Tuesday said it would charge at least 53 percent more to access new artificial intelligence features in its widely used office software, in a glimpse at the windfall it hopes to reap from the technology.

Microsoft is likely to face an EU antitrust investigation in the coming months after remedy discussions with the EU watchdog to avert such a move appear to have hit a roadblock, people familiar with the matter said.

Alphabet's Google formally filed a complaint to the US Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday saying Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers towards its cloud services, The Information reported on Wednesday. Microsoft used the licensing terms in its Office 365 productivity software to lock customers into separate ...