Registrations for Microsoft Build 2021 are open, which is going to be held from May 25 to May 27, as per the announcement made by Microsoft.

The company has also confirmed the schedule of the event which same as last year will be held virtually and with no charge for the attendees, with a total of 10 speakers. 

CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella will commence the Build 2021 with a keynote at 9 pm Indian Standard Time (IST), followed by technical sessions from 10 pm IST.

With live QnA sessions, viewers will be able to choose from five different technical sessions based on their interests. 

The names of the speakers for the events are Amanda Silver, Donovan Brown, Kayla Cinnamon, Scott Guthrie, Leslie Richardson, Scott Hanselman, Anna Hoffman, Rajesh Jha, and Kevin Scott. 

Interested users can sign up for the event using their Microsoft, LinkedIn, or GitHub accounts. 

A special sign is also available for Microsoft Work or School accounts as well as Microsoft employees.

After the sign-in is done, visitors have to fill an online form followed by a survey with some basic information to register for the event. 

Microsoft Build is an annual developer conference held by the tech major to provide insights on what the company is working on for the coming year. 

Through the conference, the company aims to make the developers aware of how to best frame their work around various Microsoft services.
 

The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as the American tech partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.

Microsoft announced Sunday that its bid to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations was rejected, removing the tech giant from the running a week before President Donald Trump promises to follow through with a plan to ban the Chinese-owned app in the U.S. over spying concerns.

TikTok and the White House declined to comment Sunday. Oracle didn’t return a request for comment but has previously declined comment.

Walmart, which had planned to partner with Microsoft on the acquisition, said Sunday it “continues to have an interest in a TikTok investment” and is talking about it with ByteDance and other parties.

The Trump administration has threatened to ban TikTok by Sept. 20 and ordered ByteDance to sell its U.S. business, claiming national-security risks due to its Chinese ownership. The government worries about user data being funneled to Chinese authorities. TikTok denies it is a national-security risk and is suing to stop the administration from the threatened ban.

Microsoft said in a Sunday statement that ByteDance “let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft.”

Microsoft added it was “confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users while protecting national security interests.” The company said it “would have made significant changes to ensure the service met the highest standards for security, privacy, online safety, and combating disinformation.”

TikTok, which says it has 100 million U.S. users and about 700 million globally, is known for its fun, goofy videos of dancing, lip-syncing, pranks and jokes. It’s recently become home to more political content such as the comedian Sarah Cooper, who drew a large audience by lip-syncing Trump’s own often-disjointed statements from public appearances.

TikTok denies that it has shared user data with the Chinese government or that it would do so if asked. The company says it has not censored videos at the request of Chinese authorities and insists it is not a national-security threat.

TikTok has sued to stop the ban, but not the sale order. The negotiations have been complicated by several factors, including Trump’s repeated demands that the U.S. government should get a “cut” of any deal, a stipulation and role for the president that experts say is unprecedented.

In addition, the Chinese government in late August unveiled new regulations that restrict exports of technology, likely including the artificial intelligence system TikTok uses to choose which videos to spool up to its users. That means ByteDance would have to obtain a license from China to export such technology to a foreign company.

The deal had come together rapidly after the administration ramped up its threats against TikTok this summer, despite TikTok’s efforts to put distance between its app and its Chinese ownership. It installed former Disney executive Kevin Mayer as its American CEO, but he resigned in August after just a few months on the job, saying the “political environment has sharply changed.”

Both Microsoft and Oracle are known more for their business software offerings than for those intended for consumers.

Oracle primarily makes database software. It competes with tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon that provide cloud services as well as business-software specialists like Salesforce.

Thill suggested that TikTok competitors like Facebook and Snapchat should be “cheering on Oracle” as a buyer because Oracle wouldn’t “add a lot of value to the app.”

The president said on Aug. 18 that Oracle was “a great company” that “could handle” buying TikTok. He declined to state his preference between Oracle and Microsoft as buyers.

source: AP

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Skype is a Microsoft videoconferencing app. Microsoft has two videoconferencing apps, skype, and Teams. The company is bringing all-new features to Skype after it sacrificed 'Skype for businesses' to promote Teams. In July, the company added Together Mode to its Teams app. This enabled everyone in a video call powered by AI segmentation technology to be in the same virtual space, similar to being seated at an auditorium or theater.

The National Basketball Association used this feature to recreate the aura of a packed arena, with broadcasts being weirdly silent in the absence of physically present fans to cheer their teams on. According to some tech news websites, Together Mode is one of the most popular features of Teams'. Microsoft will be offering the feature to their Skype users soon. 

Provided there are at least five participants, The latest version of Skype will allow users to be in the same virtual place as their friends, family, and colleagues, and everyone in the call should have their Webcam turned on. This facility can be accessed through Skype's web client so there is no need to install Skype on their computer. For a call to happen only one person should have a skype account and the remaining can be invited through a Meet Now link.

Skype is being better with a bunch of enhancements by Microsoft. The latest update of Skype is said to include a grid mode feature by which users can see all webcam streams at the same time. Also one can add custom backgrounds. Skype 8.67 is available for download on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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Microsoft has made a huge profit in the first three months of 2021, as the demand for its cloud computing services has been soaring through the roof. 

 

The company reported a profit of $14.8 billion within the fiscal third quarter which is up by 38% compared to the same period last year. 

With the ongoing pandemic, we are witnessing more and more adoption of digital work and study life, in the last year. 

Revenue from Microsoft's productivity segment, which includes its Office suite of workplace products such as email, grew by 15% over the same time last year, to $13.6 billion. 

Whereas the cloud computing business segment of Microsoft grew 23% to $15.1 billion. 

The first quarter of 2021 has been extremely beneficial financially for the sale of PCs in part due to unfulfilled demand because of a components backlog.

Also due to an unusually weak first quarter of 2020, the industry has achieved a major rise in business.

All the bottled-up demand for consoles during the Christmas season also resulted in a 34% rise in sales of Xbox content and services early this year. 

The big businesses, government bodies, and the rest of the workforce committing to their jobs online have boosted the growth of cloud services procurement.

Microsoft is buying Massachusetts speech recognition company  Nuance for $ 16 billion, which will take the company deeper into health care industry, with Nuance's medical dictation and transcription tools.