#Microsoft to buy green jet fuel to cut business flight emissions

#Microsoft to buy green jet fuel to cut business flight emissions

“#Microsoft to buy green jet fuel to cut business flight emissions” Microsoft will buy sustainable jet fuel to help reduce the environmental impact of its employees’ business travel, the tech giant said Thursday. The Windows maker announced a partnership with Alaska Airlines to offset emissions from its staffers’ flights on three frequently traveled routes out…

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#Microsoft joins with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand cloud-computing platform

#Microsoft joins with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand cloud-computing platform

“#Microsoft joins with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand cloud-computing platform” Microsoft is partnering with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk-led SpaceX and others as it expands its cloud-computing platform into space, the software giant said Tuesday. The partnership would allow Microsoft to connect its Azure cloud computing platform to SpaceX’s network of low-Earth orbiting satellites, offering the…

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#Microsoft reportedly stops hacking operation targeting election

#Microsoft reportedly stops hacking operation targeting election

“#Microsoft reportedly stops hacking operation targeting election” Microsoft has shut down a massive hacking operation that could’ve potentially indirectly impacted election infrastructure, according to a new report. The company announced Monday that it took down the servers behind the malware network Trickbot, which criminals were using to launch other cyberattacks, including a strain of extremely…

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#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination

#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination

“#Microsoft defends diversity efforts after feds cry discrimination” Microsoft stood by its efforts to hire and promote more black staffers this week after the feds raised concerns that it was making discriminatory employment decisions. The US Department of Labor took issue with Microsoft’s June pledge to double its number of black and African American managers…

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#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)

#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)

“#Bing gets rebranded as Microsoft Bing (yes, really)” Microsoft‘s in-house search engine, Bing, is getting an upgrade to match the rest of the company’s products, and is now going to be called “Microsoft Bing.” The company announced the change in a blog post, and you can now find “Microsoft Bing” everywhere on the search engine….

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#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide

#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide

“#Microsoft Outlook outage affects email users worldwide” Microsoft Outlook suffered its second major outage this week on Thursday morning as people around the world had trouble using the email platform for more than four hours. The outage, which Microsoft confirmed around 2 a.m. Eastern time, was preventing users from accessing email accounts over the internet…

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