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Microsoft always plays a major role in helping out the Non Profit Organizations and set examples for others. This time its philanthropic act is most remarkable, on 27th of July 2011 Microsoft announced that it has revised the software donation program which will provide ease and convenience to Non Profit Organizations to avail the reasonably priced state-of-the-art technology. Since 1998, this program has presented above US$3.9 billion worth of software to different NGOs all over the world. Now Microsoft has expanded this program to facilitate further NGOs to ask for software contributions whenever they need throughout the year.
Microsoft has unveiled its latest cloud service i.e. Microsoft Office 365 which now is available in above 40 countries and it combines Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Exchange Online and Microsoft Lync Online in a forever state-of-the-art cloud service at an expected journal contribution.
What is Microsoft Office 365?
Microsoft Office 365 provides a wide range of service plans; monthly subscription fee for per user is U.S$2 to $27.
Joint Venture of Nokia and Microsoft
Nokia has shocked everyone with the news of tying up with Microsoft regarding the mobile phone software. In other words, the mobile phone King has accepted its defeat as well as failure of the Symbian operating system. Form now onwards, Nokia is all set to adopt the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system in its smartphones instead of the good old Symbian!!
It implies the integration of Bing Search as well as Xbox Live into Nokia phones, and Ovi Maps incorporation into Bing Search.
Now, Nokia has also announced that it has plans to step into the Tablet arena! We will have to wait for its next announcement to know whether Nokia will stay with Microsoft while producing tablets, or will choose some other platform!!
This Thursday the Hotmail users had to wait for quite some hours just for accessing their email and the reason was some technical problem in Hotmail. A Spokesman from Microsoft has reported via email that the problem got started at 3:30 a.m. U.S Eastern time and has affected ‘a small amount of people’, the particular details regarding the number of affected people were not provided by her.
The statement which came out from her side states that “We are continuing to investigate the issue, but can confirm that the majority of customers that were affected are now able to access their Hotmail accounts,”.
Microsoft is now getting very harsh on windows XP because 2 of its latest products, the Windows 7 and Vista are not getting the expected fame because of Windows XP. The Company is acting in quite a natural way, the old success of its products is not letting the innovations to come in that way and that is the reason, Microsoft isn’t happy at the success of Windows XP.
The company is nowadays doing its best to kill the Windows XP but users are not letting that happen, even the company refused to support the XP SPF2 still users are not ready to leave XP for other versions though their computer has now gone on risks.
