Microsoft is giving one-time cash awards of up to 25% of annual bonus to these employees: Read the company’s memo – Times of India

Microsoft is giving a special one-time cash award to its employees, amounting to an additional 10% to 25% of their annual bonus value for the recently concluded fiscal year. The announcement came as the tech giant reported strong fourth-quarter earnings, surpassing Wall Street expectations.Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, communicated the decision in a company-wide…

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Microsoft reports outage of Office apps and services: Read the company’s statement – Times of India

Microsoft Corp said that it’s investigating outages of some Office applications and services. The issue is impacting “multiple Microsoft 365 services and features,” the company said in a post on social network X, formerly Twitter. Microsoft 365 includes company’s productivity applications like Outlook, Word and Excel.“We’re currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple…

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ son-in-law to compete in Paris Olympics 2024: Here’s the country he will represent and more – Times of India

Nayel Nassar, the husband of tech billionaire Bill Gates‘ eldest daughter Jennifer, is set to represent Egypt in the equestrian jumping event at the Paris Olympics. The Egyptian-American equestrian has previously competed in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, achieving 16th and 24th positions in the team and individual events, respectively. Nassar’s participation in the Paris Olympics…

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CrowdStrike outage: Microsoft now wants to keep away the access of Windows Kernel from these companies – Times of India

Microsoft is advocating for significant changes to Windows security architecture in the wake of a major outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike update last week. The incident, which affected 8.5 million PCs, has prompted Microsoft to reassess the resilience of its operating system and consider limiting kernel-level access for third-party security vendors.John Cable, Microsoft’s vice…

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10 Microsoft outage memes that broke the internet – Times of India

Microsoft Windows users across the globe were impacted by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. It triggered countless devices to crash and display the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), disrupting operations across industries including airlines, banking and broadcasting.Later in the day, CrowdStrike identified the issue and rolled back the problematic update.While the immediate…

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Microsoft’s massive outage explained in 10 points: Blue Screen of Death, Azure, CrowdStrike and all we know so far – Times of India

A massive IT outage has thrown businesses and critical services into chaos globally, with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services experiencing widespread disruptions. The root cause? A faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike, affecting countless Windows PCs and servers across various sectors. What is the root of this global IT crisis The primary trigger was…

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‘My first hand-written boarding pass’: Flyer shares unique experience as Microsoft outage affects airline services | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: A domestic flyer in India shared his unique experience of receiving a hand-written boarding pass due to the global tech outage as Microsoft/Crowdstrike services went down. “The Microsoft / CrowdStrike outage has taken down most airports in India. I got my first hand-written boarding pass today,” wrote a flyer, travelling from Hyderabad to…

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Microsoft Outage: Microsoft Windows reports major service outage globally: Users share this ‘error message’ screenshot | – Times of India

Microsoft Windows users are facing Blue Screen of Death errors across the world. Many users took to microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) to report about the issue. As per reports, Windows users are seeing blue screen erorrs on their screen with the laptop/PC getting stuck on restart loop.As per a Wall Street Journal report, the…

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Nvidia beats Microsoft and Apple to become the world’s most valuable company – Times of India

Nvidia Corp’s surge continues, propelling the chipmaker to the top of the global tech market capitalization leaderboard. The AI chip maker has beaten technology giants Apple and Microsoft to become the world’s most-valuable company. This achievement underscores the dominance of artificial intelligence (AI) in investor focus.Shares climbed as high as 3.4% on Tuesday (June 18),…

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