News & Reviews:   Microsoft

Today, Microsoft has announced that it will establish its first datacenter region in Malaysia to deliver trusted cloud services locally. It is aligned with the Bersama Malaysia initiative that is committed to empowering Malaysia’s inclusive digital economy and advancing the nation’s digital transformation across the private and public sectors.

In this short announcement, it seems that multiple sources have reported that tech giant Microsoft is interested in acquiring Discord. Nothing is concrete yet, but the acquisition could go over $10 billion. Sources also reported that other companies are interested but Microsoft is the favourite here.

If you're a big fan of AR games, this bit of news could be exciting for you. Microsoft recently hosted the Ignite 2021 event, where many companies showed new technologies. One of them was Niantic, which revealed a new tech that can bring AR games to 'life' with Microsoft hardware.

Based on a statement by Twitter user @_h0x0d_, it seems that Microsoft could be planning to release a new Windows operating system sometime after March 2021. While not much is known in regards to the exact release date, it does give us an idea of when to expect the aforementioned operating system.

The increasingly popular voice-based social platform Clubhouse has been visited by the co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates recently. On the platform, he had shared some of his interesting thoughts during a session about few things. Let's read on to find out what did the business leader say!

After releasing the Office 2019 back in September 2018, Microsoft will be bringing upgrades to the software by launching Office 2021 later this year. The news was announced yesterday with the company promising two new versions that will be available on both Mac and Windows PCs in the second half of the year.

We talked about Microsoft's xCloud before and in case you don't remember what is it - it's a gaming streaming platform that allows gamers to access online on a website. The company has been working on it for several months now and they are now having a test before sending out to the public.

Microsoft is working on bringing the dead back to life, or something similar to that. It is reported that the tech giant has granted a patent that uses the personal information of deceased people to build chatbots. Although we've seen such an idea happening in movies or TV series, it's still surprising knowing that it can be achieved in real life.

Microsoft has officially announced that the Surface Pro 7+ is officially available in Malaysia starting from the price of RM4115. The products will be available for purchase in Malaysia via Surface Commercial Authorized Resellers.

It seems that a report by techradar seems to hint that Windows 10, will most likely be receiving an update very soon which will add a new feature to the taskbar called “News and Interests” very soon. While not much is known in regards to the exact release date, our source did mention that it will most likely be available somewhere around October 2021 with the Windows 10 Build 21286 update.