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Microsoft to Announce New Mobile Phone Software

13 February 2010

Microsoft Corp is set to announce new mobile phone software on Monday, according to sources close to the company, as it looks to wrestle back market share from Apple Inc’s iPhone and Research in Motion Ltd’s BlackBerry. The world’s largest software company, which makes operating systems for phones made by HTC Corp, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, [...]

Facebook Removes Microsoft Banner Ads From site

6 February 2010

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Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world’s No. 1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business. However, Microsoft the exclusive provider of Web search on Facebook will continue to sell text-based search ads on the website as the partners [...]

Microsoft Pakistan Bloggers Day Held at FAST University Karachi

23 January 2010

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Microsoft Pakistan is organizing a bloggers meetup named as “Bloggers Day” to showcase Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8. This event will be organized especially for the bloggers community of Pakistan by Microsoft. This event will help you in developing a much better understanding of the real world applications for Windows 7 & Internet Explorer [...]

Microsoft Pakistan Recently Organized Academic Festival at Bahria University

11 December 2009

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Microsoft Pakistan recently organized Microsoft Academic Festival at Bahria University, Karachi. Its objective was to provide an opportunity to students and academicians to interact directly with Microsoft and get an insight on its programs and initiatives. Imagine Cup 2010 Competition was officially launched on the same day. The Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft is [...]

Microsoft Launched Eid Pack for Windows Live Messenger

26 November 2009

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Microsoft Arabia recently launched a new “Eid Emoticons” pack for Windows Live Messenger. This package was developed by LINK Development, a service company from Egypt who also recently help Microsoft Egypt to build a World-Class and first official city tourism portal “Luxor Egypt“. Click Here to Download Source : MicrsoftFeed

SharePoint Pakistan User Group is arranging a “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch”

26 November 2009

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SharePoint Pakistan User Group is arranging a “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” that will be held on 5th of December, 2009 at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. Technical Communities play very important role in helping developers stay in touch with other developers, learn latest technologies and getting solutions to the problems they are facing in the [...]

Warid Telecom Cost Cutting with Microsoft Hyper-V Solution

9 November 2009

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Microsoft with it’s Gold Certified Partners Kalsoft and Jaffer Business Systems deployed virtual desktop infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V at Warid Telecom International based in Lahore with regional centers in Islamabad and Karachi. Warid Telecom increased uptime to 99.9 percent, cut support time by 40 percent, and expects to reduce power consumption by 80 percent and capital costs by 20 percent.

“Microsoft Academic Festival” in Bahria University Karachi

7 November 2009

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Microsoft Pakistan is planning to organize Microsoft Academic Festival at Bahria University, Karachi on Saturday 14th of November, 2009 from 03:45pm to 08:00pm. Its objective is to provide an opportunity to students and academicians to interact directly with Microsoft and get an insight on its programs and initiatives.

Samsung and Microsoft Going for Green IT Technology in Future

5 November 2009

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Following a meeting in Seoul between the Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Yoon-Woo Lee, and the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Samsung Electronics announced that it will collaborate with Microsoft on efficient energy usage in computers.

Pakistan – “Microsoft Community Bootcamp” in Pictures

1 November 2009

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Microsoft Pakistan recently arranged “Microsoft Community Bootcamp” exclusively for Microsoft Community members. The Bootcamp provided an excellent opportunity to network with other Most Valuable Professionals, Professional Partners, Student Partners, Community Speakers & Microsoft Pakistan team members.

Microsoft Community Bootcamp Tomorrow in Pakistan

29 October 2009

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Microsoft Pakistan is arranging “Microsoft Community Bootcamp” exclusively for Microsoft Community members. The Bootcamp will provide an excellent opportunity to network with other Most Valuable Professionals, Professional Partners, Student Partners, Community Speakers & Microsoft Pakistan team members and will help in developing a much better understanding of latest Technology & Microsoft Platform. The upcoming plans and initiatives taken for the community members will also be highlighted there.

“Microsoft DreamSpark” for Students in Pakistan

28 October 2009

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In 2008, Microsoft announced that they will giveaway latest Microsoft Developer and Designer tools to millions of students all around the world at zero cost that will help them in their academic and career success. The Microsoft DreamSpark student program provides students to download broad range of software absolutely free. Not only they are giving software but also free distributing free coupons of Microsoft Certification exam and some other eLearning offers.

Microsoft Awards Warid Pakistan

23 October 2009

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Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. the country’s most reliable service provider has always been on forefront in deploying the latest technology, partnering with the Worlds top class vendors like Oracle, Cisco, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Warid has recently commenced an outstanding project of implementing Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V. This initiative was taken as part of Microsoft’s early adoption Program for this cutting edge virtualization technology. Warid Telecom was amongst the pioneer customers in the MEA region in implementing VDI solution under this program.

The New Efficiency – Windows 7 launch event was held at the Sheraton Hotel Karachi

22 October 2009

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Today, Microsoft Pakistan held the launching ceremony of Windows 7 at the Sheraton Hotel, Karachi. The event was kick started at 08:45 AM. The event was titled as The New Efficiency – Windows 7 Launch. Huge audience attended the event ranging from IT professionals, executives, enterprise businessmen and also bloggers. Mr. Kamal Ahmed, Country GM, Microsoft Pakistan addressed the keynote on the launch of Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010. The motive of launching three new products is to help businesses meet their challenges and attract customers back to the Microsoft brand. No doubt, these products have received good reviews and will help maximize the potential of consumers.

Ministry of Food & Agriculture and Intel Launch Info Facilitation Centre

22 August 2009

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Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Intel Microsoft Company here on Friday agreed to launch information facilities for farmers at Tele-centres, established in rural areas by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Initially 50 Tele-centres would be established in rural areas all over Pakistan.