Tag: Microsoft

The metaverse is clearly in the news of late, and it appears to be on pace to be one of the biggest trends of 2022. Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers the announcement out of Microsoft’s Ignite event of the launch of its Mesh for Teams, a new offering intended to blend the digital and physical worlds, expected to roll out to users in 2022, and offering insight on what this means for the future of the metaverse in the workplace.
This summer, Microsoft announced Windows 365, a cloud PC, that allows users to enjoy a personalized Windows experience on any personal or corporate device—from anywhere. Another piece of the hybrid work puzzle, which is rapidly changing as tech looks to make remote and hybrid work easier.
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard explains how Qualcomm’s clever new WiFi Dual Station solution, coupled with Qualcomm FastConnect 4-stream Dual Band Simultaneous, brings ethernet-like reliability and latency to wireless gaming and video of Windows 11 PCs. Also discussed are the importance of Windows 11 native support to the solution’s broad industry adoption, as evidenced by Acer, AMD, Lenovo, Microsoft, Snapdragon Compute Platforms and Valve already moving to integrate it into their product ecosystems.
What do you do when you run out of talent? There's a problem now being felt especially in the tech industry, where a lack of skilled IT workers — especially in cloud field — could cause digital transformation to stall in its tracks.
When the pandemic first began, many employers turned to technology to keep employees connected and engaged. Now, in some cases, employees have so many apps they find it hard to be productive. Futurum's Daniel Newman takes a look at how to manage this very real, and important challenge.
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on newly announced research, developed in collaboration with Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba, Carnegie Mellon, and East China Normal University in Shanghai, proposing an Ethereum-based approach to combating software piracy. This distributed ledger-based approach seeks to combat the challenges around reporting software piracy and providing a robust and transparent incentive structure.
This week Microsoft acquired a small but strategic company, Peer 5, to address the growing demand for live video streaming in Teams.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss all things earnings related from Qualcomm, Microsoft, AMD, Google, Amazon and Poly.
A deal to purchase SAS would diversify Broadcom’s prospects as a real player in software, which it has struggled to achieve.
Tech names AMD, Apple, Google, and Microsoft all saw their results significantly outperform guidance and expectations this week.
Microsoft delivered strong results in its fiscal Q4 with its best YoY growth in three years as Cloud and business app growth remains robust.
On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech news stories that made headlines this week including updates from the latest Microsoft Inspire event, Intel's possible acquisition of GlobalFoundries and more topics you won't want to miss.

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