Tag: Microsoft
Microsoft breaks from NBC to launch own news portal
Software giant Microsoft has parted company with NBC News, pulling out of their joint venture MSNBC to launch its own online news service, the...
Microsoft takes $6.2b charge, slows Internet hopes
Microsoft Corp admitted its largest acquisition in the Internet sector was effectively worthless and wiped out any profit for the last quarter, as it...
Microsoft unveils ‘Surface’ tablet in iPad challenge
Software giant Microsoft unveiled its first tablet computer, the Surface, on Monday, in a major hardware launch clearly designed to take on long-term rival...
Microsoft Pakistan holds Innovative Education Forum
The Innovative Education Forum (IEF), hosted by Microsoft Pakistan, has brought together several teachers from private, public and NGO adopted schools to bring forward...
MICROSOFT USERS STRUGGLE WITH WINDOWS REDESIGN
The world’s largest software company says millions of people are already using a downloaded pre-release version of Windows 8 on PCs, laptops and touch-devices...
Windows 8 User Interface pictures leaked
Microsoft Windows 8, due to be announced two months from now, is undergoing last minute alterations.
Screenshots of the Microsoft Windows 8 have been...
Microsoft to defer revenue from Windows upgrade offer
From Saturday, Microsoft is offering customers who buy qualifying Windows 7 PCs the option to download an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for about...
Bill Gates invites Pak student who set world record
Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has invited an intelligent Pakistani student Shayan Anique Akhtar who set a world record in Microsoft Professional Certificate...
Brilliant LUMS student makes it to Microsoft before graduation
“Ecstatic…got the offer from Microsoft! All by grace of Allah and sacrifices of my great parents,” Muhammad Abdur Rauf, a senior Computer Science (CS)...
Arfa Karim commemorative postage stamp to be issued on Feb 2
A commemorative postage stamp honouring the late Arfa Karim Randhawa, who became the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional, before passing away on January 14,...
Bill Gates extends condolences to Arfa’s father
Microsoft owner Bill Gates on Monday offered condolences to Arfa Karim’s father over death of youngest Microsoft Certified Professional.
In his message, Gates said he...
Karachi’s IT Media City renamed after departed young genius
To honour Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional who passed away at the age of 16 in Lahore on Saturday, Karachi’s...
Arfa Karim laid to rest
Computer programming prodigy Arfa Karim Randhawawas was laid to rest in her ancestral graveyard in Faisalabad, here on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, her funeral...
National pride Arfa Karim passes away
Arfa Karim Randhawa, the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional from 2004 to 2008, passed away in the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Lahore, on Saturday...
Youngest Microsoft Certified Professional Aarifa Karim passes away
Arfa Karim, the world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), lost the battle of life after remaining admitted at a Lahore hospital on Saturday night....
Bill Gates hires doctors for Arfah Karim
Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Monday asked doctors in the US to make arrangements for treatment of Arfah Kareem, the world’s youngest Microsoft certified...
