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Microsoft outage halted work all over the world; services of flights, banks, media and companies were affected

Microsoft Outage: On Friday, blue screens in computers running Microsoft‘s Windows 10 operating system brought the entire world to a halt. As a result, numerous countries were forced to cancel flights, hospital and financial systems fell, and media outlets stopped operating. Worldwide businesses and services have been impacted by this outage.

It had a profound effect on Indian life as well. As a result, over 200 flight services were disrupted, causing significant issues for travelers in numerous locations such as Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, and Chennai. Simultaneously, the activities of stock market broker agencies have also been impacted, leading to issues with stock trading.

#WATCH | On Microsoft global outage, Dr Sanjay Bahl, DG, Indian Computer Emergency Response Team says, "…It is a technical glitch. Because if you look at cyber security it consists of three things, confidentiality, integrity and availability. It has affected the availability… pic.twitter.com/1il3eSNqBw
— ANI (@ANI) July 19, 2024

Dr. Sanjay Bahl, the Director General of the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, comments on the Microsoft global outage, saying, “This is a technical glitch.” Because confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the three aspects of cyber security. The factor of availability has been impacted. Thus, other than availability, nothing has been impacted. In comparison to Western nations, it had virtually little effect in India. The reason for this is that many individuals haven’t bought it as a tool for their protection because it needs to be purchased separately. People choose to use competitor products rather than CrowdStrike because they are readily available.”

Microsoft claimed that CrowdStrike, a third-party provider of cyber security software, was to blame for this issue. In an attempt to strengthen Windows 10’s defense against cyberattacks, CrowdStrike upgraded the operating system. However, due to a lack of technical coordination, thousands of machines’ screens eventually became blue (blue screen).

Microsoft Bing’s new ‘Deep Search’ feature, adept at answering complex questions

OpenAI‘s GPT-4 is powering a new “Deep Search” feature coming to Microsoft Bing. The purpose of the function is to provide users with more thorough and pertinent responses to challenging search queries.

Microsoft notes that Deep Search is not a replacement for Bing’s existing web search, and is instead an enhancement that allows for deeper exploration of the web.

Microsoft describes the new feature in a blog post. It improves upon Bing’s existing web index and ranking engine by using GPT-4, which takes the search query and transforms it into a more detailed description of what should be included in the results.

When your search query is more unclear, Deep Search will identify all potential meanings and provide a thorough description for each one. After that, Deep Search shows you these intentions so you may choose the appropriate one.

#Microsoft creates ‘Deep Search’ feature for Bing powered by GPT-4

Read: https://t.co/uubCgqGZK5 pic.twitter.com/h3HsgD4KGR
— IANS (@ians_india) December 6, 2023

Microsoft announces new round of layoffs and cuts 275 jobs

Microsoft announced a new round of job layoffs on Monday morning, affecting a variety of customer care, support, and sales positions. Microsoft is reportedly slashing close to 275 positions, per a GeekWire story.

The 10,000 global layoffs that Microsoft initially announced on January 18 are not included in these reductions.

For Microsoft, whose fiscal year 2023 ended on June 30, making the decision to restructure some of its operations as it begins a new fiscal year is not unusual.

#Microsoft has laid off 276 employees, mostly in customer service, support and sales teams, in a new job cut round. #layoffs pic.twitter.com/Gy82IMrVPW
— IANS (@ians_india) July 11, 2023

Microsoft testing File Explorer UI and dynamic lighting feature for Windows 11

For Windows 11, the tech giant Microsoft has begun developing a new File Explorer user interface, Dynamic Lighting, and many more features. In the Dev Channel, new features are currently being rolled out to Windows Insiders.

WinUI is what powers the “modernised” File Explorer Home, the tech giant claimed in a blog post on Wednesday.

“Recommended files for users signed into Windows with an Azure Active Directory (AAD) account will be displayed as a carousel and support file thumbnails, which is coming soon,” the statement continued.

Users of Windows and developers are given native control over Lighting Devices by the Dynamic Lighting feature.

Tech giant #Microsoft has started testing a new File Explorer UI, Dynamic Lighting feature and much more, for #Windows11. pic.twitter.com/nXIGXKVEIr
— IANS (@ians_india) June 8, 2023

Open source software platform GitHub announces Kyle Daigle as chief operating officer

The open-source software platform GitHub, owned by Microsoft, named Kyle Daigle its first COO since 2021 on Thursday.

At the moment, Daigle works closely with CEO Thomas Dohmke as Vice President of Strategy and Chief of Staff to the CEO.

The open-source development platform already has 100 million users worldwide and is rapidly expanding in India, where it has over 10 million users who are developers.

Additionally, GitHub is introducing Copilot for documents. This experimental service employs a chat interface to offer users AI-generated answers to queries regarding documentation, including queries from developers about the languages, frameworks, and technologies they are utilizing, the business stated.

#Microsoft-owned open source software platform #GitHub announced #KyleDaigle as Chief Operating Officer (COO), the company's first since 2021. pic.twitter.com/yuiHyEMZF6
— IANS (@ians_india) April 27, 2023

Microsoft continues a third round of layoffs including employees in supply chain, cloud, IoT biz

A third round of layoffs at Microsoft affected workers in positions connected to the supply chain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the internet of things (IoT).

The third round of layoffs, according to CRN, is a component of the 10,000 job reduction announced by Microsoft earlier this year.

According to the report, which cited the corporation, job losses occurred at different levels, functions, teams, and geographical locations.

According to Washington state records, the software firm informed its home state on Monday that 689 of its employees had been permanently laid off. Microsoft’s offices in Redmond, Bellevue, and Issaquah are affected by the layoffs.

#Microsoft has conducted a third round of job cuts that impacted employees in roles related to supply chain, #ArtificialIntelligence & Internet of Things (IoT).

According to CRN, the third wave of #layoffs are part of the 10,000 job cuts announced by Microsoft earlier this year. pic.twitter.com/U1WDl7oEkR
— IANS (@ians_india) March 11, 2023

Microsoft introduces Kosmos-1, a new AI model to compete with ChatGPT

Microsoft has revealed Kosmos-1, a new AI model, as the battle over chatbots with artificial intelligence (AI) has intensified in recent months. In addition to text-based instructions or messages, the new model can also react to visual cues or visuals.

The user can benefit from a variety of new tasks, such as visual question answering and image captioning, with the multimodal large language model (MLLM). Beyond ChatGPT‘s text prompts, Kosmos-1 might pave the path for the subsequent step.

As the war over #artificialintelligence (AI) chatbots heat up, #Microsoft has unveiled Kosmos-1, a new AI model that can also respond to visual cues or images, apart from text prompts or messages. pic.twitter.com/ZnIbeK9PYI
— IANS (@ians_india) March 3, 2023

Microsoft Introduces a New Viva Engage App Similar to Facebook, Know How It Makes Work Culture Easier

Microsoft has unveiled a brand-new Facebook-like Viva Engage app within Teams. Viva Engage has a Facebook-like vibe. It promotes workplace camaraderie, self-expression, and online chit-chat. This has a storyline part where you may contribute conversational articles, movies, images, and other things.

The Facebook News Feed and Viva Engage’s Story Line sections both function similarly. Its goal is to provide a Facebook-like experience at work. People can use Facebook and Workplace here. It can be used by staff to disseminate news or items of interest.

Users will be able to share stories

Microsoft Teams has established itself as the standard platform for workplace collaboration and communication, and staff members from all operating channels have embraced Teams quickly. Teams have also added social networking services for these employees at the same time. Additionally, Viva Engage will include stories. Employees will be able to share stories using Microsoft Teams and Viva Engage in a manner similar to how they do it on Instagram.

Hybrid work culture flourished

Without a question, the hybrid work culture has evolved significantly as a result of the corona pandemic. The demand for tools like Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Slack has surged as a result of the hybrid work culture. There has been a rapid growth in the use and adoption of Microsoft Teams.

Google will discontinue its old messaging service on June 16, know its name here

Google Talk Hangouts, its instant messaging service, is going to shut down. It was reported to Android Police Report. Google Talk Hangouts was introduced in 2005. Several years ago, back in 2017, GTalk was halted and users were advised to use Google Hangouts instead. Though third-party apps for Pidgim and Gajim allowed users to access this messaging app, this service is closing down as of June 16, 2022.

During that time, Google Talk competed directly with Skype and MSN. Voice and video calls were introduced through GoogleTalk. For a few days, this service was popular, but then in 2017 people were recommended to use Google Hangouts instead.

In 2020, Google Hangouts was renamed Google Chat and Google Chat for Workspaces was introduced to replace the original Hangouts.

According to the support page for Google Talk, the company is discontinuing the service, and third-party apps will no longer be supported. Users who attempt to access this Google Talk Hangouts service after June 16 will see an error message.

This service is also stopping

As far as other matters are concerned, Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer web browser will be closed from today (June 15). Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was first introduced with Windows 95 PC in 1995. It was initially a paid service but later became free.

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Samsung will also enter the Metaverse after many other big brands

Samsung has been eyeing things like the Metaverse and robotics to be future-ready. In addition to acquiring companies in the artificial intelligence, 5G, and automotive electronics sectors, the company is also looking to expand its portfolio. In addition to announcing its long-term company vision, Samsung also held a general shareholders meeting this week.

As the vice-chairman and co-CEO of the company, Han Jong-hee, pointed out at a meeting at the company’s headquarters, “We will develop Metaverse devices and solutions enabling users to access the Metaverse anytime and anywhere.”

According to South Korean news outlet Hankyung, Samsung Electronics has announced that its move into the metaverse will remain, as experts predict future growth owing to the weak performance of the company’s stock and signs of a shortage.

Moreover, Samsung has not made any significant acquisitions since 2016, so some say its future preparations are lax like those of its competitors. You may be interested in knowing that the company acquired Harman in 2016 for $ 80 million (roughly Rs 60,640 crore).

In a recent interview with Korea JoongAng Daily, the company’s vice chairman revealed that the Metaverse project motivated the company to produce new hardware. Though Han provided too little information for speculation, it is believed that Samsung could join Meta and Microsoft is placing a big bet on it.

‘Please wait until the Metaverse device launches because we are hard at work,’ said Han, the head of both mobile communications and consumer electronics at Samsung Electronics.