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Microsoft in partnership with the Abu Dhabi Smart Solution Services Authority (ADSSSA) host Innovation Summit. An event that brought together innovators, business leader and IT decision makers. Conversations on the day centered on using Artificial Intelligence, hybrid cloud, data management and compliance. To drive digital transformation and promote economic development
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Microsoft through its business and market development engine in Africa, 4Afrika is partnering with the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The collaboration will see Microsoft co-create technology solutions in agriculture. Supporting AGRA’s digital transformation initiative to improve food security in Africa. In a report, continued use of outdated
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Microsoft is inviting developers and software architects to a one day training event in Lagos. Microsoft is hosting a free one day Microsoft Azure Training Day event for developers and software architects. The training will be on migrating applications to the cloud. The training is scheduled to take place 13th September
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Microsoft announces thirty one new Azure edge sites. Bringing its cloud customers a faster network and their consumers increased satisfaction. The announced sites will include new edge sites in Kenya and Nigeria. With upcoming sites in Egypt, Turkey and Israel later. The sites will be located in Nairobi, Lagos, Cairo
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Our co-founder Christopher Bennett was invited to participate in a training program last year at the Microsoft office in Nairobi, Kenya. The training gave more insight of Microsoft's Software Asset Management program to partners from across Africa. https://youtu.be/zUV6UC_Z25g What is Software Asset Management? Software Asset Management (SAM) is a set of proven IT
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In a new partnership, Zindi will use Microsoft's cloud computing service Azure to power their platform. Social enterprise Zindi is on a mission to build the data science ecosystem of Africa. Building Africa's first data science competition platform in the process. Microsoft is partnering with Zindi. Offering to power Zindi's data
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Help rural farmers in Africa predict soil humidity using sensor data from IoT. Wazihub and Microsoft are partnering with Zindi Africa to create the Wazihub Soil Moisture Prediction Challenge competition. The competition seeks to create a machine learning model capable of predicting soil humidity. Using past data from the soil and
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Microsoft used its latest mixed reality capture technology to create an on stage human sized hologram. Well this isn't new. What is new this time around is that the hologram from the demo below was speaking Japanese. A language Microsoft CVP, Azure Marketing doesn't speak. Using mixed reality and Azure
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Four years ago, on the 29th of July 2015, Microsoft globally launched Windows 10. The latest version of its operating system(OS) for users of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Window 8 Mobile. Introducing a much more user friendly OS with innovations, features and security capabilities. Satya Nadella who had
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Want to get some real work experience from a top tech giant? Working on innovations that will impact others. Do you have a passion for technology and an analytical thinker? And oh do you consider yourself curious? Then check out the Microsoft Internship Opportunity Dubai for full qualifications and apply
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