Microsoft’s Azure operating system, codenamed “Red Dog,” was designed by a team of Microsoft OS experts including Dave Cutler, the father of VMS and Windows NT starting in latter half of the 2000s. Azure launched in February 2010 and has become the foundation of the “new” Microsoft over the past decade. In 2008, I had a chance to interview the Azure founding-team members. This month,… Source link

Dive Brief: Microsoft has acquired PromoteIQ, a startup that provides a vendor marketing and native ad platform for e-commerce retailers looking to build an advertising business on their sites, according to a blog post by PromoteIQ. Deal terms were not made public. Founded in 2012 as Spotfront with a SaaS solution called PromoteIQ, the newly acquired firm will become part of Microsoft Advertising and use its own name. PromoteIQ’s client list includes Kroger,… Source link

Microsoft has partnered with Nasdaq and Refinitiv to bring automatic pulling of stock info to Excel to enhance the experience of tracking stocks using from within Microsoft’s spreadsheet editing application. The company brought Stocks as a Data Type in Excel last year for allowing users to keep up with information such as price, change, currency, among others. The new partnership will bring real-time data tracking straight from the Nasdaq Stock Market along with the financial markets data… Source link

Microsoft has partnered with Nasdaq and Refinitiv to bring automatic pulling of stock info to Excel to enhance the experience of tracking stocks using from within Microsoft’s spreadsheet editing application. The company brought Stocks as a Data Type in Excel last year for allowing users to keep up with information such as price, change, currency, among others. The new partnership will bring real-time data tracking straight from the Nasdaq Stock Market along with the financial markets data… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft (Bing) Ads in 2024  Hootsuite Source link

Today at the annual Bing Ads Next web conference, Microsoft Bing Ads announced an expanded partnership with Verizon Media which enables Yahoo search traffic to be exclusively served by Bing Ads. This includes search traffic from the Oath Ad Platforms (previously known as Yahoo Gemini) and other partners. Soon, Bing Ads, Yahoo, and AOL will be simplified and accessible under the Bing Ads umbrella and managed in the same Bing Ads platform. According to David Pann, General Manager Global Search… Source link