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2021
Xbox Ultimate Game Sale offers discounts on games and accessories
Microsoft offered deals on hundreds of Xbox and PC games and accessories through its Ultimate Game Sale, which the article says runs until August 5.
2021
Microsoft announces plan to acquire CloudKnox Security
Microsoft said it would acquire CloudKnox Security, a startup whose platform addresses security risks in public-cloud environments. The article does not report that the acquisition was completed.
2021
Vectra AI and Microsoft announce Zero Trust integration
Vectra AI announced that its Cognito platform delivers Zero Trust capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure customers, integrating threat detection and visibility into the framework.
2021
Aisera partners with Microsoft for AI service desk solutions
Aisera became a member of the Microsoft for Startups program and partnered with Microsoft to deliver AI-based service desk solutions. The companies said they would offer AI Service Desk on Azure and on Teams.
2021
Microsoft announces acquisition of CloudKnox
Microsoft said it was acquiring cloud security start-up CloudKnox. The deal terms were not made public.
2021
Microsoft rolls out redesigned emoji
Microsoft's redesigned emoji were already available on Flipgrid; the article said they would arrive on Teams and Windows later that year and on Yammer, Outlook and other places the following year.
2021
TCS wins two 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) won the Azure Intelligent Cloud award in France and the Dynamics 365 Field Service award in the US in Microsoft's 2021 Partner of the Year Awards.
2021
Microsoft announces Dynamics 365 Business Central launch in six markets
Microsoft announced that its cloud-based business management solution, Dynamics 365 Business Central, would launch in Nigeria, Kenya, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, and Lebanon beginning that month.
2021
Microsoft announced the planned launch of Windows 365
Microsoft announced Windows 365, a cloud service providing the Windows operating system, and said it would launch on August 2. The launch was planned, not yet completed in the report.
2021
Swisscom wins Global IoT Award
Swisscom won the Global IoT Award in the IoT category at the Microsoft Partner Awards for its digitised track-construction project with Rhomberg Sersa Rail Group.
2021
Microsoft completes acquisition of RiskIQ
Microsoft announced that it had acquired cybersecurity company RiskIQ. The article reported that Microsoft did not disclose the purchase price; Bloomberg reported it exceeded $500 million.
2021
Microsoft announces acquisition of RiskIQ
Microsoft announced that it was acquiring RiskIQ, a security software vendor. The article reports no deal value from Microsoft.
2021
Microsoft tests a visual update for Edge on Windows 11
Microsoft is testing a visual update for its Edge browser intended to make its appearance more consistent with Windows 11; the reported changes include some menus and browser windows.
2021
Tarsus On Demand wins Microsoft South Africa Partner of the Year
Tarsus On Demand was awarded the 2021 Microsoft South Africa Partner of the Year Award for providing solutions and services in South Africa.
2021
Microsoft and weshineapp.com enable GIFs for Chinese Windows Insiders
Through a collaboration with weshineapp.com, GIFs from the site became available to Chinese Windows Insiders through the emoji panel when their location is set to China.
2021
Zip and Microsoft partner on BNPL payments in Australia
Zip and Microsoft launched a partnership allowing customers in Australia to purchase Microsoft products through interest-free instalment payment plans using Zip single-use digital credit cards.
2021
Catalyte wins 2021 Microsoft Inclusion Changemaker Award
Catalyte announced that it won the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Inclusion Changemaker Award, recognizing its solutions and services in that category.
2021
Black Women Talk Tech announces sponsors for Roadmap to Billions
Black Women Talk Tech announced sponsor additions for its virtual Roadmap to Billions conference. The release identifies The Estée Lauder Companies and Google as sponsors of the pitch competition and lists additional companies as sponsors of the conference.
2021
Department of Basic Education and Microsoft partner on digital-skills training
South Africa’s Department of Basic Education partnered with Microsoft to provide digital-skills training to 25,000 unemployed young people. The training ran until the end of March 2021.
2021
Microsoft discloses Nobelium cyberattack and employee-account compromise
Microsoft reported a cyberattack campaign attributed to Nobelium and said the group had compromised Microsoft employee accounts and taken software instructions governing how Microsoft verifies user identities. Microsoft said it removed the access and secured the affected device.