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Microsoft Launches Student Edition Software in Kenya to Fight Piracy
Microsoft Corporation has launched into the market a discounted software, Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student for Africa, targeting low end and student customer portfolio. Its retailing at Ksh 4,000...
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Microsoft Organises a Girls Digital Mentorship Program
Its happening today at International School of Kenya and it’s such an inspiring bit of Tech event where Microsoft is having the DigiGirlz forum. Its a place where inspiring stories are told. Should...
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Microsoft To Release Regional Piracy Statistics
Just got a media invite for an event which is going to be conducted by Business Software Alliance . The invite says that BSA will be releasing the International Data Corporation (IDC) research report...
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Microsoft Steps Up Fight Against Software Pirates
In their fight against software piracy, the Kenya Copyright Board (KCB), Kenya Revenue Authority and Kenyan Police managed to break up a software counterfeit ring responsible for the distribution and...
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Business Software Alliance and IDC study shows software piracy rate hits 83%...
Kenya’s software piracy rate fell by one-percentage point last year to settle at 79-percent according to the seventh annual global software piracy study released by the Business Software Alliance...
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Microsoft Office 2010 Goes on Sale in Nairobi on Monday
Microsoft has announced the availability of Office 2010 suite, designed for businesses and consumers to share ideas and information across the PC, mobile phone and Web browser. The Microsoft Office...
View ArticleMicrosoft Honours 18 Teachers at 2010 Pan-African Innovative Education Forum
Following three days of interactive workshops, teacher exhibitions and judging by a renowned panel of African education experts, Microsoft Partners in Learning announced the regional winners of the...
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Mirosoft Unveils IE9 Locally after the Global Launch
Microsoft Corporation has launched its new web browser Internet Explorer 9. The company announced availability of its Beta version of the new Web browser. The new browser promises to deliver a fast,...
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Microsoft Lync Launched
Microsoft East and Southern Africa announced the general availability of Microsoft Lync in the market. The suite was formerly called Office Communications Server. You can download a trial copy of Lync...
View ArticleNokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build...
Press Release Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership that would use their complementary strengths and expertise to create a new global mobile ecosystem. Nokia...
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Nokia Rejected Android to Avoid Duopoly of iOS and Android
Nokia was prompted by a desire to foil theAndroid and iOS “duopoly” in the mobile industry to choose Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 (WP7) platform as its primary smartphone OS, rather than Android.The...
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Microsoft Unveils Windows 7 Kiswahili Language Pack
Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows 7 Kiswahili language pack downloadable for free. Kiswahili has over 5 million native speakers and more than 150 million Africans speaking Kiswahili...
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Microsoft Launches Imagine Cup 2011 Contest in Nairobi
Microsoft is trying in the best way possible to involve students in the search for solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. That is why the tech giant has been running the Imagine Cup contest...
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Manpower and Microsoft Join Forces to Unleash Potential of African Young People
Manpower is a major player in global workforce solutions, and Microsoft, is the world’s leading producer of software and software development systems. The two companies have announced that they are...
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Microsoft Unveils its Energy Efficient ITPAC to Support UN’s Greenest...
Yesterday we reportedt that Microsoft Corp was to announce its first IT pre-assembled component (ITPAC) data centre technology in Africa and the developing world. The facility was launched today by UN...
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83% of Software Deployed in PCs in East and Southern Africa are Pirated
Findings are out and East and Southern Africa leads in the piracy of Software according to Business Software Alliance (BSA) 2010 Global Software Piracy Study. BSA evaluates the state of software...
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Microsoft Launches Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 solution in Dar-es-salaam
Microsoft Corp through its local arm, Microsoft East and Southern Africa has announced the official launch and availability of Windows Multipoint Server 2011 at the ongoing eLearning Africa conference...
View ArticleMark Matunga of Microsoft East and Southern Africa Talking Education
We met Mark Matunga who is the Education Manager at Microsoft East and Southern Africa. We engaged him on a number of issues including the “partners in learning program” and the Mwalimu Kenya...
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Watch Windows 8 Boot Up in Less Than 10 Seconds
This is interesting. I have a problem with the slow booting Windows most of the time and the Windows 8 seems to be answering my prayers for a faster boo-up. Microsoft has managed to improve the...
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Microsoft Has Sold 450 Million Copies of Windows 7
Microsoft yesterday announced that it has sold more than 450 million copies of Windows 7. Microsoft president of Windows division, Steven Sinofsky, also announced in a release that Windows 7 is now...
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