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  • Microsoft to open flagship Pitt Street Mall store in Sydney

    Microsoft to open flagship Pitt Street Mall store in Sydney

    Pitt Street Mall in Sydney has morphed into the playground of the rich and famous, with Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates, said to be the latest international name to have signed up a flagship store along the strip.

    In the most recent Main Streets Around the World survey by Cushman & Wakefield, Pitt Street Mall was named the fifth most expensive strip in terms of rent, and only sits behind New York’s Upper Fifth Avenue, London’s Bond Street and Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay. The average rent is about AUD10,000 (USD7787) per square metre, per annum.

    It is said the computer giant’s first major site in the country will be where the Guess was and could even spill over to the next-door space which was, until recently, leased by Cue. If the two stores are leased the site will total about 650 square metres over two levels.

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  • Alibaba: Microsoft, Amazon are friends – not rivals

    Alibaba: Microsoft, Amazon are friends – not rivals

    Amazon and Microsoft are “friends” not rivals of Alibaba in the cloud computing space, a top exec at the Chinese e-commerce giant told CNBC.

    The comments come just a few days after Alibaba opened a data centre in Silicon Valley – its first on US turf in a cloud market dominated by Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

    But Ethan Yu, the international head of Alibaba’s cloud division, Aliyun, told CNBC that the company was not in competition with its US counterparts.

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  • Microsoft helps Big C to deploy cloud solution at its supermarkets

    Microsoft helps Big C to deploy cloud solution at its supermarkets

    US technology giant Microsoft Corp signed an enterprise agreement with Big C in Ho Chi Minh City on 6 February to deploy cloud solution “Office 365” in Big C’s supermarket chains.

    The cloud solution is expected to enhance the quality of customer service by optimising operation costs and boosting system capacity, while ensuring safety and security at the same time.

    Starting in Vietnam in 1998, the Big C supermarket chain currently has 30 commercial centres and supermarkets in 20 cities and provinces in the country.

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  • TGI Fridays partners with Microsoft on tablets to streamline orders

    TGI Fridays partners with Microsoft on tablets to streamline orders

    TGI Fridays Inc. is equipping servers with 8-inch tablets so they can quickly and accurately process orders and payments while at the table.

    The devices use Windows 8.1, running Oracle’s MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Solution (RES) 5.4 on Oracle’s MICROS mTablet E-Series mobile point of sale devices.

    Servers can carry these tablets from table to table to take orders and respond promptly to guest requests. It improves table wait and helps regulate the pace of orders sent to the kitchen.

    “TGI Fridays is rethinking how technology can lead to restaurant innovation,” said Tracy Issel, general manager of Worldwide Retail, Consumer Goods, Hospitality and Travel for Microsoft. “We are helping it change the way food orders are processed and wait staff and managers do their jobs, reinventing the customer experience, one restaurant at a time.

    Many restaurant technology solutions rely on proprietary hardware or custom ruggedized devices, built to withstand the abuse of a kitchen environment. Such solutions can be expensive and take a long time to develop and deploy.

    Oracle’s MICROS RES 5.4 allows TGI Fridays to manage the various aspects of running a restaurant, from tableside ordering to traffic and queue management, all from one solution and in a much more cost-effective way.

    “Windows 8 gave us a platform that allowed us to develop a new user interface, which gives our servers even better tools to delight our guests and make their experience even more enjoyable,” said TGI Fridays Vice President and CIO Tripp Sessions.

  • Microsoft partners with Alibaba to enhance IP protection for its products

    Microsoft partners with Alibaba to enhance IP protection for its products

    An agreement between Microsoft (China) and Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Alibaba Group) is expected to enhance the protection of Microsoft’s intellectual property rights (IPR) on the two most popular e-commerce platforms in China operated by Alibaba – Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com.

    The cooperation is also expected to strengthen anti-counterfeit measures already in place on both platforms.

    Both sides said they will work to raise awareness among consumers about the threats posed by counterfeit and unlicensed software to their information security, privacy and personal data.

    Tim Cranton, Microsoft’s Associate General Counsel and Greater China Region’s Chief Legal Counsel, said legitimate businesses and innovators in China will also benefit from a safer and more robust e-commerce marketplace with safeguards to protect intellectual property rights.

    Under the agreement, Taobao and Tmall will remove product listings suspected of offering counterfeit or unlicensed Microsoft products. Alibaba Group and its associated companies like Alipay will cooperate with relevant parties and provide necessary information to those consumers who mistakenly buy unauthorized software to receive compensation from the sellers according to relevant laws.

    Microsoft’s cooperation with Alibaba Group dates back to April 2007 when Microsoft signed a memorandum of understanding with Alisoft as the two parties joined hands in providing information service for small- and medium-sized businesses.

    In December 2013, Microsoft launched its flagship online store on Tmall.com, the largest e-commerce platform in China with to promote genuine Microsoft software.

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