Xiaomi’s phones to come preloaded with Microsoft Office and Skype

By Hitech Century | June 7, 2016 |

Xiaomi and Microsoft have announced that they have expanded their global partnership. Starting from September 2016, Xiaomi’s Mi 5, Mi Max, Mi 4S, Redmi Note 3 and Redmi 3 will come preinstalled with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Skype. The phones will continue to run Android though they will have Microsoft’s productivity suite preinstalled.…

Microsoft’s new SQL Server 2016 release heralds a new age for data analytics

By Hitech Century | April 22, 2016 |

Since time immemorial, man has always sought to categorise and derive meaning from data. From the earliest efforts with teams of scribes painstakingly recording a kingdom’s harvest to today’s football sized server farms that record millions of financial transactions that occur every minute, one thing is clear – there’s more data than ever and it…