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Microsoft has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as a Premium sponsor. The new development has happened months after the Redmond company entered the membership agreement with the Linux Foundation and is another significant effort to ensure a feeling of good faith with open source contributors.

In an interview, Telecom Sector Skill Council (TSSC) CEO S P Kochhar said, “SSC has signed MoU with Microsoft India to drive skill development through ‘Project Sangam’. He said “We believe Microsoft’s programmes, tools and resources will empower the telecom sector professionals with new-age competencies and narrow the existing gap between demand and supply of skills.”

Microsoft is working relentlessly towards creating more and more immersive mixed reality content for end consumers. Microsoft now has three video creation studios where it creates holographic content for the HoloLens headset which is a hardware solution for mixed reality.

The Forbes India Leaders Speak Digital Transformation series, powered by Microsoft, sought to understand how companies and institutions in the financial sector adopt new technologies available at various levels of their business.

Microsoft has announced that it is rolling out a new Skype update for desktop and Mac users on 30 October. The new version of Skype for desktop was available in the Preview since August. The changes include a customizable theme where the user can choose between different color options.

Companies like advertising giant Publicis, software developer Bentley Systems and biopharmaceutical company Parexel have all chosen Azure over AWS.

For Microsoft, people are the driving strength of business, and the company firmly believes in the potential of each individual to make a difference.

Technology giant Microsoft runs an elite cyber security center in the heart of Delhi. Named the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DCU), the Delhi facility is only the seventh such operation across the world for the Redmond giant and is increasingly playing a vital role in world of cyber security.

To empower farmers with technology-oriented solutions like Cloud, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics, Karnataka government on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft India.