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Republic, Arnab Goswami’s media technology venture, announced Microsoft India as its technology partner. “We look forward to working with the team at Republic to make this news platform a success in the market. Innovations in news formats and employing new means of storytelling are some of Republic’s value propositions. We are extremely excited to power this digital transformation in the media and entertainment space with integrated hardware and software experiences,” said, Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India.

Google and Microsoft are both benefiting from solid growth in enterprise cloud services. Both companies released earnings reports this week that highlighted significant momentum in G Suite, Office Suite, respectively, and more sophisticated cloud platforms for business. “We crossed a major milestone with more than 100 million monthly active users of Office 365 commercial,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The company ended the quarter with 26.2 million Office 365 consumer subscribers.

Microsoft India HR Director Ira Gupta in an exclusive interaction with Debashis Sarkar of News18.com talked about the importance of creating a diverse and inclusive environment to attract and retain talented employees. Microsoft started its operations in India in 1990, has its footprints across 10 cities in the country and a workforce of over 7,000 employees.

In an interview, Norm Judah, Chief Technology Officer of Worldwide Services, Microsoft, said, “The steps taken are positive. According to our recent survey, digital transformation in education revealed that problem solving, collaboration and digital literacy are among the top skills required by students to adapt to future workplaces and for teachers it was about transformation in teaching and learning experiences.”

Microsoft is seeing success with Windows 10 OS and it recently launched its Creators Update for desktops and laptops. Turns out Microsoft is now rolling out the Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update to supported handsets.

Women in Technology (WIT), a joint initiative between the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) and WPG (the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group) is exploring the possibility of conducting webinars related to technology awareness. These webinars will be focused on Girl Students in colleges, Underprivileged Girls or General Partner Community.

‘Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite’ is going to release on Xbox One on 19th September 2017. For the first time in franchise history, the Marvel and Capcom universes will collide in a visually stunning and immersive cinematic Story Mode, as heroes and villains battle together to save their merged worlds from a sinister new threat, Ultron Sigma.

Microsoft has recently announced new tools and resources to help organizations tap into the power of the hybrid cloud to optimize their business. However, cloud-first is no more restricted to cloud-only, since not all customers – especially large enterprises or highly regulated organizations – are ready or able to move fully to public cloud for a variety of valid reasons like latency concerns, industry regulation, data sovereignty, and customization.

Migration to Windows 10 is expected to be faster than previous operating system (OS) adoption, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The six-country survey, which includes India, Forty-nine percent of respondents mentioned security improvements, and cloud integration capabilities (38 percent) were the reasons to migrate.