Author: Microsoft Stories

A major update to Microsoft’s Windows 10 system will start reaching consumers and businesses on April 11, offering 3-D drawing tools, game-broadcasting capabilities and better ways to manage your web browsing. This “Creators Update” also aims to make future updates less disruptive.

Advancing its efforts to digitally transform education in the country, Microsoft India rolled out #TeachYourChildren programme. Powered by MASP Suite (Microsoft Aspire School Program Suite), the value-based offering aims to equip schools with an integrated set of technology and innovative learning solutions, modernize their campuses, and prepare future-ready students. “We are confident that schools across India will be able to empower both teachers and students, and reap tremendous benefits with the adoption of MASP,” said Amit Kumar, General Manager, Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners, Microsoft India.

Microsoft will begin rolling out the latest iteration of its operating system on April 11, and also it has confirmed that mixed reality (MR) support will be included. It will be free for all Windows 10 owners.

Advancing its efforts to digitally transform education in the country, Microsoft India rolled out #TeachYourChildren programme. Powered by MASP Suite (Microsoft Aspire School Program Suite), the value-based offering aims to equip schools with an integrated set of technology and innovative learning solutions, modernize their campuses, drive transformation for enhanced learning experiences and prepare future-ready students.

Samsung Galaxy S8, S8+, which is customized by Microsoft will have the whole suite of Microsoft apps. This includes Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Office suite. The phone will be available for pre-orders from Microsoft retail stores in the US, according to a report on The Verge. It will officially go on sale on April 21.

According to the statistics provided by NetMarketShare for the month of March 2017 shows that Windows is not only the leading choice for desktop computers across the world, but it is at a level where Microsoft has nothing to be worried about not being the top desktop operating system.

Microsoft is rolling out a big update for the Xbox One, which features an updated dashboard, the new Xbox Guide, and the Beam streaming service. First revealed back in January, the UI changes are meant to overhaul an experience that suffered with buried controls, and not-so-great performance.

A free app named “Arrow” from Microsoft, available for Android smartphones, is just one example of how Microsoft continues to operate in the mobile space.

As Europe’s industrial companies attempt to modernize production with sensors and software, Microsoft Corp. is launching a new lab in Munich – following openings in Redmond, Washington and Shenzhen, China – for customers investing in the Internet of Things, the idea that everything from refrigerators to industrial robots will be connected to the web.