Author: Microsoft Stories

LinkedIn is putting a bigger price tag on its user data. Today (March 21) it launched a new subscription for its Sales Navigator product, used to contact prospective customers, for $1,600 per user annually.

Microsoft has introduced new software that allows users to make an easy switch from a Mac to Surface devices. The software called Mac to Surface Assistant helps in easy transition from macOS to Windows 10, if the need so arises.

Microsoft is looking to eradicate preventive blindness, through the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINE) which will help redefine eyecare by bringing together the power of technology and knowledge of global experts. Anil Bhansali, Managing Director, Microsoft India (R&D), says, “This will include the rate of change of myopia in children, conditions that impact children’s eyesight, predictive outcomes of refractive surgery, optimal surgery parameters as well as ways to personalize a surgery and maximize its probability of success.”

Microsoft Corp and Adobe Systems Inc are joining to make their respective sales and marketing software products more potent competitors to Salesforce.com Inc and Oracle Corp offerings, the two firms said. On the eve of San Jose, California-based Adobe’s annual user conference, the company said that it will work with Microsoft to create a shared data format between Adobe’s marketing software suite, which the company is re-naming its Experience Cloud, and Microsoft’s sales software, called Dynamics, allowing the software systems to work together seamlessly.

The article presents the review of the game ‘Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands’ which is available on Xbox one. If one loves tactical shooters, then Wildlands is a gorgeous game one can dive into. While it gets repetitive, it’s a lot of fun to see how the world reacts to each mission differently.

The final edition of ‘Codess’, a global engineering platform for women initiated by Microsoft, was held at the Microsoft India Development Centre in Hyderabad, recently. Charumathy Srinivasan, Partner Group Engineering Manager-Cloud and Enterprise Division said that Microsoft has organised the programme to develop capabilities and skills of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) areas. The event this year received a total of 1,200 plus applications from 40 colleges across the country. In addition to ‘Codess Microsoft also offers a programme called DigiGirlz for school girls.

As computer science becomes increasingly important to people’s careers in our fast-changing world, it’s important that no one is left far behind because of physical and mental challenges. To address that, Microsoft has developed Project Torino, a system consisting of a programming language and large colorful toys called pods, which can be used to make sounds, stories, poems, and songs in order to teach coding concepts to children with visual impairments.

Over four months after its official launch, Project Olympus by Microsoft has finalized its future moves and expanded the open source hardware development by adding semiconductor manufacturers like NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, AMD and Cavium. The new development is aimed to bring a full-fledged cloud hardware closer to the open source community.

The Industrial Design Centre (IDC) in IIT Bombay has designed Swarachakra, a free Indian language keyboard for Android phones. Swarachakra is available in 12 Indian languages, and is integrated with the Better Together framework, which allows users to run an application on multiple phones at the same time. The Better Together toolkit and Swarachakra keyboard will be unveiled at the Microsoft Research in Bangalore.

Microsoft is introducing text-to-speech/speech-to-text options for both Xbox One and Windows 10 PCs. By enabling this option, the voice chat of the other players will be automatically transcribed into text at the side of the screen in real time.