Author: Microsoft Stories

Microsoft will be detailing more of their upcoming Xbox One Scorpio, ahead of its Holiday 2017 launch. Xbox’s Mike Ybarra confirmed that development on the Scorpio is ‘going well,’.

Microsoft’s work in 2016 stood out like a shining beacon for the tech masses with the Surface Studio being the most exciting gadget of 2016.

iBall has launched its ‘iBall CompBook i360’, a touchscreen and 360°Convertible laptop at an unheard price of Rs. 12,999/- only. Powered by Windows 10 and a 1.84 GHz Intel® Quad Core Processor, the iBall CompBook i360 is more than just a laptop.

Noted stalwarts from the biz world announced the successful culmination of the World Business Conclave 2016 (Hong Kong) at a Press Meet organized in New Delhi. The conclave is a coveted business rostrum for knowledge sharing and ideation of business culture with participation from Microsoft, Mullen Lowe Lintas Group, PwC, Baidu and more.

Microsoft is constantly looking at ways to make it easier for its customer to manage their workloads in the cloud. Now Microsoft will be the first major hyper scale vendor to offer an SLA availability commitment on single instance VMs on Azure. This will enable businesses to move even more workloads into Azure and take advantage of the agility of the cloud without compromising on your expectations of availability.

With January 2017 offering lots to anticipate in respect to the release of new Xbox 360 backwards compatible titles, it is only natural that gamers would like to take a look at some of the most eye-catching Xbox 360 games that have already joined the backwards compatibility fray.

Microsoft was in the news for all the right reasons throughout 2016. It beat expectations and racked up more than 400 million Windows 10 installs by the end of September, launched a rival to Slack and even a program to create low-cost VR headsets.

Code.org, with support from Microsoft, Facebook, Infosys and many others have invested in a global movement, ‘The Hour of Code’, reaching over 100 million students in over 180 countries. Vidyanidhi Info Tech Academy (VITA) at Vile Parle, Mumbai, hosted the ‘Hour Of Code’ event during the computer science education week in December for their students as well as for the students of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Gandhigram school.

State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, is reportedly in talks with Microsoft to utilize technology that will enable digital banking in rural areas with little access to telecom networks. Microsoft is looking to implement its ‘white space’ and ‘wide area WiFi or Wide-Fi’ technologies, that taps unutilized spectrum of television stations and cable TV network for internet access.

Microsoft Surface Phone is rumored to release in 2017. The phone features 5.7 inch AMOLED Quad HD display, Gorilla Glass 4 protection, Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 chipset, 21 MP rear camera & 8 MP front camera with Carl Zeiss wide angled lens and Surface pen and keyboard integrated in the flip cover.