Author: Microsoft Stories

The latest game in the series, Mafia 3, is going to release on Xbox One on 7th October, 2016. It looks promising, bringing a mix of real life settings, historical references, and depictions of gang life.

Microsoft is looking to expand its partner ecosystem under its Surface Enterprise Initiative and Surface-as-a-service campaign. Microsoft in its blog post said, “We have made it our mission to partner with the best in the industry to create the Surface ecosystem together. We continue to look for partners who want to be a part of the greater Surface ecosystem. There is fertile ground to be explored in this area, and we are excited to work with and through partners worldwide to create the next generation services and support capabilities.”

Bharat Sharma, a Class XII student of Shaheed Rajpal DAV Public School won Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Earth 2016, a global student technology competition. Bharat developed a game using Kodu, a visual programming language for the online competition. His game focused on ‘protecting the tuna’, and the project “Shadowing the Tuna Brats,” is based on green practices. The player uses three different cakes for fishing, to maintain a good population of tuna.

L&T Technology Services announced a Digital Engineering Transformation partnership with Microsoft Corporation to deliver Microsoft Azure Engineering Solutions for global enterprises across industries. This strategic partnership between the two companies will enable enterprises around the world to leverage L&T Technology’s cutting-edge IP-led Digital Engineering solutions hosted on Microsoft’s Azure enterprise cloud-first, mobile-first infrastructure.

PwC India has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft India to empower India’s digital transformation. This strategic partnership between Microsoft and PwC will empower the digital transformation of large and mid-sized organizations in India by leveraging Microsoft’s technology expertise and PwC’s strategy capabilities across sectors and competencies.

Microsoft’s original promise for the Xbox One centered very heavily on the promise of the cloud. Cloud gaming, we were promised, would be the path to the next generation of video games. It would enable games unlike anything seen before, and it would more than compensate for the Xbox One’s weakness on the specs front relative to the PS4.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim carried a size of just 4GB on the Xbox 360. The size of the remastered Special Edition is quite a bit larger and has a size of 22.75GB, as per the Australian Microsoft Store. In other words, when it comes to the Xbox One and the PS4, the title is about almost six times larger. The game is due to launch for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on October 28.

In the battle to dominate Europe’s cloud computing market, U.S. tech giants are spending big to build up their local credibility. Microsoft, by some measures the second-largest cloud computing provider in Europe, said that it had spent $1 billion in the past 12 months to expand its offerings, taking its total investment in European-based cloud services to $3 billion since 2005. With many in Europe questioning why the United States’ largest tech companies control how many of the region’s 500 million citizens use every day digital services, it is not surprising that the likes of Microsoft and Amazon are eager to play up their local roots.

Bengaluru-based multi-specialty hospital chain Narayana Hrudyalaya (NH) has 54 facilities all across India. At its different hospitals, the hospital carries out 650 to 700 cardiac surgeries each month. Speaking at the sidelines of a conference organized by Microsoft India last month, Kumar KV, Vice President, NH chatted with Gadgets 360 about how technology was changing the field of medicine, with immediate developments in fields such as 3D printing, along with long term projects such as the use of deep learning to improve the predictive capabilities of hospitals.

Microsoft Garage has launched a new application called Trip Tracker for Android users. The application is designed to automatically track your trips and create entries for each one of those entries with information. This information would typically consist of start and end time, duration of the stay and path the user has taken. “Trip Tracker, a Microsoft Garage project, is a free app that automatically records your drives, runs, walks, and bike rides. The app works in the background, and will auto detect when your activity has started,” Microsoft explains.