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Microsoft has introduced two nifty features to Outlook on the Web – Like and @Mentions. The new tools, inspired from Facebook and Twitter respectively, are meant to increase user participation on email threads and to highlight important mails. Microsoft has already started rolling out the Like feature to Office 365 First Release customers whose Office 365 plan includes Exchange Online.

After announcing the opening of three data centres in India, Microsoft says the time is ripe now for the Indian government to formulate a clear policy for public cloud services. “Till now, government held the view that it will not be on public cloud due to the fact that data goes outside the country. Now that we have local data centres, what is required is a clear policy environment by the government on the use of public cloud by government agencies,” said Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Microsoft India

Debuted at Microsoft’s AzureCon virtual event, the Azure Container Service, which will be available for preview by the end of the year, is an open source container scheduling and orchestration service that builds on Microsoft’s partnerships with both Docker and Mesosphere. The service leverages Docker and Apache Mesos to deliver an open source environment for running container workloads.”Container technologies are changing the way apps are built, deployed and run,” said Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President for Azure.

The Apple CEO sat down for a fireside chat with Box CEO Aaron Levie at the BoxWorks conference. He said, that Apple can’t go into the enterprise market alone, and that partnerships with enterprise software companies were pivotal. The CEO mentioned Apple’s recent partnerships with IBM, Cisco, Microsoft and Box as ways to tap into the “deep vertical knowledge” and expertise required to make business-specific apps for different industries. “Apple and Microsoft still compete, but we can partner on more things than we compete on. And that’s what customers want.”

Tata Communications said it has teamed up with Microsoft Corporation to boost employee productivity and streamline business processes with cloud- based communication and collaboration. The telecommunications and internet service provider arm of the Tata Group said the partnership aims to connect businesses to ‘Office 365’, a group of software plus services subscriptions by Microsoft that provides productivity software and related services to its subscribers.

Microsoft Corp joined Amazon.com Inc and Intel Corp in tweaking the way it reports results, a move that will help the software giant show off its growing cloud and mobile businesses. Microsoft said it will report revenue and operating income based on three businesses – Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing starting this quarter.“This reporting structure aligns the company’s goals with the way they will report it to the Street,” FBR & Co analyst Daniel Ives said.

Skype is rolling out an update for its Android app that brings Android Wear support. The updated Skype 6.4 is now available to download via Google Play and majorly brings Android Wear compatibility. The Skype Team announced that the latest update will allow users to manage conversations on Android Wear devices such as the Moto 360, Huawei Watch, LG Watch Urbane, or the Asus ZenWatch.

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In an interview, Ravi Narayan, Microsoft Ventures, India, said, “It’s a time of euphoria for the ecosystem. We have been waiting for this to happen. I have been wanting to inject this whole start-up energy into the ecosystem and to create those enablers in the ecosystem and also get a lot of people to get into this mentoring mode especially people who have come from US and other countries where they have built this kind of companies themselves.”

Microsoft has now offered explanations to assure users that its latest operating system doesn’t put anyone’s privacy and personal information at risk. “From the very beginning, we designed Windows 10 with two straightforward privacy principles in mind,” Terry Myerson, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group said. The company has also updated its Windows 10 services preferences FAQ pages to be clearer on the privacy front.