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Microsoft and Disney are giving away an exciting range of games worth more than Rs 1,000 between June 10 and 17. Read on to see which Windows Phone apps can be downloaded at no charge!

Two students from Pune, Abhishek Dedhe and Aalok Sathe, who won the National Panini Linguistics Olympiad recently, will now represent India in the International Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) in Bulgaria next month. Microsoft Research, India is supporting the Indian team for the international leg. The Olympiad is organized to further the fields of mathematical, theoretical and descriptive linguistics.

Microsoft’s India Strategy Head Anil K. Reddy Talks to BW Smart Cities about a unique partnership and the endless possibilities that IoT offers, at the recent launch of the Digital Service Cloud – iYogi’s Open IoT Platform on Azure.

To help enterprise customers better manage applications sprawled across hybrid clouds, Microsoft has purchased BlueStripe Software, a provider of technology for watching over distributed applications.”BlueStripe’s enterprise-class solution enables IT professionals to move from monitoring IT at the infrastructure level to gaining visibility into applications at the transaction level,” said Mike Neil, General Manager, Enterprise Cloud Operations, Microsoft.

Microsoft has slashed the price of its new-generation gaming console, Xbox One (without Kinect), from Rs 39,990 to Rs 34,990, just ahead of the E3 trade show. The Xbox One bundles include the Xbox One console, which features a 500GB hard drive, Blu-ray player and built-in Wi-Fi, one Xbox One Wireless Controller and a free 14-day trial of Xbox Live Gold for new members.

Technology giant Microsoft opened its first Microsoft Priority Reseller Store in the Chennai as it rebrands “Nokia Priority” stores. The change of brand follows the Microsoft-Nokia deal in which Washington-based firm acquired the handset business of Finland-based Nokia for $7.2 billion. “In India itself it is a big change for us, which we are trying to offer as part of the Microsoft experience is concerned.” Nokia India Sales Director-South TS Sridhar said.

Microsoft unveiled an Xbox One console with double the memory space that will hit the market as the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game extravaganza gets under way next week. The new Xbox One model boasts a terabyte of space that will likely appeal to players who are increasingly installing games as digital downloads instead of opting for disks.

Microsoft launched a public preview of home-grown technology that makes it possible to run the Cloud Foundry open source platform-as-a-service on its Azure cloud. “Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale cloud applications from different languages,” stated Ning Kuang, senior program manager for Microsoft Azure.

Archive360 Inc., a leading software development company offering fast and seamless email archive migration solutions, introduces multiple enhancements to their Archive 2-Anywhere platform to complement Microsoft’s Office 365 PST Import Service. Microsoft’s PST Import Service allows companies to transfer PST files from their on-premises environment to Exchange Online mailboxes to satisfy compliance needs, protect against data loss and enable user access.

Lenovo added two new devices to its YOGA series of convertibles – Yoga 300 and Yoga 500 – powered by Intel processors. Pre-loaded with Microsoft Office 365, users can access documents across devices on the go. The Lenovo YOGA 300 and YOGA 500 offers four convertible modes – laptop, stand, tent and tablet.