Author: Microsoft Stories

HP has launched a low-cost Windows alternative to Chromebox, the HP Stream Mini PC, at approximately Rs. 11,500 at CES 2015. HP has also introduced the Pavilion Mini PCs, which starts at approximately Rs. 20,000, with the Intel Pentium CPU. For the Pavilion mini, HP has offered 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive storage for two years and a gift card that can be used at the Windows Store to buy apps, music and Xbox One games.

The Asus Transformer Book T90 and Asus Transformer Book T100 are priced at $300 (roughly Rs. 19,000) and $400 (roughly Rs. 25,300) respectively, the most notable of the three tablets, the Asus Transformer Book T300, is priced at $699 (roughly Rs. 44,300) and $799 (roughly Rs. 50,600) based on the screen resolution. All the three tablets run on Windows 8.1 and true to the Transformer series feature bundled keyboard docks.

Microsoft has announced that it is expanding the Office for Android tablet preview. The company is removing the need to possess an access code in order to use the productivity suite, allowing anyone to download Word, Excel, and PowerPoint preview apps directly from the Google Play Store.

Teachers and educators all over the world are using Microsoft Office 365 for learning, teaching and helping to make their administration more streamlined and efficient. Office 365 can be a great tool for education and for enhancing learning and teaching. This guide will give you 50 short ideas to try.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, Ranjit Atwal, Research Director, Gartner, said, “From 2015, we expect Windows to grow faster than iOS, as the PC market stabilizes and the challenge for the next iPhone to find significant growth becomes greater, narrowing the gap between the two operating systems.”

The latest Nokia 215 strives to connect people to the Internet for only $29, which converts to roughly Rs. 1,800. Offered in dual-SIM and single SIM variants, the Nokia 215 is a 2G (Edge) enabled feature phone that connects to the Internet. It has a 2.4-inch QVGA screen and runs on Nokia’s feature phone OS. The phone comes preloaded with top social networking apps, Bing Search and the MSN Weather app.

Link Systems, an ISO and CMMI certified global software solutions provider, nationally managed Microsoft SI Partner and winner of several Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, announced the release of their latest version of Retail BI Framework, powered by next generation Microsoft technologies including SQL Azure, Office 365, Power BI, Excel 2013, SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint 2010/13.

Healthcare major Fortis has been effectively utilizing IT to offer cutting-edge healthcare services. Recently, it became a 100 percent Public Cloud company. Varun Sood, Chief Information Officer at Fortis Healthcare, said, “This initiative was completed last year and has significantly helped us in reducing cost and at the same time enhancing efficiency and enabling us to rollout new services at faster speed. Our entire public cloud infrastructure is on Microsoft Azure.”

With more than 400 journalists and 470 stringers, news agency Press Trust of India (PTI) covers the length and breadth of the country. Tridib Bordoloi, Head – IT, has been handling PTI’s IT requirements since 2009. “When I took over in 2009, the systems were archaic. Now, there is uniformity in the systems that we use throughout. Everything is on the Microsoft platform now,” he said.

HP has launched its new Windows 8.1-based tablet in India, the HP Stream 8, at Rs. 16,990. The 3G-enabled, single-SIM (micro-SIM) device and runs Windows 8.1, and is powered by a quad-core, 1.8GHz processor coupled with 1GB RAM. The device also sports a 5-megapixel AF rear camera and a secondary 2-megapixel front-facing camera.