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Top US multinational firms want the Centre to nudge state governments to move expeditiously on infrastructure clearances and address concerns over country’s data security and intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. The issues were discussed in a meeting with finance minister Arun Jaitley in San Francisco, which was attended by top notch US firms including Microsoft.

Microsoft said it would soon tweak the Windows 10 preview program as its engineers push toward the July 29 launch of the final code to customers. As of the next build to the Windows Insider program, Microsoft will require that participants associate their Microsoft Account — typically the same username and password combination for accessing company services such as Outlook.com, OneDrive and Skype — with the preview on their PC.

Phil Spencer is giving gamers the ability to have more choice about how they play their favorite games, where they play their favorite games and when they play their favorite games. Check out the video for all of his comments, where he laid out how gamers can more easily play games on the PC as well as the Xbox One.

With Microsoft looking to align its efforts on Windows and Xbox One, one of the key features missing from its console is Cortana, which is about to change. Read how Microsoft has responded to consumer feedback to make it one of the more compelling choices for gaming this year.

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Microsoft Ventures in India recently announced the launch of new corporate engagement initiative, ‘Innovation for Corporates’ (ICI) at Think Next 2015. The program aims to work with enterprise businesses to develop and implement different models to attain innovation driven growth by engaging with startups. By acting as a catalyst between the corporates and startups, Microsoft Ventures aims to accomplish game-changing transformations in the innovation space and take the Indian technology industry to next level.

When six employees of Microsoft’s Development Center in Hyderabad started TOFFEE (Total Offense Free Entity), an active volunteering programme in partnership with the Cyberabad Traffic Police, they had no idea the initiative would be such a huge success. Today this group helps the cops manage traffic in a much easier way and lets motorists commute to and from office without any major traffic snarls. This is matter of pride for Microsoft India Development Centre at Hyderabad and for the Cyberabad traffic police, who have showcased their efforts to other police units around the country as a project that could be possibly replicated.

Arguably one of the biggest announcements that came out of E3 this year – and this E3 was filled with big ones – was the news that the Xbox One would be gaining the ability to play Xbox 360 games natively. Of course, owing to the hardware architectural differences between the two systems, and the simple issue of licensing and legal rights, this is going to come with a lot of caveats, but it was still an amazing move that garnered Microsoft a lot of good publicity and PR.

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