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Minecraft, the sandbox game owned by Microsoft, is now available to play on Samsung’s portable virtual reality headset, the Gear VR. The new version will work just like the Pocket Edition, giving users access to Creative and Survival modes, along with the option of multiplayer and skins. Gamers will require a controller to play the game though.

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and next-generation services, announced an expanded relationship with Microsoft, a global leader in platform and productivity solutions. Judson Althoff, President, Microsoft North America, said, “Enterprises today are on a journey of digitization – reinventing business processes and adapting to new business models to build a competitive advantage. We are working closely with Infosys in North America and other markets around the globe to help our customers in their digital transformation journey. We are excited about the accelerated Infosys investment in building a global pool of resources together with a range of industry applications. Our efforts will allow both companies to meet the explosive demand of a new generation of solutions powered by Microsoft Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics.”

Collaboration has been a central focus of Office 2016, and this month’s updates really take it up a notch. Users can find out about anyone who’s working on a document, and even call an all-hands virtual meeting to discuss new changes. The Activity feed presents a slightly different tweak on the familiar Track Changes function. While Track Changes allows users to see what edits have been made to a particular document, the Activity feed reports who saved a particular document, and allows to jump back to the version he or she was working on.

Metalogix, the premier provider of unified software to migrate, manage and secure content across enterprise collaboration platforms, announced its May 2016 lineup of events and webinars. The event will feature live product demonstrations, discussions and tutorials at the NLIT Summit, SharePoint Spring Workshop and Expo, Collab365 Summit, and other noteworthy industry events.

Tech giants Amazon.com and Microsoft, as well as other firms that rent out computing power and storage, are rapidly becoming some of the biggest spenders in the corporate world, as they lay down the bases for a future in the cloud. These companies are spending billions in acquiring or leasing the data centers that embody the cloud and employing thousands of engineers that operate the new technology.

Gridstore, the leader in hyper-converged all flash infrastructure, announced its next ‘Fast Track Your VMware Tax Refund’ webinar to explore the myriad challenges faced by IT professionals today. The webinar will be hosted on May 5th, 2016 by industry guru and Microsoft MVP, Dave Kawula, one of the industry’s leading experts on the how to reap the full benefits of migrating from VMware to Hyper-V.

The Cloud Platform Microsoft Partner competency highlights Microsoft’s continuing evolution to a Cloud based company, and its focus on the global Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform. SaaSplaza is currently implementing Microsoft Dynamics solutions using eight Microsoft Azure centers. SaaSplaza has also held the Microsoft Gold Hosting competency for many years. In combination with the new Gold Cloud Platform competency, this demonstrates deep ability and commitment to the Microsoft Cloud ecosystem and delivery of Microsoft Dynamics SaaS (Software-as-a-Service).

Beyondsoft announced its inclusion in Microsoft’s Power BI Red Carpet program. Microsoft designed their Power BI Suite to bring business data to life in order for organizations of all sizes to better understand the patterns and trends in their business operations in real-time. The red carpet program enables selected partners to grow their data practices through an accelerated development of solutions and services based upon Microsoft Power BI.

Mesosphere, the container orchestration company, has issued as open source code its Data Center Operating System (DC/OS). This also marks the formation of an alliance behind DC/OS that includes Microsoft, HP Enterprise, and Cisco, along with 57 other companies. Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, wrote, “Microsoft selected DC/OS for the Azure Container Service so our customers can easily build, deploy and manage modern applications on…Azure, as well as in private and hybrid cloud environments.”

As many as three Indian-origin persons have been named among 100 highest-paid chief executive officers (CEOs) globally with PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi and Lyondell-Basell’s Bhavesh Patel making it to the top ten list compiled by Equilar. Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, was ranked 26th on the list of 100 highest-paid CEOs with a total compensation of $18.3 million.