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Nearly 300 young techies, top businessmen from Hyderabad, and even Telangana IT Minister KT Rama Rao turned up well on time at T-Hub’s meeting hall to hear Microsoft’s CEO speak. Satya Nadella struck a chord with the start-ups. Nadella asked entrepreneurs to work on providing last-mile connectivity in rural areas and on building marketable solutions. “You can tap white spaces (unused TV spectrum) or other sources to provide last-mile connectivity and solutions,” he said.

The Andhra Pradesh government has said Microsoft India will be setting up a Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam as part of its digital inclusion drive in the state, besides sharpening focus on raising productivity. The technology giant signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government in deployment and use of information and communications technologies to offer better citizen services in the state.

Google and Microsoft have their virtual eyes on Santa Claus and his gift-laden sleigh. Microsoft once again partnered with the North American Aerospace Defense Command on an interactive website at noradsanta.org where Santa’s reindeer-drawn sleigh can be seen making its way over countries around the world.

Microsoft research no doubt is the largest company that deals with the innovation. Today we have listed 5 predictions for future generation of technology by Microsoft: new silicon architectures will enable faster computing; Improved cloud performance; Note taking and drawing will be mainstream task on tablets; The virtual assistants add more usability and personalization to mobile device; and growing awareness around ethics behind data collection.

India’s first home-grown messaging platform announced the launch of hike 3.5 version for phones on the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system.”Windows is our 2nd largest platform by users and they have been eagerly waiting for this update, which is the biggest we have ever released for Windows, and we are excited to finally get it in their hands,” Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO and Founder of hike messenger, said.

Google and Microsoft have their virtual eyes on Santa Claus and his gift-laden sleigh. Microsoft once again partnered with the North American Aerospace Defense Command on an interactive website at noradsanta.org where Santa’s reindeer-drawn sleigh can be seen making its way over countries around the world.

Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said the company is piloting a similar facility in India as well, with plans to expand in the near future.”I think cybersecurity is going to become very, very critical,” said Pramanik. “We’ve just opened a cybersecurity centre here [in Gurgaon], it’s a pilot, and we will be announcing something much bigger later on. This cybersecurity centre is focused on how do we ensure that we can protect India’s critical infrastructure, enterprises, government organisations from malware and any other kind of security threat.”

Microsoft research no doubt is the largest company that deals with the innovation. Today we have listed 5 predictions for future generation of technology by Microsoft: new silicon architectures will enable faster computing; Improved cloud performance; Note taking and drawing will be mainstream task on tablets; The virtual assistants add more usability and personalization to mobile device; and growing awareness around ethics behind data collection.

India’s first home-grown messaging platform announced the launch of hike 3.5 version for phones on the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system.”Windows is our 2nd largest platform by users and they have been eagerly waiting for this update, which is the biggest we have ever released for Windows, and we are excited to finally get it in their hands,” Kavin Bharti Mittal, CEO and Founder of hike messenger, said.

Microsoft is betting big on its cloud offering through localised data centers, hoping to get a large pie from the government’s ambitious Digital India initiative and ecommerce firms. The government has been asking multinational firms to host data locally to ward off security issues. Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said, “The availability of Microsoft cloud services through local data centres has the potential to make Digital India a reality.”