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A sequel to the 2010 open world action-adventure game, Just Cause 3, is all about blowing stuff up with a massive arsenal of weapons. The over-the top-action is a welcome change of pace from other games. As you’re hanging upside down from a helicopter while throwing grenades at the enemy base, Just Cause 3, is a reminder that games don’t need to take themselves too seriously, and great things can happen when you let imagination run wild. Just Cause 3 is available on Xbox One.

With Satya Nadella at the helm, Microsoft India continues to be an important cog in the company’s overall wheel. Microsoft India continued its growth momentum during the fiscal 2015 in the Indian market with a solid 19% growth. The global leadership continues to bet big on India and with Nadella’s growing focus on India (especially after the meet with PM Modi in San Jose) has helped the company renew its focus with big investments in the country that will help Microsoft to double its business from different verticals including the government.

Nadella spent about an hour Monday morning at Rainier View Elementary in Seattle, helping a class of 20 students navigate a software-coding tutorial based on Microsoft’s “Minecraft” game. He was on hand as part of an event to showcase the start of Computer Science Education Week, a technology industry-sponsored effort to promote computer-science education in schools.

Microsoft’s voice-based virtual assistant Cortana has got an update that lets it greet users, play games, and more on ‘Special Days’. Some users are also noticing a new feature that lets them open certain websites simply by saying the site’s name to Cortana.

The Windows 10 Mobile ROM makes Xiaomi’s Mi 4 one of the first mainstream smartphones to run on both, Android 5.1 Lollipop based MIUI 7 and Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile OS. The recently launched Mi Pad 2 is the other Xiaomi device that will let users choose between Windows 10 and Android.

Trend Micro Incorporated has announced the integration of Trend Micro Deep Security into the Microsoft Azure Security Center. Customers will now have access to a single view of all Azure subscriptions, live workload monitoring capabilities, and suggested remedial steps to address security issues. Trend Micro Deep Security has been recommended by Microsoft Corp. to help address vulnerabilities, enabling customers to deploy directly from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

Microsoft’s shareholders voted Wednesday to elect the company’s 11 nominated board members and said “yes” on an advisory vote on the company’s executive pay packages. Johnson & Johnson executive Sandra Peterson and former Cisco executive Padmasree Warrior join the company’s governing council, replacing Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe, who stepped down after six years.

Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI), an apex organization for industry, trade and service sectors in Karnataka, and Microsoft have come together to help more than 200000 SMBs across Karnataka to adopt technology with cloud computing. This will not only open more avenues for SMBs but also help them connect better with their existing customers and reach out to the potential customers across India.

Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Windows and Devices Marketing, Yusuf Mehdi, spoke at the Credit Suisse Technology Broker Conference, and talked about the performance of Xbox this year, attributing Microsoft’s success to the great lineup of games Microsoft had. He said, “Gaming has been pretty big success case. Gaming, think about it in two pieces: there is a traditional Xbox console business where we compete with Sony, and there we have had probably the best year we have ever had for Xbox, and it’s still on the back of the greatest game lineup of the Xbox history.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise outlined new details about its hybrid cloud partnership with Microsoft in an announcement, saying it will provide a new hardware product that integrates with the Azure cloud platform and build its software to take advantage of Microsoft’s offerings. Companies interested in integrating Microsoft’s Azure cloud with HPE’s on-premises systems can now purchase the new Hyper-Converged 250 for Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard, an appliance that brings together HPE ProLiant technology and Microsoft’s Azure services.