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L&T Technology Services announced a Digital Engineering Transformation partnership with Microsoft Corporation to deliver Microsoft Azure Engineering Solutions for global enterprises across industries. This strategic partnership between the two companies will enable enterprises around the world to leverage L&T Technology’s cutting-edge IP-led Digital Engineering solutions hosted on Microsoft’s Azure enterprise cloud-first, mobile-first infrastructure.

PwC India has formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft India to empower India’s digital transformation. This strategic partnership between Microsoft and PwC will empower the digital transformation of large and mid-sized organizations in India by leveraging Microsoft’s technology expertise and PwC’s strategy capabilities across sectors and competencies.

Microsoft’s original promise for the Xbox One centered very heavily on the promise of the cloud. Cloud gaming, we were promised, would be the path to the next generation of video games. It would enable games unlike anything seen before, and it would more than compensate for the Xbox One’s weakness on the specs front relative to the PS4.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim carried a size of just 4GB on the Xbox 360. The size of the remastered Special Edition is quite a bit larger and has a size of 22.75GB, as per the Australian Microsoft Store. In other words, when it comes to the Xbox One and the PS4, the title is about almost six times larger. The game is due to launch for the Xbox One, PS4 and PC on October 28.

In the battle to dominate Europe’s cloud computing market, U.S. tech giants are spending big to build up their local credibility. Microsoft, by some measures the second-largest cloud computing provider in Europe, said that it had spent $1 billion in the past 12 months to expand its offerings, taking its total investment in European-based cloud services to $3 billion since 2005. With many in Europe questioning why the United States’ largest tech companies control how many of the region’s 500 million citizens use every day digital services, it is not surprising that the likes of Microsoft and Amazon are eager to play up their local roots.

Bengaluru-based multi-specialty hospital chain Narayana Hrudyalaya (NH) has 54 facilities all across India. At its different hospitals, the hospital carries out 650 to 700 cardiac surgeries each month. Speaking at the sidelines of a conference organized by Microsoft India last month, Kumar KV, Vice President, NH chatted with Gadgets 360 about how technology was changing the field of medicine, with immediate developments in fields such as 3D printing, along with long term projects such as the use of deep learning to improve the predictive capabilities of hospitals.

Microsoft Garage has launched a new application called Trip Tracker for Android users. The application is designed to automatically track your trips and create entries for each one of those entries with information. This information would typically consist of start and end time, duration of the stay and path the user has taken. “Trip Tracker, a Microsoft Garage project, is a free app that automatically records your drives, runs, walks, and bike rides. The app works in the background, and will auto detect when your activity has started,” Microsoft explains.

Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, has tied up with Microsoft as a cloud service partner. As part of this tie-up, VBS will offer Office 365 to Indian businesses to give them enterprise-grade productivity and collaboration services. “We are excited to have Vodafone Business Services as a Cloud Partner. Our tie-up will give Indian enterprises of all sizes affordable access to Microsoft’s suite of collaboration and productivity services – across devices, anywhere, anytime, and worry-free,” said Microsoft’s Marketing and Operations General Manager Meetul Patel.

Microsoft and Google want to make it clear that their email services, Outlook, Hotmail and Gmail, are safe from U.S. government spies. The two companies issued the following statements to CNBC, following a Reuters report revealing that Internet giant Yahoo secretly scanned customer emails for U.S. intelligence officials, according to reporter Joseph Menn’s sources. “We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic like what has been reported about Yahoo,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in an emailed response to CNBC.

In a new report on the state of the Mexican gaming market, The Competitive Intelligence Unit shared data, revealed that the Xbox brand totally and utterly dominates in the North American nation. Not only that, but it seems as though even Nintendo is a stronger presence in Mexico than PlayStation, with only the Wii U’s poor performance keeping Sony ahead for now. Xbox leads with 57.9% market share in the country, with the lion’s share of this going to Xbox 360, which has 39.8% of the sales in the country. The Wii and the Xbox One both follow with 12% market share each, while the PS3 comes in at 10.5%.