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The Microsoft and Heptio collaboration aims to ensure Heptio Ark delivers a strong Kubernetes disaster-recovery solution for customers who want to use it on Azure. The companies will also work together to make the Ark project an efficient solution to move Kubernetes applications across on-premise computing environments and Azure, and to ensure that Azure-hosted backups are secure.

Cloud computing and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to process vast amounts of disparate data were most picked up in 2017 that brought success for the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector in India. On these lines, Microsoft launched Kaizala, a mobile app and service for Android, iOS and Windows phones, designed for large group communication and work management. The app coordinates work with the entire value chain, including field employees, vendors, partners and customers on-the-go. Mobility and automation innovation in technology has enabled banks in their turnaround time and to minimise errors.

Fujitsu and Microsoft on Saturday announced to build new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions that will transform the ways people work. Based on the Microsoft 365 integrated cloud service, the new solutions will be powered by Fujitsu’s AI technology, Fujitsu Human Centric AI Zinrai, and Microsoft AI platform services on Azure. The two companies aim to develop a new $2 billion of new businesses in the global market by 2020.

Microsoft India will continue to partner with Assam to enable better e-governance services in the state. The tech major is engaged with Assam Power Distribution Company Ltd for their initiatives in the field of internal workplace modernisation, and is also associated with departments such commercial tax and treasury. Microsoft focusses on better e-governance services in Assam, in alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India mission.

Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ‘Ruuh’ that has begun changing the lives of handloom weavers in India is something that will shape the future of technology. Not just ‘Ruuh,’ social chatbots built by Microsoft have over 100 million users with 30 billion conversation sessions across five countries.

Microsoft is looking at digital transformation opportunities worth $100 billion in India in the next few years. Microsoft is driving it’s digital transformation using technologies like artificial intelligence and cloud computing for applications ranging from helping farmers to increase crop yields to supporting doctors provide better diagnosis and a cure for diseases.

Microsoft unveiled the Microsoft Launcher for Android in October, and the company is now rolling out a major update to app version 4.4, which comes with a lot of new features. The app is now live on Google Play Store and is available for Microsoft Launcher beta app for Android. It comes with several new features such as support for creating folders, improvements, bug fixes and more.

Technology giant Microsoft has started testing its much-awaited Windows 10’s ‘Timeline’ feature. ‘Timeline’ will let one effectively pick up where they left off if one is switching between Windows 10 devices. It is a quick way to move from one machine to another. In the present, ‘Timeline’ can be accessed through the usual Task View area in Windows 10.

Technology giant Microsoft, whose vision is to empower every student to achieve more, supports the ‘Digital India’ campaign. Its various education and skill development programs have benefited lakhs of teachers and youth across the country. For example, under Project Shiksha, Microsoft partnered with 12 state governments to build ICT skills in nearly 8 lakh government school teachers, thereby, impacting roughly 38 million students.

Microsoft will be focusing more on the government and the small business segment to grow its India revenues. “The SMB (Small and Medium Businesses) segment and the segments around digital India (and) government would be clear areas of focus for us in addition to all the work around enterprise and consumer that we have been doing,” said Microsoft India president Anant Maheshwari at a recently held event.