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Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India spoke about its India story to Business Today on December 13th in Hyderabad, where it organized its annual media and analyst days. He said, “If you look at the vertical focus that we have now, which is bringing both global solutions into India and creating solutions for Indian companies, the banking and financial sector is a big area of impact that we have moved on.”

Microsoft will soon enable partners to work effectively with its rich network of government customers, helping them work around the country’s mega digital initiative, a top company executive said. “One out of nine of our partners today does business on the Cloud and, going forward, we will endeavour to bring all of them into the Cloud ecosystem. With Cloud awareness now reaching tier II and tier III markets, we will definitely have more reach in India in 2018,” Rajiv Sodhi, General Manager, Partner Ecosystem, Microsoft India, told IANS.

Microsoft made its Edge Browser app for iOS support the iPhone X. The support comes as a part of Microsoft Edge app version 41.6 on the App Store. The browser comes with features like Favorites, Reading List, New Tab Page and Reading View. It also comes with the feature that lets users pause their work on the Edge browser on the mobile and continue on the desktop.

Thousands of students from rural India to relocate to cities for studying under best teachers, causing financial strain on their parents. To help with this, a product, ‘Anywhere Board’, is being developed at Microsoft Garage. The Anywhere Board will allow students sitting in different remote locations to watch the teacher’s lecture, as well as let students in one location solve the problem on the board remotely and their will still be visible to all other groups.

To further hasten Indian customers move to the Cloud, Microsoft launched Azure Stack for India. Azure Stack is an extension of Microsoft’s Azure Cloud platform and brings the agility and fast-paced innovation of Cloud computing to on-premises environments and enables entirely new hybrid Cloud scenarios. Microsoft has been a partner-led company for more than 40 years and generates over 95 per cent of its business through partner ecosystems.

Larsen & Toubro Infotech announced the availability of its blockchain-based trade finance solution on Microsoft Azure marketplace. The solution enables accelerated adoption of distributed ledger technologies by bringing together LTI’s deep industry knowledge and blockchain capabilities together with Microsoft’s expertise in cloud-based solutions.

Park Place Technologies has become the first company to fully deploy Microsoft enterprise Cloud services, including Dynamics 365 and Office 365, along with LinkedIn Sales Navigator to help enterprises drive digital transformation. With Microsoft’s services, including Dynamics 365, Office 365 and LinkedIn to its employees, Park Place Technologies would also drive digital transformation across its global sales and service operations and rapidly accelerate its ability to deliver engineering services across the over 100 countries in which it operates.

Microsoft has announced a free preview of its Quantum Development Kit that allows programmers to start coding for quantum computers. Quantum computation can be deployed to tackle some of the hardest problems, including climate change and world hunger. There are three main components, a fully integrated programming language called Q# (Q sharp), local and cloud simulating environments to test out the quantum algorithms, as well as libraries of quantum samples, tutorials and building blocks.