Recent News

Microsoft has enlisted the likes of Volvo, Lowes, Japan Airlines and ThyssenKrupp to test its HoloLens augmented reality (AR) headset. Given Microsoft’s prowess in fostering dominant platforms such as Windows and Office and its global reach you could argue that the software giant has the best shot at establishing the enterprise standard in AR.

Betaout, an e-commerce customer intelligence and marketing automation platform provider, has been selected for Microsoft’s Startup Accelerator Program. Betaout is a data analytics startup providing e-commerce companies with an all-in-one marketing software. This ranges from analyzing visitors and building user personas to personalized multi-channel engagement.

In a bid to grow the established CRM and ERP players in the industry, Microsoft recently demonstrated Dynamics 365 to its partners and customers. Microsoft Dynamics 365 unifies CRM and ERP capabilities by delivering new purpose-built applications to help manage specific business functions, including Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Operations, Marketing, Project Service Automation, and Financials.

The Xbox One Scorpio promises to be the most powerful home console ever made- though the question of just how that power will be tapped, given that Microsoft are mandating parity with the standard Xbox One, for all games, is one that remains unanswered.

The Xbox One has been going great guns in the past few months. Microsoft announced that the console was the best-selling console in the United States for September as per data from the NPD Group. That makes this the third month in a row that the Xbox One has beaten the PS4 and become the best-selling console in the United States.

HPE will soon launch its HPE | Microsoft Azure Stack solution, an integrated system that will enable organizations to increase agility and flexibility by delivering Azure compatible infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services from their on-premises data center.

In probably the single biggest piece of news out of Ignite, Microsoft revealed that it has hundreds of thousands of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (better known as FPGAs) racked up with its servers in Azure data centers around the world. Further, in its continuing quest to expand the global reach of its public cloud platform, Microsoft announced the general availability of four new Azure regions: two in the U.K. and two in Germany

Microsoft Ventures backed ZingHR is using cloud for offering hire-to-retire solutions. When ZingHR made it to the Microsoft Ventures’ 2014 summer batch of its accelerator programme in India, Prasad thought the partnership will just be to push the technology piece. However, he was surprised that their entire approach was not just to look from the technology perspective but also from funding, marketing, from a go-to-market, from positioning perspective.

Instagram app for Windows 10 is expanding beyond mobiles with the launch of PC and tablet friendly versions. Back in April, Facebook had announced collection of apps including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for Windows 10. The apps were built on Microsoft’s Windows 10 universal platform with support for features like live tiles and cross platform scaling.

ZingHR, the new age cloud HCM Platform, has received the ‘ISV Partner of the Year’ Award at the Microsoft Summit 2016, organized in Goa. Microsoft recognized ZingHR for its innovation in technology and providing cloud based HRMS solutions to its customers, powered by Microsoft Azure.