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Dell has made a significant partnership with Microsoft to offer hybrid cloud services to enterprise customers. Dell’s latest offerings is built around the new Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard, the company highlighted in a Dell World keynote discussion between Michael Dell and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The new solution provides customers with on-premises private cloud, with consistent Azure public cloud access in less than three hours, and minimized downtime with unified system updates that are non-disruptive, fully automated, dependency-aware and smart-sequenced.

Microsoft announced call for entries for its ‘Build The Shield’ contest, a first-of-its-kind national level college hacking contest hosted by Microsoft annually. Running for third time in a row, the contest provides students a competitive hands-on hacking experience coupled with real-life scenarios, wherein the participating teams defend theirs while attack competitors’ servers to emerge as the winner.

Prophet, a global brand and marketing consultancy, unveiled the findings of its inaugural Brand Relevance Index (BRI). Technology companies Apple, Samsung and Microsoft topped the list as the most relevant consumer brands today. The BRI surveyed 10,000 U.S. consumers about 400 brands across 27 industries, and determined the top 10 most relevant brands are Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, Netflix, Nike, Chick-fil-A, Amazon, Spotify, LEGO and Sephora.

At CES, German consulting company IAV and Microsoft demonstrated a near-production Volkswagen Golf whose driver-side instrument cluster was just a large LCD display. The difference is that unnecessary dials and gauges—your engine temperature, for example—could be shunted aside and replaced with what was essentially a laptop display. And there, using the power of Windows 10 Continuum, the driver could display Windows 10 applications.

Day is not far when the set top box (STB) bringing entertaining programmes to the bed rooms through television would also bring in a new world of information and services along with entertainment. Microsoft, one of the global giants in software has decided to explore the option of using under-utilized bandwidth of TV cables and STB to provide internet services. Television penetration in rural Jharkhand is then going to be a tool in the hands of department of Information and Technology to link rural households with e-governance schemes.

Microsoft’s Terry Myerson, said, “With Windows 10, both companies wanted to do something great together, and we showcased the new Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, along with our shared vision for future innovation together across the entire Internet of Things.” He added, ““We’re excited about today’s devices and we’re also inspired about the potential of tomorrow. Along with Samsung, we share a common vision for millions and millions of devices and Things all communicating together using open protocols and standards within inclusive ecosystems, inspiring the creativity of software developers, device manufacturers, and rising star Makers around the world.”

Microsoft and Rambus have announced a partnership whereby they will be jointly looking into the memory requirements which will be necessary for quantum computing to become a reality in some form. Microsoft wants to push on in this arena, looking at the theoretical side of creating quantum computers, and designing the relevant hardware and software – basically laying the groundwork at this point, rather than actually building such a machine.

With the wave of new Windows 10 products released at CES, the number of devices running the new OS is poised to further accelerate in 2016. New PCs came from companies including LG, HP, Lenovo, and Dell. Tablets came from HP and Samsung, which unveiled the new Galaxy TabPro S convertible tablet. The hybrid model is proving popular as manufacturers take cues from Microsoft’s original Surface design. On the smartphone front, the expansion of Windows 10 Mobile sparked some discussion at CES. Microsoft’s new mobile operating system is starting to get attention from other smartphone makers.

Game-creation platform Roblox is coming to Xbox One on January 27. The platform lets users create their own games, levels, and worlds using the game’s block themed tools, and then share them with others. Roblox will come bundled with 15 new games made using its creation tools upon its Xbox One launch. It will be absolutely free to download. So you can get down to designing your own creations for absolutely free, and playing 15 other, rather good ones, for no cost at all.