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Microsoft quietly announced today that it’s making it easier for small businesses to upgrade to Windows 10, by making the ‘Get Windows 10’ app that prompts users to upgrade more widely available.Starting later this month Microsoft says businesses running Windows 7 Pro or 8.1 Pro will start seeing the upgrade app appear in their task bar, asking them to take advantage of the free upgrade.

At the recent CDM Summit in Silicon Valley, channel performance experts from Microsoft, HP Inc., Accenture, and IDC described the transformative power that CDM injects into the manufacturing sector. Microsoft has introduced Zyme CDM to some of its 3,000 managed partners, and tens of thousands of others to potentially be added to the CDM platform in the future. The company’s initial use of the Zyme platform has begun to deliver key business intelligence. “Data matters, and it matters at the most senior levels,” explained Frank Martin, senior program manager at Microsoft.

Caringo announced the immediate availability of its Swarm object storage software on Microsoft Azure, enabling rapid deployment of highly reliable, scalable and compliant storage to developers and enterprises in any of the worldwide network of managed data centers that Azure offers. Now, applications using Amazon S3 can seamlessly move to Azure using Caringo Swarm.

The Microsoft Office productivity suite for Android has received an update that brings interesting new features to the Word, Excel, and PowerPoint productivity apps. Among other additions, the company is now allowing users to sign up for a free Microsoft account from within the app. PowerPoint for Android is getting some new features too. Users will now be able to play the embedded media files in their presentation.

Microsoft will soon add group video calling feature to its Skype mobile app for Android, iOS and Windows 10. The feature is said to be released in the coming weeks. Users who wish to try out the feature before its official roll out can pre-register on Microsoft’s site. In addition, the company is also celebrating Skype’s 10th anniversary and shares details on how the product has evolved through the years.

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.