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The Xbox Live Games With Gold titles for December have been revealed and they’re a pretty big step up from November. Xbox One players get their hands on The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing, throughout December. Meanwhile, Eidos Montreal’s meh reboot of Thief will be available from December 16th to January 15th 2016. Xbox 360 gamers are in for a treat – with Castlestorm, Sacred 3, and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.

Volvo Cars will work together with Microsoft, the leading platform and Productivity Company, to jointly develop next generation automotive technologies. The two companies revealed how Microsoft HoloLens, the world’s first fully untethered holographic computer, might be used in future to redefine how customers first encounter and explore a car, as well as how cars might be bought and sold in future.

The Redmond-based tech giant incorporated a number of changes to the new version of Windows, including the new task view, Continuum, universal search, etc. Here are a few key features of Windows 10 for Enterprises: Windows Store for business, mobile device management, and Azure Active Directory Join.

Microsoft is adding a bunch of new features to Skype app for Android and iOS, to bring it at par with the other popular instant messaging apps. The new features include: video message – a feature that allows users to record a video message and share it with friends; more control over contacts and chats; sharing features allows users to share photos from the picture gallery on an ongoing Skype chat; a number of India centric emojis and more.

The iconic machine has been through three design changes in its lifetime and has sold over 84 million units since it debuted in 2005. In order to take on Sony’s PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 rallied numerous epic exclusive game series like Halo, Project Gotham Racing and Gears of War. Besides offering a plethora of blockbuster titles, it also heralded game-changing technology like the Xbox Live multiplayer service and the Kinect motion sensing camera.

Microsoft Windows just turned 30 on this November 20. The platform was announced in 1983. The 30 year old platform was announced by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in 1983. Windows operating system platform holds 75% of desktop OS market share.

Microsoft believes its Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile ecosystem has enough apps in the Windows Store to convince an Android handset user to switch to its platforms. The company has released an Android app called AppComparison to help an Android user find alternatives for all their favourite Android apps they use on Microsoft’s mobile platforms.

Windows 10 is poised to become the most widely installed version of Windows ever, following on the path of Windows XP and Windows 7 before it, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner predicts that 50 percent of enterprises will have started Windows 10 deployments by January 2017. “In the consumer market, a free upgrade coupled with broad legacy device support and automatic over-the-air upgrades ensures that there will be tens of millions of users familiar with the operating system (OS) before the end of 2015,” said Steve Kleynhans, Research Vice President at Gartner.

New data from Strategy Analytics, published shows that Windows tablets, from entry level devices to the flagship Surface Pro are rapidly gaining in popularity. Microsoft has finally got its formula right and consumers are starting to take interest in its tablets. Shipments are already up 58 per cent this year and represent 10 per cent of the market, and, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, this growth could lead to Microsoft and Microsoft-powered devices accounting for 18 per cent of tablet sales by 2019, just behind Apple on 23 per cent.

Microsoft Corp. and Volvo Car Group, are working together to bring Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality goggles to Volvo showrooms next year to spruce up safety-feature demonstrations, car customization — and yes, test drives. In a prototype demonstration at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, the companies used HoloLens to show off Volvo’s new S90 mid-size luxury sedan, announced in September and set to be unveiled to the public at this year’s Detroit Auto Show.