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Perfecto Mobile, the market leading provider of high-quality digital and mobile experiences for enterprises, announced new integrations for mobile testing with Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. Perfecto’s tight integrations connect its cloud-based test lab, Continuous Quality Lab™, to Microsoft’s developer tools to enable automated mobile web and app testing via the cloud. Enterprises can leverage the integrations to work in a single IDE for full application development and quality management and ensure continuous quality throughout every build.

During its annual Connect(); developer event, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to providing the best experience for any developer, on any device or platform, with several new and updated developer tools and programs from Visual Studio, Azure, Office and Windows, including many new free offers. “As a developer company we want to empower developers with open and flexible technologies that enable innovation on their terms,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft.

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled tools that protect not only cloud-based workloads in the company’s Azure IaaS public cloud, but those on customers’ premises and even in competing clouds, such as those from Amazon Web Services. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a keynote address at a Government Cloud Forum in Washington, D.C. in which he talked about his company’s broad security efforts.

Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units, research firm Gartner has said. Micromax’s sales jumped over two-fold to 12.16 million units in the reported period compared to 5.6 million units in the same period a year ago. Samsung maintained its global leadership with sales growing by about 9% year-on-year to over 102 million units and was followed by Apple which registered 20.6% growth in sales at over 46 million devices .Microsoft Devices occupied third spot globally with sale of 30.29 million devices in the reported quarter.

Microsoft has announced that it has implemented a new rendering engine in Microsoft Edge, the new default Windows browser it introduced with Windows 10, to combat a number of browser-based abuses and attacks. The company says with the changes attackers will not be able to use third-party applications to install toolbars on Edge.

The Until Dawn-esque Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive indie game title, Oxenfree, will be launching in January 2016. The game has a premise similar to Supermassive Games’ as it follows teenagers who inadvertently and unwittingly open up a supernatural rift, and then find themselves facing the horrors within. “Microsoft’s commitment to curating and nurturing the most exciting new game worlds and then delivering them to millions of players make them the perfect partner to help bring Oxenfree to life,” said Sean Krankel, Co-founder of Night School Studio.

November 20, 2015 will be the 30th anniversary of the launch of the very first version of Windows. Upon its debut, this operating system aimed at the general public had a new graphic interface which was relatively easy to use. It was the first foundation stone in the immense Windows edifice to come.

In his first moves on cybersecurity in nearly two years as Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella is building a dedicated site and assembling a new group of experts to help Microsoft Corp. respond faster to threats across its various products. Satya Nadella, said, “We don’t think of security as being a separate piece of technology. It has to be core to the operational systems that you use, where your data resides, where your most critical applications usage is.”

Zoho Corporation, has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft. The partnership will provide Microsoft’s customers with a suite of business productivity applications and IT management products on its O365 and Azure Marketplace. “Our partnership is a step towards making the best of technology available to SMBs and Enterprises across the world. Integration of Zoho Corporation applications with Office365 and Azure will empower them to collaborate better, engage faster with their customers and drive business growth,” said Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.

Microsoft is bringing PowerPoint slides and presentations to a new level of sophistication with the addition of features such as a cloud-powered recommendation engine and smart animation technology. The two new PowerPoint tools, called Morph and Designer, automate the creation of slides and are designed to help users create polished slides and motion effects with a few steps.