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At the International Association of Chiefs of Police annual conference in Chicago, IL, TASER International and Microsoft Corp announced a partnership agreement that will bring together the global scale, technology breadth, and security commitment of both companies through the combined capabilities of the Microsoft Azure’s cloud platform, and Windows 10 devices with TASER’s Axon Platform and Evidence.com solution. Microsoft and TASER’s global commitment to security and privacy compliance will also provide law enforcement agencies with the peace of mind to entrust both companies with the most sensitive of data.

C4 and Microsoft are delighted to announce the launch of the Microsoft Windows 10 Universal Application for NC4 Street Smart™. This universal application is an extension of the current NC4 Street Smart operating platform now accessible from mobile devices, laptops and tablets as well as large-scale displays including Microsoft’s new Surface Hub.

Microsoft’s latest version of its Office suite is here, and it has been getting rave reviews. Here’s what you need to know about Office 2016’s capabilities. As Microsoft has changed, grown and redesigned the Office apps over the years, it has been easy to lose track of key, little-used features that users just know are buried somewhere in there. A new “Tell Me” feature in Office 2016 on Windows lets users search for the feature they’re looking for and access it without having to pick through menus. Microsoft added a couple of new applications to its suite with this latest release – Sway and Delve are new apps worth checking out. Business users of Office 365 will get Office for Windows by default early next year.

BLU Products, which specialise in unlocked mobile devices in the United States, has announced the availability of its mobile product range through Amazon.in. The BLU Win JR LTE and Win HD LTE will also be sold through Microsoft retail points across India. The phones will be unlocked with dual sim functionality and will be available for Windows 10 upgrade.

No game is as synonymous with the Xbox brand like Halo. If quality is any indication, Halo 5 is going to do for the Xbox One what Halo: Combat Evolved did for the first Xbox – make people buy Microsoft’s latest console. On firing up Halo 5’s campaign, you’re treated to a set of cinematic videos that do a fine job of selling you on the game world. They don’t exist simply to set the story up or take it forward, rather they go deeper. As it stands, Halo 5 is near perfect. With slick gameplay, a fantastic campaign, and seemingly ambitious multiplayer.

Microsoft is without a doubt the biggest software maker in the world (almost everyone knows Windows and Office, collectively two of the most widely-used software ever). Despite its software success, the company has kept a focus on hardware products as well; its Lumia line of smartphones (acquired from Nokia) and Surface tablet line are familiar names for most people. But they aren’t the only products that the company has made in its 40-year history. Take a look at 10 little-known Microsoft products:

Microsoft has quietly updated the Surface Book lineup to add a low-end variant that offers better graphics than the base model. Priced at $1,699 (roughly Rs. 110,100), the newly added variant is only $200 (roughly Rs. 13,000) more expensive than the Surface Book’s base model, but still comes with discrete Nvidia graphics chip. Unveiled earlier this month, the Surface Book is Microsoft’s first laptop.

Dell and Microsoft Corp. announced a new cloud solution and program that enable organizations of all sizes to use the Microsoft cloud platform to transform their business. A new, Microsoft Azure-consistent, integrated system for hybrid cloud and extended program offerings will help more customers benefit from Azure and Dell to drive greater agility and increased time to value, whether they choose on-premises or public cloud solutions.

Microsoft Corp. reached a 15-year high after profit exceeded analysts’ estimates, buoyed by demand for Internet-based programs that handle business tasks and host companies’ applications. Fiscal first-quarter profit excluding items such as severance and acquisition costs, amounted to 67 cents a share, and sales adjusted for deferrals were $21.7 billion, Microsoft said in a statement.

With Windows 10, Microsoft wants to unify the PC and mobile platforms into one ecosystem. Microsoft is rolling out a new preview version of Windows 10 Mobile software that enables Cortana to send texts from your PC. Cortana will notify Windows 10 mobile users of any missed calls and then can reply straight from their PC.