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Ingram Micro has announced its participation in the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program in India. The program is designed to strengthen customer relationships and expand cloud sales by allowing channel partners to provision, bundle, invoice, manage and support Microsoft cloud offerings including Microsoft Office 365, Windows Intune, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Azure, and CRM online subscriptions with greater ease and efficiency.

Microsoft India plans to make Indore the next destination for its Digital Experience Centre after Vadodara. Centre aims at teaching educational institutes use of cloud computing, thereby promoting Microsoft platform Edu-Cloud. Microsoft India Business Development, Director, Manohar Hotchandani said, “In MP we are evaluating Indore’s market and we found education is a big segment. Therefore we are planning to bring Edu-cloud and are in talks with various educational institutes.”

Software giant Microsoft is betting big on adoption of its Office solutions on smartphones and tablets in India as it launches the latest edition of the productivity software suite. “A big area of focus for us is smartphones and tablets. Smartphone market in India is booming and we want to showcase the ease with which users can work on documents across devices using the connected set of apps and services that make collaboration easier,” said Tyler Bryson, GM, Marketing & Operations, Microsoft.

Microsoft said that all users who have a subscription of Office 365 will get the new Office 2016 for free. “Automatic updates will begin rolling out to consumer subscribers next month,” the company said. “With the launch of Office 2016 we endeavor to provide our users with a connected set of apps and services designed for modern working and collaboration which they can access easily use across platforms and devices,” said Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Microsoft India.

Miami-headquartered affordable handset-maker BLU (Bold Like Us) on Tuesday entered the India market with the launch of two Windows-based smartphones – BLU Win HD LTE and BLU Win JR LTE – priced at Rs.7,999 and Rs.5,999 respectively. The BLU Win HD LTE will come with a 5-inch HD display and a 8-megapixel rear camera, Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor and have dual-SIM facility. The Win JR LTE will feature a 4.5-inch display, 1GB RAM and the same 410 Snapdragon processor. The rear five-megapixel camera will come with LED flash.

Microsoft India today said it is targeting small and medium-sized enterprises to expand the customer base of its cloud-based services in Madhya Pradesh. “Madhya Pradesh is among the 10 states having a huge number of small and medium-sized businesses. So we want to provide cloud-based services to these businesses at economical rate,” said Microsoft India Business Development Director Manohar Hotchandani.

SN International, a silver partner of Microsoft, is on track to grow its business by more than 200% over the next 12 months. This growth will be powered by adoption of Microsoft Office 365 by its customers. Office 365 offers SMBs productivity tools that help customers to increase collaboration amongst employees without the hassle of managing expensive IT infrastructure.

Microsoft Corp said it began the worldwide roll-out of Office 2016, the latest addition to its cloud-based subscription service Office 365. Office 2016 brings new versions of desktop apps for Windows including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook and Access and allows people to collaborate and work together. “These latest innovations take another big step forward in transforming Office from a familiar set of individual productivity apps to a connected set of apps and services designed for modern working, collaboration and teamwork,” Chief Executive Satya Nadella said.

The common theme at Dreamforce 2015 is soul, and how a company has heart. In a chat with Wired’s Jessi Hampel, Nadella showed its soul, or heart, a term that Benioff loosely describes as a company’s vision to help shape, change and influence the world for the better, by announcing a $75 million project to bring technology to schools. The soul for Microsoft is education.”Education is what’s going to make a difference,” Nadella effused. It is education that will help make a difference in the world, and Nadella’s vision is to help children participate in “the future economy.”