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At gaming festival Pax Prime 2015, Razer announced the Wildcat controller for the Xbox One. It’s a tournament-grade console controller with multi-function buttons. In addition to this, any button on the controller can be re-bound for easy access. It’s 25 percent lighter than other tournament-grade controllers and has an ergonomic shape that enhances responsiveness and an easy to access control panel that lets gamers create dedicated button profiles for different games on the fly.

A video game that fights tuberculosis by raising awareness about the disease and tests a mathematical model that predicts its spread has been developed. The video game, named Project Sanitarium, lets players battle tuberculosis, treating individual patients across the globe with limited resources. The game is powered by Microsoft mobile and cloud technology so players can receive real-time updates on the virtual patients they are treating.

Less than a month after rollout of Windows 10, Microsoft has shared that its new operating system had already been installed on 75 million devices. And, interestingly nearly 1.5 million of those systems are running Windows 10 Enterprise. Business customers have always been Microsoft’s biggest revenue generator. Enterprise uptake is critical to the success of Microsoft’s new operating platform, and if numbers are anything to go by then 1.5 million in just a month is encouraging.

India is aiming to build 100 smart cities in 5 years. This requires a comprehensive development in Economic Structure. All are important in improving the quality of life. Neeraj Gill, GM, Public Sector, Microsoft India said, “One of the things we need to look at is what essentially are the challenges which sit before the city planner in setting out build what is a smart city. According to me the major challenges are Time, Funding and Technology.”

Microsoft has announced a new app that makes taking screenshots on touch-enabled Windows 10 computers a lot easier. Microsoft Snip, available as beta app, presents an easier way to take screenshots, annotate them and even add audio to them. It is touch-friendly so it is easier to select than a desktop app and has full pen support so the users can write or draw directly on the screenshot.

Apple announced its September 9 event and said it would be live-streamed on a range of Apple devices, while Windows 10 users will also be able to access the stream. This announcement probably comes as Apple realises that Microsoft’s new Web browser – built in a collaborative fashion – feature runs some of the same technologies as Safari. Apple’s Safari, QuickTime, iOS, and OS X use HTTP Live Streaming technology. Popular Web browsers Chrome, Firefox, and Opera don’t support this technology. Microsoft Edge, on the other hand, does.

With an eye on people on the move, public lender Indian Bank has launched IndPay, a mobile application service that enables its customers to operate bank accounts from anywhere, anytime. IndPay can be operated through smartphones compatible with Android, Windows and iOS mobile operating systems.

SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2015 concluded in Bangalore. The 3-day summit was organized by SQLServerGeeks.com and sponsored by Microsoft, HP, SanDisk, Melissa Data and S&P Capital IQ, the first ever such summit in Asia is featuring SQL Star Speakers such as Denny Cherry, Benjamin Nevarez, Praveen Srivatsa, Alberto Ferrari, Joey D Antoni, Dave Dustin, Vic Parmar, Andreas Volter, Stuart Padley, Lara Rubbelke, Scott Klein, Microsoft SQL Data Platform among others.

One of the biggest technology play¬ers Microsoft sees the world of IT converging into one single platform. Srikanth Karnakota, Country Head Mi¬crosoft India, at the SQL Server Geeks 2015 laid em¬phasis on how Microsoft’s SQL Server business in India is growing by leaps and bounds. Microsoft SQL Server is a re¬lational database management system developed by Microsoft. He said that IT professionals and developers who represent the two major sides of the IT world are being brought to¬gether. “The advent of cloud is making this marriage possi¬ble,” he said.