NDTV: Microsoft says premium Lumia smartphones with Windows 10 coming soon

Microsoft’s Terry Myerson, Executive Vice President of the Windows and Devices Group, while speaking at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference, said, “Last week we announced a focusing on our Lumia lineup and soon you will see premium new Lumias designed for Windows 10.” Additionally, the Redmond giant has confirmed that it will announce several devices at this year’s IFA.

Channel World: Microsoft to kick off Windows 10 ad campaign next week

Microsoft will still kick off a global campaign to convince customers to migrate to the new operating system. The campaign, dubbed “Upgrade Your World,” will run for a year, the same timeline for the free offer to upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, Microsoft said. “Television and online ad campaigns supporting Windows 10 and its upgrade path will debut on July 20 in the U.S., and July 29 globally,” said, Yusuf Mehdi, an Executive in the Windows and Devices Group.

The Hindu: India-based firm wins Microsoft Country Partner of Year Award

Comparex India Pvt. Ltd, along with 110 awardees, was awarded the prestigious Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for 2015 at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2015. “As our ‘Gold Cloud Partner’, Comparex is the trusted advisor for its customers and has a track record of a zero compete loss to date,” Microsoft said.

First Post: Microsoft to offer $120,000 worth of free Azure cloud services to Indian startups

Microsoft has launched the BizSpark Plus programme for startups in India. As part of this programme, it will offer $120,000 per year of free Azure Cloud services to each of the qualified startups. The startups can use $10,000 worth of credits monthly, to invest in Microsoft services to power their business. In addition to Azure services, startups will receive the full suite of development and test software and tools such as Visual Studio, Windows and Office.

CRN: Microsoft bakes Skype, security, analytics into single Office 365 SKU

Microsoft is putting telephony, security and analytics into a new Office 365 bundle – baking in features typically offered separately or by third-party vendors and IT service providers. The E5 Office 365 Enterprise Suite will be available “before the end of this calendar year”, said John Case, Corporate Vice President of Office Marketing at Microsoft.

CRN: Microsoft ups its cool factor with these 10 far-out R&D projects

Microsoft’s R&D business packs a serious wow factor. The 10 more head-turning Microsoft R&D projects apart from HoloLens include: Project Adam –Microsoft’s deep learning IA project, Hyperlapse, sewage-powered Microsoft data center, AutoCharge, Kinect, Micro:bit platform, 3-D audio development, universal translator and Magic Scarf.

Economic Times: Satya Nadella spells out Microsoft’s bold ambitions for future

Underscoring three bold ambitions for Microsoft, the tech giant’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella today said the company will focus on personal computing, reinvention of productivity and business process and building an intelligent cloud platform. Nadella, was addressing over 12,000 Microsoft partners, senior company executives, technology experts and analysts during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015.

The Economic Times: Microsoft bats for White-Fi to help digital India

Microsoft says its newly-developed White-Fi technology can provide free WiFi connectivity to a large section of the Indian population, thus, giving a boost to the Prime Minister’s Digital India initiative. “White-Fi or TV White-Space technology has potential to provide free connectivity to large sections of the Indian population through wider coverage and economical deployment and licence-free access,” says, Prashant Shukla, National Technology Officer at Microsoft India.

Business Standard: India among 13 countries to host Windows 10 launch

India will be one of the 13 countries to host the launch of Windows 10 on July 29. “We will celebrate the unprecedented role our biggest fans — more than 5 million Windows Insiders — played in the development of Windows 10 at special events in 13 cities around the world… Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing, New Delhi, Dubai, Nairobi, Berlin, Johannesburg, Madrid, London, Sao Paolo, and New York City,” Microsoft said.