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“Our digital literacy, skill building and entrepreneurship programs have touched 5 crore people in 20 states across India over the last decade. Continuing this commitment, we will soon commence a large scale digital literacy project under the global Microsoft YouthSpark program for marginalized communities, with a special focus on girls and young women. This program will run across 70 YouthSpark-Project Jyoti centers and is expected to train more than 35,000 young people in the next 18 months,” informed Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.

Xbox along with the revolutionary Oculus devices is in talks to bring virtual reality right into our bedrooms. Oculus will pump in $10 Million to develop new virtual games for its device Oculus Rift interchangeable and playable using the Xbox One controller wirelessly right out of the box. The rift will work at its best on the upcoming Windows 10 platform.

Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner coached the company’s partners on the strategy they should employ to go win business in 2016 from rivals like Google, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Apple and Salesforce. In his keynote at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Turner touted Microsoft’s new openness to integrating with products from just about all those other vendors.

Skype has released a new update for its Android app with new features, which makes it easier for the users to sign back in after they have logged out by memorizing their login details including their password. The users just have to tap on an arrow button. However, if the users wish they can switch back to the old login process by going in the Privacy section of the Settings menu.

Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, in a recent interview talked about the company’s plans for Windows Phones in depth. Nadella stressed that despite recent announcements the company is still focused on its mobile-first strategy, and said, “The free upgrade for Windows 10 is meant to improve our phone position. If somebody wants to know whether I’m committed to Windows Phone, they should think about what I just did with the free upgrade to Windows.”

At the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015, Gavriella Schuster, General Manager, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft said,”We have a great market in India and (it is) super strong. We have really tremendous partners who have been with us for a long time and are transforming very quickly in the cloud infrastructure.”

Industry leaders welcomed the launch of initiatives aimed at scaling up skill development activities in the country saying these were crucial to support growth across sectors and the economy, and will help youth obtain vocational training to secure jobs. Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman of Microsoft India said, “The launch of Skill India Mission today marks a renewed effort to capitalise on India’s demographic dividend and create a large pool of skilled workforce in India.”

Talking about Satya Nadella’s approach to competition in an interview, Microsoft India’s Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik, says, “I’ve worked with Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella during my four years at Microsoft. I respect both of them and have learnt a lot from each of them. Satya is more like Bill Gates. He understands the power of technology and what the future can be. He has been coming out with innovations at a more rapid pace than we did in the previous regime. He is taking tough decisions.”

Microsoft has fused a number of its new data processing technologies into a single package designed to help organizations get more value from their growing piles of data. The new suite, called Cortana Analytics, is designed to “democratize big data,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, during the opening keynote of the company’s World Wide Partner Conference

With the launch of Skype for Business, Microsoft allows businesses to expand their communications while maintaining enterprise-class controls. Among the many benefits of this iteration is that employees can now more easily connect to internal and external users, while at the same time reduce the administrative efforts required to manage different IM and calling tools.