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If you do subscribe to Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription service, obtaining the new software should be a snap: just surf to Microsoft’s Office account page and follow the instructions. Students can also check Office.com/student to see if they qualify for a free or discounted copy.

With versions for all three major desktop platforms, and for the main three mobile platforms, Skype is the leader. It’s easy to pickup your mobile and make a video call to a friend on their PC, phone or tablet. With the ability to share files as well as talk to people, Skype has become a major collaboration tool over the past few years, its main rival in this space being Google Hangouts. As a cross-platform solution, Skype is unmatched.

FreeCharge has revamped its app for the Windows Store, re-envisioned from ground up for consumers using the Microsoft OS. Harish Vaidyanathan, Director – ISV Business, Developer Experience, Microsoft Corp. (India) said,” The revamped Freecharge app on the Windows Store has been developed keeping the consumer in mind. The app offers various enhancements for the consumer that integrate well with the Windows OS making the consumer experience absolutely seamless.”

Gears of War Ultimate Edition is one of the releases headlining what Microsoft is calling “the greatest games lineup in Xbox history.” It’s a remaster of 2006’s Gears of War – an Xbox 360 game that made its way to PC in 2007. Like most remasters nowadays, it features a slew of technological advances and extra content.

Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu launched a mobile ticketing app for unreserved tickets that will cover 35 stations between the 123 km long Churchgate -Dhauroad suburban section in Western Railway. The app, which is for both Android and Windows platforms, can be downloaded from Google Play Store or Windows Store by the user.

Microsoft Corp is readying to deploy its new operating system (OS), Windows 10, on the cloud. Labelled “Windows as a service”, the company will provide free upgrades to users of Windows 7 and 8.1. Microsoft has also assured users that it will keep the new OS updated for the supported lifetime of a device for free. Windows 10 debuts on 29 July.

Intel Security has launched its new Microsoft Office 365 Channel Kit, which is designed to be a “grab and go kit” for the channel. Intel Security A/NZ channel sales director, Luke Power, told that the kit includes information for the channel on how to get started with Microsoft Office 365, in addition to a conversation guide, sales essentials presentation for partners, a co-branded email template, a phishing quiz how to guide, a phishing tool, battlecard, and additional materials such as solution briefs and whitepapers.

At the end of 2014, Microsoft bought Acompli, creators of a popular email app that it quickly rebranded as Outlook. The familiar name drew in more users and also gave IT teams a set of expectations about the security and management options a product called Outlook would have. The Outlook app demonstrated that Microsoft was prepared to prioritize the user experience.

Microsoft has announced that it has completely redesigned Bing Maps. Microsoft said “it listened to users across the globe and what they love, and what they struggle with when using map services.The new Bing Maps is designed so you can search, view and share multiple places at one time, see trusted reviews and photos from partners such as Yelp, get access to a rich set of visuals and information on the places you plan to visit, make it easy to plan your travel times and more.”

Tossup, a new Microsoft app for Android and iOS, aims to make it easier for users to poll their friends and get together.Tossup lets people create quick polls and share them with their friends. The polls can be simple, consisting of a single yes or no question, or they can be more detailed. The new app is a product of the Microsoft Garage, a program at Microsoft that lets employees pursue new ideas.