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India’s bid for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2015, the global student technology competition, is a world-first intelligent personal assisting device for the blind. Called Manovue, it is a multi-utility wearable haptic device which enables the user to read any printed text by moving his finger over the text and helps him move around freely outside well-known environments by providing haptic feedback.

Wipro announced a strategic alliance and partnership for its Microsoft Licensing Solution Provider (LSP) business in India with COMPAREX, a global IT service provider specializing in software procurement, license management and technology consulting. Wipro has been one of the largest Microsoft LSPs in India for over a decade.

Microsoft has announced that the final build of Windows 10 will be available worldwide starting July 29. The operating system will cost $110 for the home edition and $199 for the Pro edition. This will however be applicable only to new users, as pre-existing users of Windows 7 & 8 will be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for free.

Microsoft will allow customers to participate in the private preview of Microsoft Azure from Indian data centres in July. This will give them a head-start to run trials of their apps on Microsoft Azure from local infrastructure. “Services from local data centres will open infinite computing capacity for Indian government departments, banks, telecom companies and enterprises or all sizes,” said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Group.

Cloud Foundry, the open source PaaS that’s become a major part of IBM’s Bluemix offering, is now showing up in an unlikely place: Microsoft Azure. In a blog post, Ning Kuang, senior program manager for Microsoft Azure, provided word of the first public preview of Cloud Foundry on Azure. In keeping with Microsoft’s ongoing pitch for Azure as a hybrid environment via Azure Service Fabric, the blog says it “enables our customers to deploy Cloud Foundry on Azure and extend their workloads from any public or private cloud to Azure.”

The International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners India (IAMCP) and Microsoft organized ‘Online Deep Dive’ on May 27. The theme of the online event was ‘Enterprise Mobility Services (EMS)’. Bapi Chakraborty, Senior Partner Technical Consultant from Microsoft Global Partner Services – Asia Pacific, explained to partners the key pillars of EMS. He also talked about Mobile Device Management, Mobile device security, configuration and control.

iYogi has launched the Digital Service Cloud Open IoT Platform, the first enterprise-grade IoT platform from India, and built on Microsoft Azure. Anil Reddy, Head – Strategy, Microsoft India, said, “This will jumpstart innovation in IoT, amongst businesses of all sizes and maturity, across a variety of segments. This would help them serve their customers better by building on newer scenarios and capabilities enabled by IoT and Microsoft Azure.”

Lenovo will be one of the first to offer a Windows 10 tablet, with a new ThinkPad device that’s slated to arrive in August, aimed at business users and priced from $499. The ThinkPad 10 will be available with a choice of quad-core Intel Atom processors, either 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and 64GB or 128GB of internal storage. It’s 10.1-inch screen will have a resolution of 1920 pixels by 1200, and battery life is up to 10 hours.