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Mumbai based Web Werks India, a leading web hosting and Data center solutions provider, will open a cloud-ready data center in Navi-Mumbai. The company has also partnered with Microsoft Azure and vNext. Web Werks with Microsoft Azure and vNext sees breadth of opportunities for ISVs and SI in cloud as well as in the adapting Data Center industry.

Software giant Microsoft will launch the latest version of its operating system, Windows 10, on July 29 across 190 countries. “Windows 10 will be available … as a free upgrade to customers running on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1,” Microsoft said in a statement. “Windows 10 marks the beginning of a new era of personal technology, designed to empower people to do great things.”

Announcing the acquisition of productivity app Wunderlist, Microsoft stated, “Customers can expect the app to remain free in all of its existing markets. There will be no price changes for Wunderlist Pro or Wunderlist for Business customers and the service will continue to support a wide range of third-party apps and integrated services. In the months to come, we’ll share what’s in store as we build on and apply Wunderlist’s innovations to Microsoft’s apps and services.”

Outlook.com users are getting a redesigned Skype experience that will run alongside their inboxes on the web. The new design, which Microsoft announced Wednesday, puts users’ Skype contacts, messaging and video chat in a pane to the right of the inbox. One-on-one conversations and group chats are displayed in a column of bubbles along the right-hand side of the window, so users can get easy access to them.

The new Infosys website runs running on the updated version of content management solution, i.e. Sharepoint 2013, and the infrastructure is hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud platform in US and Europe data centers, addressed as primary and secondary setup. The new website provides better user experience across different devices – desktops, tablets and mobiles with performance improvement of 60%.

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.