Recent News

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.

Lenovo and Microsoft, at Lenovo Tech World, announced a collaboration to transform the way people find their content in a new, more personal way with Cortana and REACHit. Lenovo REACHit extends the search capabilities of Cortana for Windows 10 devices with REACHit’s ability to search for content across any connected Lenovo PC or tablet device running Windows 10 and many major cloud services.

Microsoft’s fun new toy is being folded into everything. After introducing a dedicated site for the company’s HowOldRobot and then rolling out a Windows Phone app, the face age-guessing machine is now live in Bing’s image search.

Cisco announced an extension of its cloud and data center relationship with Microsoft to include a new technology platform designed to accelerate service delivery and streamline the journey to the Intercloud for cloud providers. Together, Cisco and Microsoft are helping our partners evolve with current market demand and rapidly shifting customer needs,” said Aziz Benmalek, general manager, hosting service providers, Microsoft.

Microsoft is enacting policies for its Windows Store that are designed to make it easier for users to find quality apps, and also clamp down on developers who abuse keywords to take undue advantage of the Store’s search results. “When there are many apps that do not provide differentiated value, some may be removed from the Store,” Bernardo Zamora, a product manager on the Windows Apps and Store team, said in a blog post.

Microsoft, after announcing partnerships with Cyanogen and Samsung to get its productivity app suite pre-installed on their devices, has now expanded its strategic agreements to add 20 more partners including global players – LG and Sony. The 20 new OEM partners will pre-install Microsoft’s productivity applications and services – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive and Skype – on their Android tablets in the future.