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Office Lens is a free app that works like scanning apps you may have used already – to capture a document or a whiteboard, and they’re stored in the cloud and made searchable thanks to OCR. The difference with Office Lens is that you don’t just get flat images of your documents. Office Lens converts the image to editable Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files, in native Office formats, saved to OneDrive so they’re accessible from any other device.

Microsoft is making more accommodations for developers in both the JavaScript and Visual Studio realms, including promoting the development of “universal experiences”. With a preview of WinJS 4.0 (Windows Library for JavaScript 4.0), Microsoft wants to enable universal experiences, which can run on a range of form factors, including phones, tablets, PCs, or even TVs. Microsoft also has referred to this strategy as universal applications, part of the company’s Windows 10 battle plan.

According to Microsoft Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, a future that includes an open-source Windows could happen. “It’s definitely possible,” Russinovich reportedly told an audience at the ChefCon conference in Santa Clara this week. “It’s a new Microsoft. Every conversation you can imagine about what should we do with our software – open versus not-open versus services – has happened.”

Microsoft updated its Outlook email apps for the Android and iOS platforms with a list of new features like Unified Address Book and Search Directory, apart from Calendar improvements and more. The updated Microsoft Outlook apps for Android (version 1.1.5) and iOS (version 1.1.3) are available for download via their respective app stores.

Microsoft announced an update for Skype for Android and iOS, while also announcing an update for its Skype Qik video app with new video effects for the Android, iOS, and Windows Phone platforms. In Skype 5.3 for Android, Microsoft has made some ‘big changes’ under the chat section of the app. On the other hand, Skype 5.12 for iOS will be getting support for 12 new languages in the coming weeks, including Hindi.

HP has launched eight new enterprise-focused mobile devices including Windows and Android tablets, 2-in-1 devices, and notebook PCs in the Indian market. The company’s Pro Slate 8 and Pro Slate 12 are high-definition screen-equipped commercial-grade Android tablets. The HP Elite x2 1011 G1, which has also been introduced as part of the new range, is a lightweight, 11.6-inch diagonal 2-in-1 Windows device running Windows 8 Pro.

Microsoft unveiled Lumia 640 and Lumia 640 XL smartphones at MWC last month and is now ready to launch them in India. The company has sent out invites for a launch event on April 7. Sporting a 5-inch HD display, the Lumia 640 comes across as an upgrade to the Lumia 635, the company’s low-end LTE smartphone. The slightly higher-end Lumia 640 XL comes with a 5.7-inch display.

Microsoft launched a revolutionary new OS for their Lumia smartphone line, titled MS-DOS Mobile. The company says it’s trying to “go back to where productivity began for millions of people. Whether you’re going back to BASIC, or simply booting into DOS for the first time, MS-DOS Mobile marks the next step in Microsoft’s reinvention of productivity”.