EFY Times: Godaddy enables Gujarat Financial Services firm to improve collaboration and productivity

GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, announced that Vishal FinCap, a financial services firm in Gujarat, has improved collaboration and enhanced productivity among employees by using Microsoft Office 365 from GoDaddy. “We needed to ensure that critical client data was stored safely and to be able to access it from anywhere. We also wanted to improve collaboration. Office 365 from GoDaddy redefined flexibility for me,” said Mr. Patel, Founder of Vishal FinCap.

IndiaInfoline: Truecaller launches its premium features promotion for all Microsoft Lumia devices

Truecaller, a leading search technology company, announced the launch of its premium features promotion for all Microsoft Lumia devices in India. Over the next 6 months, all Microsoft Lumia device users in India will be able to enjoy Truecaller premium features for free, What’s more, the recently launched Lumia 435 and 532 has Truecaller pre-installed facilitating a plug and play experience for customers.

Business Standard: Rs.2,149 internet-ready phone from Microsoft

Microsoft launched its most affordable internet ready phone in India – the Nokia 215 Dual SIM – priced at Rs.2,149, a company statement said. “India is a ‘mobile-first’ market, and feature phones are the first port of access to internet for a large number of mobile users,” said Raghuvesh Sarup, director-marketing, Nokia India Sales, a subsidiary of Microsoft Mobiles Oy.

Economic Times: Microsoft to open datacentre in Pune

Microsoft today announced that it would be opening a datacentre in Pune by the end of the year, one of the three that it would be opening in India. Speaking at the launch of the Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Program, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, said, “The program is designed to help India move to the cloud and in turn, help ‘Make in India’ become a reality. This will open up new possibilities in e-governance, financial inclusion, healthcare and education.”

EFY Times: Dynamics Software celebrates their 10th anniversary

Victor Morales, Vice President Microsoft Dynamics Partner Sales & Programs, said, “I am delighted to help kick-off the celebrations of Dynamics Software’s 10th Anniversary. Dynamics Software has been recognized by Microsoft as a high-performing partner that continues to grow and succeed by delivering great value to customers.”

Times of India: Ford to use Microsoft platform for connected-car services

Ford Motor Company is turning to one of its early technology partners, Microsoft, to help expand the automaker’s connected car services. Among the features that Ford plans to offer later this year through its new Service Delivery Network is the ability to automatically update its new Sync 3 infotainment system wirelessly. The service will run on Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure platform.

Mint: Microsoft plans Windows 10 release in 190 nations this summer

Microsoft Corp.—working to overhaul its operating system software in a world dominated by mobile computing—said it plans to release the new Windows 10 in 190 countries this summer. The software would be released in 111 languages, the company said in a statement that coincided with its Windows Hardware Engineering Community conference in Shenzhen, China.

CIO.IN: Microsoft launches Office 2016 developer preview, with a focus on business

Microsoft is going heavy on enterprise features in its first public peek at Office 2016, which is available now to Office 365 Business subscribers. Developers and IT pros can sign up for the preview through the Microsoft Connect website. Data Loss Protection for Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Outlook technical improvements, new deployment features and a host of other features are now on Office 2016 developer preview.