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Microsoft announced that its Xbox Music service has been integrated with the company’s cloud storage service, OneDrive. Any music file – be it mp3, m4a, or wma – can be accessed via the Music folder on OneDrive. The music file is playable on the Web or the Xbox Music app on Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, Xbox 360, and Xbox One for free – no Music Pass required.

Advaiya marked its presence in the Symposium on Project Management Practices 2015, organized by FICCI in partnership with PMI at theFICCI auditorium in Delhi. The symposium was organized to submit recommendations towards leveraging the science and art of project management for ‘Make in India’ combined with a supporting eco-system. Advaiya participated as a Microsoft EPM Partner in this event and represented Microsoft booth.

Microsoft has just made the Lumia 430 official. The smartphone is priced at $70 (approximately Rs 4,500), and the company has announced that it is coming to India next month. At this price tag, this is the cheapest Lumia smartphone. The Lumia 430 features a 4-inch WVGA (800×480 pixels) LCD display, and is powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 200 dual-core processor paired with 1GB RAM.

Microsoft has launched a Cloud Accelerator Program to boost cloud adoption among the government organizations and the BFSI segment in India. The announcement made at the 2015 Microsoft Azure Conference, is in sync with the company’s announcement to offer Azure and Office365 services from local data centers by end of 2015. The company has already on-boarded 15 channel partners including HCL, Wipro and Tech Mahindra, and plans to enable 10,000 SMBs from 250 cities across the country to the cloud.

As part of its mobile-first, cloud-first strategy, Microsoft has spent close to $4.5 billion in setting up 19 data centres across the globe, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, said. Three are in India and will be operational by the end of 2015, he added, while talking about cloud adoption, the need to push mobile handset numbers and the coming Windows 10.

In a move that helps solidify Microsoft’s attempt at being taken seriously by PC gamers, the company is partnering with Tencent to bring popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game League of Legends (LoL) to the Windows 10 store. This was announced on the company’s blog.

Software giant Microsoft, led by its CEO Satya Nadella, has developed yet another cloud tool that allows team members to share and collaborate on documents with one another. Part of Microsoft Office, the new tool called “Delve” surfaces the stuff one is interested in automatically. “It’s kind of like a Facebook news feed for work,” Nadella told CNN. “I can see all the work happening inside Microsoft, and it lights up based on what my topics of interest are. Think about how empowering it is to have that kind of transparency and access.”

Microsoft released a preview of the next generation of its popular corporate videoconferencing and instant messaging software. That software was formerly known as Lync but will now be called Skype for Business. The new Skype will help it fend-off Google and gain ground on Cisco, which is still the market leader.

Microsoft has launched a universal foldable keyboard that could be paired with most mobile device models. This device targets those customers who travel frequently or who use a tablet computer extensively for work or just love to operate the smartphone on the go. The Bluetooth-enabled keyboard works with all Android devices, Windows Phones and tablets as well as iOS powered iPhones and iPads.

eScan, one of the leading Anti-Virus and Content Security Solution providers, today announced it had attained Gold Competency. Phil Sorgen, Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft Corp. said, “By achieving a gold competency, partners have demonstrated the highest, most consistent capability and commitment to the latest Microsoft technology. These partners have extensive expertise that puts them in the top 1 percent of our partner ecosystem, and their proficiency will help customers drive innovative solutions on the latest Microsoft technology.”