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Government involvement to raise IT spending is something that companies like Microsoft appear to be counting on for the coming year. Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, said, “Programs such as Digital India, smart cities and Skill India require creation of technological infrastructure that needs budgetary support. A policy framework for industry and SMEs in particular that encourages innovation and adoption of technology can boost the Make in India initiative.”

Microsoft is looking to improve Web performance in Windows 10 by bringing in Mozilla’s asm.js JavaScript subset for inclusion in its Chakra JavaScript engine. Delivering an interoperable and specification-compliant JavaScript engine with the performance for modern experiences has been a key goal for since the inception of Chakra, Guareth Seth and Ed Maurer of the Chakra team said.

With enterprises rushing to embrace DevOps processes, Chef Software reached an agreement to advance its longstanding partnership with Microsoft by directly engaging the software giant’s network of cloud partners and jointly going to market. “This is really the big next step in the relationship with Microsoft and Chef,” Jay Wampold, Vice President of Marketing at Chef.

Microsoft is working on a location sharing app named ‘People Sense’ which would allow users to chat and share their real-time location with friends and family members. The app will also integrate with Bing Maps.

Microsoft updated its OneNote for iPad note-taking app with handwriting ability and optical character recognition (OCR) for images. With the Microsoft OneNote for iPad version 2.9 (can be downloaded via App Store), users can now write and draw directly into notes.

Powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM and backed up by an 8GB of internal storage, the Microsoft Lumia 532 is a replacement for your old Android smartphone. The Microsoft Lumia 532 is now available for purchase in the country at Rs 6,499.

Microsoft has expanded the data-analysis offerings on its Azure cloud, offering a machine learning service to help organizations derive more insight from mountains of unstructured data. The new service is designed to reduce the amount of work needed to deploy machine learning. “Our focus has been simplicity, simplicity, simplicity,” said T. K. Rengarajan, Microsoft’s vice president of engineering for data platform, cloud and enterprise.

Microsoft Devices has announced a cash back offer of Rs 7,000 on its premium devices – Lumia 830 and 930 – as part of its Holi promotions. The cash back amount will be offered upfront to all consumers who walk in to a retail store starting February 20.

Microsoft Ventures partnered with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) in September 2014 to set up a GenNext Innovation Hub, an incubator for startups, in Navi Mumbai. The first batch, comprising 11 start-ups, ended its 19-week workshop last month. Rajinish Menon, Director, Microsoft Ventures, said, “These start-ups have been experiencing tremendous growth in terms of clientele and product development. We will continue to work with these start-ups as they evolve into billion dollar companies of future.”