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Leveraging Microsoft’s cloud solutions—Office 365 and Azure in the last 12 months—Bitscape Infotech, a Microsoft Gold Competency Partner has witnessed 140 per cent growth and is expecting to record revenue of Rs 40 crore by end of this financial year. Manisha Sood, Director-SMB, Microsoft India, said, “Cloud is becoming the platform of choice for businesses of all sizes, across verticals. We aim at reaching out to customers across the nation with our partner network to help them realize the true potential of cloud.”

Head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, has offered a preview of the Xbox One’s upcoming screenshot feature via his Twitter account. “Nice to finally be doing this on my Xbox One dev kit,” he said, with an image attached that showed screenshot and recording commands overlaid on top of a test app.

All that’s standing between you and Microsoft’s Consumer Technical Preview for Office 2016 is an NDA. After launching an early, limited preview of the touch-optimized Office 2016 suite, Microsoft is opening up its program to allow anyone who agrees to a non-disclosure agreement the ability to download the software and test it before it goes on sale.

Microsoft has updated its VoIP and messaging app, Skype, for both the Android and iOS platforms. While the latest update for Skype for Android brings the app version to 5.2, the iPhone version now reaches version 5.10. Android users using Skype’s latest version can share images and photos in a chat even when the recipient is offline.

With Satya Nadella as CEO, Microsoft has made great strides over the last year—changing its focus and making itself more relevant in the new mobile-first world. Here are some reasons for Nadella’s success in the past one year, how he is bringing some radical changes in the organization and the road ahead.

Acer has announced its newest 2-in-1 hybrid tablet called Acer One. The device runs on a Windows 8.1 operating system and comes with features like Microsoft InstantGo, which can instantly start up the computer from sleep, refresh data in real-time and become an efficient power saver when you’re away from a wall charging port.

“Microsoft is adding nearly 2000 customers in India every month for its ‘commercial cloud’ even as there is a ‘gold rush’ for adoption of cloud-based information technology services by clients,” said, S Somasegar, Microsoft Corporate Vice-President (Developer Division). With over 250 million Indians using Internet-connected devices, there is a huge demand for cloud services.

Microsoft has started updating its Intune IT management service on a monthly basis. The first iteration of the Intune monthly updates includes greater support for Windows software running on third-party devices such as Android and Apple iOS devices. Additional security features have also been added for Windows 8.1 computers and phones.

VP of Microsoft’s Operating Systems Group Joe Belfiore took to Twitter to confirm that Windows 10 for phones will be available for 512MB Windows phone devices. The features may differ depending on the phones, and the roll out will be variable as well.