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SAKRI IT Solutions, a Pune based value added distribution company has collaborated with Microsoft and Intel to launch Windows based tablets powered by Intel Processors in India, Malaysia and Bangladesh under the brand name “WINTAB”. Ravi Lakshman, CEO, SAKRI is very upbeat on this new venture. SAKRI will be working exclusively on the Windows platform with Intel Processor based devices and intend to be market leaders in this domain. SAKRI will be augmenting its strengths in the retail, e-commerce and SME segment by working with various ISVs to enhance their offering capabilities to cater retail, BFSI and education sector.

With the Indian Real Estate market in general, and the Bengaluru market specifically, poised for growth, Metadata Technologies, a leading provider of Microsoft Dynamics customer relation management (CRM) solutions and services in India and the Middle East, announced the global launch of its new generation Online Real Estate CRM solution ‘Property-xRM’ built on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform.

Microsoft plans to open-source the framework that helps developers of cloud services such as those behind the popular Halo 4 game. Building cloud services for millions of users means connecting and coordinating thousands of servers, and handling tasks and information across all of them. Project Orleans is a framework built by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research using .NET, designed so developers who aren’t distributed systems experts can build cloud services that scale to cope with high demand and still keep high performance.

Microsoft announced a new step toward real-time translation, launching a Spanish-English test program using its Skype messaging service. “Today, we are excited to announce the first phase of the Skype Translator preview program,” said Microsoft’s Gurdeep Pall. “The preview program will kick off with two spoken languages, Spanish and English. Skype Translator will open up endless possibilities for people around the world to connect, communicate and collaborate; people will no longer be hindered by geography and language.”

Microsoft has just pushed a major update to its Azure Cloud Services. The update brings new changes to Azure Premium Storage, Azure SQL Database and Azure Active Directory, and much more. This includes improvement in Azure Active directory and general availability of Azure RemoteApp. Companies can now give corporate resources access to their employees with Azure Active Directory.

Microsoft Ventures India is looking to take its JumpStart start-up helpline to the next level by building it up as an outbound call engine that could be used by entrepreneurs to generate business leads. Rajinish Menon, Director, Startups at Microsoft Ventures India, said, “As a pilot, we will offer startups from the accelerator batches access to the outbound engine. We are open to integrating the service with some of the citizenship services offered by governments where JumpStart professionals can answer entrepreneurship questions.”

“Windows 10 unlocks new experiences for customers to work, play and connect. Windows 10 embodies what our customers (both consumers and enterprises) demand and what we will deliver,” state Microsoft’s official blog. For the tech major, the Windows segment now constitutes the third largest money generator for Microsoft, behind its Office and its enterprise software operations. Microsoft’s Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner has said the coming Windows 10 OS as being “the best enterprise release we’ve ever done.”

Amazon has announced some great discounts on games for the PlayStation3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, and 3DS consoles. The sale will run through till next week on Saturday, December 20, 2014.

On 11 December, Microsoft announced two new updates to Bing search – international hotel booking support across 22 countries including India. In partnership with TripAdvisor, Bing will now allow users to internationally book hotels across 22 different countries in 14 different languages. Users will also directly get rates, and reviews for different hotels from Bing search via TripAdvisor.

Mumbai-based Covacsis Technologies has developed an Intelligent Plant Framework (IPF) solution using Microsoft SQL Server 2014 that brings Internet of Things to the shop floor in process and discrete manufacturing. “Most of our customers are already on the Microsoft technology platform and our offering is aligned to their IT infrastructure roadmap,” said Tarun Mishra, Founder and CEO, Covacsis Technologies. Tyler Bryson, General Manager, Marketing and Operations, Microsoft India, said, “One third of the virtual machines running in Microsoft Azure are using SQL Server 2014. SQL Server 2014 is fast becoming the database of choice for SMBs as well as large enterprises.”