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Microsoft India, in partnership with Ubisoft, announced a new exclusive Xbox One “Assassin’s Creed” bundle with Kinect, priced at Rs 45,990 and available exclusively on Amazon. The exclusive bundle will also include a copy of a previous Ubisoft flagship, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Anshu Mor, Interactive Entertainment Business director at Microsoft India, said, “Assassin’s Creed is one of the biggest franchises on our platform and this unique partnership defines our commitment to gamers in India and enhances the overall gaming ecosystem in the country.”

According to an agreement signed between Microsoft and Opera Software, from the first quarter of 2015, people who access Nokia Store from Series 40, Series 60, Symbian, Asha and Nokia X devices will be automatically redirected to Opera Mobile Store, where they will be offered the opportunity to become customers of Opera Mobile Store and have access to tens of thousands of apps for their Nokia phones. “We continue to sell and support classic Nokia devices, which remain popular in many parts of the world,” said Rich Bernardo, Vice-President – Phones, Microsoft.

Microsoft released two new features that its channel partners said will enable them to migrate more customers to Azure: an upgraded identity management product and tighter integration between Windows and Docker. Microsoft Identity Manager, released in public preview, replaces Forefront Identity Manager with a more advanced solution. The new secure identity self-service helps users manage digital identities for use in the cloud and offers enhanced administrator security, according to Microsoft.

Open Source India, Asia’s biggest convention on open source technology, proved its mettle yet again in its 11th edition, which was held in Bengaluru from 7-8th November, 2014. The two-day event witnessed a lot of fruitful discussions, interactions, workshops, that aimed to bridge the gap in between the industry head-honchos and the community. Balaji Kesavaraj, Director, Platform Strategy & Marketing, Microsoft India, said, “This year we offered some real hands-on experience showing how interoperability works and we are glad that we were well received at Open Source India.”

When Ed Bott recently wrote about how Microsoft really is taking a new path, he mentioned many important points, but missed perhaps the most important technical point of all: Microsoft is finally really embracing open-source software. Over the years, Microsoft has, despite fighting with Linux and other open-source programs, never actually shied away from using open-source software when it was to the company’s advantage. They just never talked about it.

Real Madrid says it has reached a sponsorship deal with American software giant Microsoft. In a brief statement, the club said the deal will be signed by Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Microsoft vice president Orlando Ayala.

In an official announcement, Microsoft stated that Nokia Lumia devices running on Windows 8 will go on to get an upgrade to Windows 10. This was announced on the official Microsoft Lumia Twitter account, as a response to a customer’s question. The company says Microsoft 10 will unify all Microsoft devices across form factors. Apart from PCs, laptops and smartphones, the new operating system will be available on gaming consoles and wearables.

Microsoft has released a test version of Skype that lets people make Internet calls from web browsers, eliminating the need to install special applications. “It’s perfect if you prefer using the web rather than an app: perhaps you’re sitting at a computer that doesn’t already have Skype downloaded,” Microsoft said in a blog post. Skype for Web will be available to a small number of existing users at first and will be rolled out globally in the coming months, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft released both Visual Studio 2015 Preview and .NET 2015 Preview with a free Visual Studio Community 2013, Visual Studio 2013 Update 4, and an expansion of Visual Studio Online, among several other updates. The newly added tools in Visual Studio 2015 Preview for Windows Presentation Foundation development include Visual Diagnostics tool, Timeline tool and a revamped Blend designer experience.

The bull run in Microsoft’s stock this year has helped the tech giant surpass Exxon Mobil and seize the rank of the second most valuable company, behind Apple Inc. Under new CEO Satya Nadella, Microsoft has pledged to return the focus on mobile technology and cloud computing. His efforts have fuelled a stock surge that drove Microsoft’s total market value above $410 billion leapfrogging Exxon’s value of $404 billion.