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Twitter has finally rolled-out a major update to its Windows Phone app, seven months since the last update

Small and medium businesses are expected to spend about USD 18.5 billion (Rs 1.11 lakh crore) on information technology by FY2018, driven by the growing adoption of cloud and mobility solutions, a Nasscom study has said. According to the study, conducted by research firm Frost & Sullivan (F&S), Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs) spent about Rs 47,200 crore (USD 8.7 billion) on IT in FY2013.

Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, has said that it expects the Union budget to unveil a policy guidance about the use of information technology for inclusive growth. “I am keen to see if there will be any policy guidance about use of information technology for inclusive growth especially in the areas of better citizen services delivery and governance,” Microsoft India Chairman Bhaskar Pramanik said.

Microsoft has begun rolling out the one terabyte of storage it promised to users of OneDrive for Business two months ago. OneDrive for Business lets employees store, share and sync work documents. Most Office 365 subscription plans pitched to small-, mid- and large-sized business include the storage service.

The ‘Great Places to Work’ Institute recently launched its annual list of best places to work in India. In its eleventh year, it saw a participation of over 600 organizations in 20 different sectors. The study used employee centric framework which measures the level of pride, trust and camaraderie in an organization.

Microsoft India Chairman, Bhaskar Pramanik has outlined his expectations from the upcoming union budget. Policy guidance from the government on use of information technology for inclusive growth focused in areas of better citizen services delivery and governance are at the top of the list.

Microsoft India has invested around $100 million in educational projects over the last 10 years, most recently launching its IT Academy Program in partnership with Rotary International. The program reaches out to over 150,000 students and 7,500 educators in 150 Delhi NCR schools. “IT literacy is one of the biggest issues, and the work on this front has to go beyond just providing a computer” said Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Microsoft India at the MOU signing.

Microsoft is expected to ship six security updates to customers next week, patching all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) and nearly all supported editions of Windows. The IE update, one of two classified as “critical” -Microsoft’s most serious threat ranking — will patch IE6 on Windows Server 2003, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10 and the newest, IE11

Security announcements revealed that both outbound and inbound email on Outlook will have improved encryption using Transport Layer Security (TLS). Microsoft has also enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) encryption support for sending and receiving mail between email providers and in its OneDrive service stepping up security measures for its customers.

Beginning Friday, Microsoft’s Outlook Web App integrates features that allow saving changes in documents attached to emails – all without the hassle of downloading the files, saving changes, and emailing them back. Instead, if you open a document that’s been attached to an email within Outlook’s Web app, the corresponding version of the Office Web app will open the document automatically. The idea is to cut down on all of the unnecessary steps involved in editing documents ‘offline’.