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India has some of the world’s best developers and they have huge advantage over start-ups in other countries, believes Microsoft, engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services. Joseph Landes, General Manager, Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft India, said, “Indian start-ups have huge advantage over start-ups in other parts of the world, because the core of the start-up is about technology. India has some of the best developers in the entire world. So when we get a start-up and see the ingenuity to take up something from an idea and bring it into a product, I think we (India) have a big advantage over developers in other parts of the world.”

For Microsoft, India has become a very attractive market for its cloud business. This is evident in the way it is aggressively engaging with the Indian IT community, including software and mobile app developers, System Integrators (SIs), channel partners and enterprises of all sizes. Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, said, “Microsoft is powering the cloud transition in India with Windows Azure and a set of comprehensive offerings across private, hybrid and public clouds. We are adding over 2,000 commercial cloud customers every month in India and they are across all industry segments and across large, mid-sized and small companies.”

Microsoft announced three winners for its 12th ImagineCup 2014 in India. One of these teams will represent the country in the worldwide finals in July in Seattle competing for a $50,000 prize, Joseph Landes, general manager, developer and platform evangelism, said on Tuesday.

A prototype mechanical keyboard that recognizes hand gestures performed on or immediately above the keys has been developed. The Type-Hover-Swipe keyboard, developed by a team at Microsoft Research, features infrared proximity sensors embedded in a printed circuit board.

Microsoft India slashed the price of its gaming console XBox 360 250GB by 12 per cent to Rs 21,990. It has also reduced the price of the XBox 360 250GB Kinect by 8.3 per cent to Rs 31,990. “We are committed to offer great experiences to our consumers at compelling price points. This price drop on 250GB Sku’s, coupled with our recently launched Xbox Live Gold Rush promo, will provide great value to our community of fans and gamers,” Microsoft India Director (Interactive Entertainment Business) Anshu Mor said in a statement.

Microsoft beat Wall Street’s profit expectations in its fiscal third-quarter earnings, and recently anointed CEO Satya Nadella shared details of how he plans to put his unique stamp on the company. For the quarter ending March 31, Microsoft reported a profit of $5.66 billion, or $0.68 per share, on revenue of $20.40 billion. Wall Street analysts were expecting 63 cents per share on revenue of $20.49 billion.

Microsoft Corp said it will increase its cloud storage offering for business users by 40-fold as the world’s largest software company makes a case for businesses buying an all-in-one product from itself rather than buying technology “piecemeal” from multiple sellers. “The era of making isolated, single-solution decisions is rapidly coming to a close,” wrote John Case, corporate vice president of Microsoft Office Division. Microsoft on Monday raised its OneDrive for Business storage to 1TB per user from 25GB.

Microsoft Corp. announced it has completed its acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business. The acquisition has been approved by Nokia shareholders and by governmental regulatory agencies around the world. The completion of the acquisition marks the first step in bringing these two organizations together as one team. Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft, said, “Today we welcome the Nokia Devices and Services business to our family. The mobile capabilities and assets they bring will advance our transformation,” said “Together with our partners, we remain focused on delivering innovation more rapidly in our mobile-first, cloud-first world.”