Recent News

Economic Times: Microsoft Hyderabad announces roll out of 3rd edition of TOFFEE

Microsoft Hyderabad today announced the successful roll out of the third edition of TOFFEE (Total Offence Free Entity), a traffic awareness initiative organised by the company’s employees in association with the Cyberabad Police. DCP (traffic-Cyberabad) Avinash Mohanty and DCP (traffic-Hyderabad) Shyam Sundar, announced that TOFFEE will be valid all over Hyderabad city as against only Cyberabad Commissionerate limits (till now) from this year. “The partnership between the Cyberabad Traffic Police department and Microsoft has significantly improved traffic and road safety conditions in the Cyberabad region. In 2012, together with Microsoft, we helped WiproBSE -1.85 % roll out this program for their employees. This year, we would like to see more companies come forward and replicate TOFFEE,” Mohanty said.

The Indian Express: Window(s) of opportunity

At a Nokia event last week, many known faces from the company introduced themselves as Microsoft employees. It was, in a way, a clear statement of the fact that the future of the Finnish phone giant was now captive to the plans of its new master from Redmond. This alliance is also a great opportunity for Nokia to regain its place at the top of Mount Mobile Phone and for Microsoft to finally become relevant in the conversation about smartphones and mobility. With the launch of Windows 8.1, Microsoft has also tied up with Indian manufacturers like Micromax and Lava to offer affordable devices. This opening up of the platform will take Windows Phone to different users who have not yet experienced Windows Phone.

CIOL: Microsoft releases security patch for Internet Explorer

Microsoft has released a security update for the Internet Explorer to close the vulnerability gaps. In a blog post yesterday, Adrienne Hall, general manager, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft has said that the update has gone live already. “If you are like most people, you have automatic updates turned on, and you’ll get this new update without having to do anything. If you haven’t turned on automatic updates yet, you should do so now. Click the “Check for Updates” button on the Windows Update portion of your Control Panel to get this going,” she said.

Silicon India: Indian Startups Have Huge Advantage Over Other Countries – Microsoft

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.”

Microsoft BGR.in: Indian start-ups have huge advantage over other countries

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.”

Financial Express: Microsoft Thinks Big on Cloud

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.”