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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.”

Udaipur, often known as the ‘Venice of the East’ saw this year’s version of The DQ Week Tech Caravan conference held in Hotel Vishnu Priya on 2nd April, 2014. Around 25 partners marked their presence to make the event a flourishing success. Microsoft being the gold partner of this event presented on Office-365, its cloud product. Sushan Aich of Microsoft explained about the product details and apprised the partners of the opportunities available in this model of cloud solution.

In an interview, Susan Hauser, Corporate Vice-President, Microsoft, said, “We look at our business as really shifting to the cloud and mobile world in a very big way. As an example, Office365 is the fastest-growing product in the history of the company. We’ve reached about $1 billion last year; it’ll be $3 billion at the end of this year. (Cloud platform) Azure is growing 200%. What is exciting is that India is really leading the way in many ways when it comes to cloud and mobility. We see India growing faster than the rest of the world.”

Microsoft’s main motive to infuse a tile based UI on Windows was to expand its operating system to a larger section of touch based devices including tablets/tablet PCs. While the tablet market was and still is dominated by Android and iOS based devices, Windows 8.1 based devices are gathering steam rapidly, thanks to the promise of offering a full-fledged Windows 8.1 experience in a compact, tablet form-factor. The article reports about 3 best Windows 8.1 tablet options along with their hardware configurations, prices and details on where to buy them.

Microsoft Corp has officially announced that 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, said a Microsoft release.

Four start-ups currently graduating from Microsoft Ventures Accelerator Plus program are in discussions for acquisition, said Ravi Narayan, director of the Bangalore-based Microsoft Ventures. The deals may be announced next month when the current batch graduates.