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Meghashyam Karanam, lead product marketing manager, Microsoft India stated that State Governments, banking and financial sector, and organized, small and medium-scale retail businesses are among the largest users of computers in local languages. He is further quoted as saying that Microsoft India is conducting several programs to create awareness among the public on the possibilities of using the computer and internet in their local language.

The finalists of the ‘Microsoft Zonal Imagine Boot Camp’ at the national-level will be taken to Seattle in Washington on a seven-day tour which will be sponsored by Microsoft. Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi, Head of the Microsoft’s academic student initiatives, said, “Over 400 students from the southern States are going to participate in the two-day event and the teams that are selected here will be sent to the nationals to be held in Delhi from April 29.”

With Windows Phone failing to make a significant dent in the market share of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in the last four years, Microsoft is waiving the license fee and offering it to at least two Indian phone makers for free. Last month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft announced that more phone makers, including two from India — Lava and Karbonn will produce Windows Phone devices in the coming months.

Nokia has launched the X-family range of phones to capitalize on the growing affordable smartphone segment, a top company official said. Viral Oza, Director (Marketing), Nokia India said, “The affordable smartphone segment which was 16 million units in 2012 grew to 44 million units in 2014. This market has been growing faster. Nokia addressed it through Asha and Lumia range of phones.”

The article reports about the game Lego which is available on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS4, PS3, PC and Wii-U. The Lego Movie, a first-ever, full-length 3-D, computer-animated Lego adventure. It is that always-favourite story of a mini-figure who finds himself in circumstances that require heroism of the adventurous kind.

Skype, the popular VoIP, video-chatting, and messaging software from Microsoft, has been updated for the Windows 8.1 operating system, with its new v2.6 release. The new ‘Skype for modern Windows’ or Windows 8.1 focuses on a better integration and synchronization across varied devices, and fluent picking up of calls.

In a clear attempt to capitalize on the success of the Android platform and draw more users to Microsoft products, Microsoft has now released an open source SDK for Office 365. Coming from Microsoft Open Technologies, the company’s open source subsidiary, the SDK for Android platform falls under the Apache License, version 2.0.

Microsoft-Nokia combo pitching in for Android might be surprising to many, however, ask the folks back at Microsoft and they’ll tell that: it’s quite a smart move indeed! With the growing popularity of Android, it was only a matter of time before Microsoft went ahead to cash on the tremendous opportunity, i.e. Android. It is estimated that Microsoft may have made almost $3.4 billion in 2013 from Android sales through its various patent agreements.