VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

San Francisco-based GitHub tool for coders, into hosting and development service, which hosts 27 million software developers working on 80 million repositories of code, on and off for a few years. Recently they began talks about a partnership but progressed to discussing an acquisition, according to another person familiar with the situation. GitHub is a code housing platform that allows developers to store their projects and network with peers and GitHub covers why the platform matters, how developers use it, and more and work together to create software. With GitHub one can collaborate on projects and invite other programmers to work on your project from anywhere. GitHub works seamlessly with the command-line tool Git, wherein developers can easily check in and check out their projects. This cheat sheet is an easy way to get up to speed on GitHub. There are more than 2 million work on regular updates, made to projects, which Microsoft is eyeing to reach out.... Read More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Microsoft have come up with a new innovation in Hybrid Cloud Computing through Microsoft Azure, HPE infrastructure and services, and new program offerings. The extended partnership appoints Microsoft Azure as a preferred public cloud partner for HPE customers, while HPE will serve as a preferred partner in providing infrastructure and services for Microsoft’s hybrid cloud offerings. “Hewlett Packard Enterprise is committed to helping businesses transform to hybrid cloud environments in order to drive growth and value. Public cloud services, like Azure provides, are an important aspect of a hybrid cloud strategy and Microsoft Azure blends perfectly with HPE solutions to deliver what our customers need most,” said Meg Whitman, President & CEO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise... Read more

Microsoft has announced availability of Microsoft Azure services via local datacenter regions in India. As the first public cloud provider from India, Microsoft has opened three new regions – Central India in Pune, South India in Chennai and West India in Mumbai. Built on the foundational principles of security, privacy & control, compliance and transparency, Microsoft cloud services are designed to enable individuals and organizations to achieve more. In the words of Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India, “The Microsoft cloud in India will transform the way computing is done in the country.” Read more

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, has announced that his company is planning to partner with the Indian Government to take low-cost broadband technology to around five lakh villages across the country. He also said that Microsoft believes that lost-cost broadband connectivity coupled with the scale of cloud computing intelligence can help drive creativity, efficiency and productivity across governments and businesses of all sizes. This, in turn, will drive more affordable products and services and access to opportunity to all of India. He has also announced that, at the end of next week, Microsoft would announce availability of its cloud services operating out ... Read more

Intex Technologies has announced its association with Microsoft to become the first smartphone brand in India to pre-install and provide OneDrive cloud storage. Its customers will receive an additional 50 GB of storage for 2 years. This will allow users to easily access and share their important documents, photos, and other files from their Intex smartphone or any of their other devices. OneDrive will be available in Intex Smartphones with a memory configuration of 16GB ROM and 2GB RAM namely- Aqua Speed HD, Aqua Power Plus, Cloud Power Plus and Aqua Star II (16GB) and all future models matching the said configuration. Users will only need to sign in with their Microsoft account to access and share their files through the in-built OneDrive app. In addition to having OneDrive on their Intex smartphone, users can access their files from any device – such as their PC or Mac or other tablets or smartphones – simply by downloading the OneDrive app. They can also log in to OneDrive....

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT)  has announced to the effect that it has completed its acquisition of the  Nokia Devices and Services business . The acquisition has been approved by the Nokia shareholders and by the governmental regulatory agencies around the world. The completion of the acquisition marks the first step in bringing these two organizations together as one team. "Today, we welcome the Nokia Devices and Services business to our family. The mobile capabilities and assets they bring will advance our transformation. Together with our partners, we remain focussed on delivering innovation more rapidly in our mobile-first, cloud-first world," said  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella . As part of the transaction, Microsoft will honour all existing Nokia customer warranties for existing devices, beginning April 25, 2014. Microsoft will continue to deliver new value and opportunity, and it will work closely with a range o...