Nucleus Software Exports shares gained over 14 per cent in the afternoon trade on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) after the company announced tie-up with Microsoft to deliver cloud-based lending solution globally.

At 12.38 pm, the share price of the company was trading 14.98 per cent higher at Rs 294. It opened at Rs 259.80 and had touched a high and low of Rs 298.80 and 256.70, in trade so far.

IT infrastructure and data centre services provider Netmagic, an NTT Communications firm, is gearing up its offering in the Indian market as global biggies like Microsoft, IBM and Amazon set up their data centres in the country.

With the company's largest data centre (DC) going live by the end of this month in Mumbai, Netmagic will have a total DC space of 600,000 sq.ft spread across nine DCs.

Microsoft will start rolling out its new operating system Windows 10 around the world, including India, with a host of new features as the long-time leader in PC software tries to lure back consumers who gave up on Windows for mobile devices.

Armed with new innovative features like Cortana, an Xbox app and Microsoft Edge, the long-awaited Windows 10 would be available to computers and tablets in 190 nations.

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuts tomorrow, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out a new role in a world where people increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets and information stored online.

No one’s expected to line up overnight for Windows 10, the way people did 20 years ago for Windows 95. But Microsoft is counting on tens or even hundreds of millions of people to download its latest release for free in the coming months.

Microsoft Corp reported a $3.2 billion quarterly net loss, its biggest ever, as the company wrote down its Nokia phone business and demand fell for its Windows operating system.

The company took a charge of $7.5 billion in the fourth quarter related to the restructuring of its Nokia handset business, which it bought last year.

Microsoft recognises India as a “growth opportunity”, a senior company executive has said as he voiced enthusiasm over the potential of combining the firm’s technological tools with the country’s ambitious campaigns like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’.

“What is really exciting is the initiatives going on with the government” and technology plays a very critical role in all, whether it is Make in India, Digital India or the Skill India campaign, General Manager SMS&P (Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners) at Microsoft India, Meetul Patel told PTI on the sidelines of the Microsoft Worldwide Conference that concluded last week in Orlando.

Making it clear that Microsoft is not giving up on phones, company COO Kevin Turner has asserted that the technology giant is restructuring its phones business for profitable growth and will focus on only a few devices that will grab market share.

Turner, addressing over 14,000 partners, resellers and vendors at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015 here, said people have been asking what the company is doing about its phone business, particularly in the wake of last week’s announcement that Microsoft would be cutting 7,800 jobs and write down USD 7.6 billion, all related to its Nokia business.

Describing India as a “great market”, a top Microsoft executive said the company’s partners in the country are “very progressive” in the way they service the world and the Indian customers adapt to technology a lot faster than those in some other nations.

“We have a great market in India and (it is) super strong. We have really tremendous partners who have been with us for a long time and are transforming very quickly in the cloud infrastructure,” General Manager, Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft, Gavriella Schuster told PTI here on the sidelines of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2015.

Microsoft has announced plans for a celebratory debut this month of Windows 10 operating software designed to spread the US software titan's offerings across a broad range of devices.

Word that Windows 10 would be welcomed in grand style came less than a week yesterday after Microsoft said it will cut 7,800 jobs and write down the value of its struggling mobile phone division acquired last year from Nokia by some $7.6 billion.

Microsoft Inc’s future in mobile devices likely hinges on the software maker’s ability to convince developers to create apps for the phone version of Windows 10 after its ill-fated Nokia acquisition helped trigger 7,800 layoffs.

The job cuts announcement is an acknowledgement that its 2013 $7.2 billion purchase of Nokia was never going to help paltry sales of its Windows Phone, and that it needed a new approach.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.