Author: Microsoft Stories

Microsoft is helping clients with large legacy systems see the ease of using the cloud by offering hybrid services. Meetul Patel, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft India, said, “Hybrid offerings are really important as they allow people to carry their work online or offline depending on their requirements. Our hybrid cloud infrastructure helps businesses with legacy infrastructure in software and hardware to migrate to cloud on their own terms.”

Microsoft has announced new updates to its chat and productivity program, Teams. Microsoft called the update the biggest one since Teams’ launch in March. With the newer updates, users can leverage apps in various new ways and command apps to take quick actions directly from the command box. One of the new features introduced is an app store—an one-stop shop for searching and discovering apps that integrate with Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft is showcasing an automatic tool to help engineers tackle security threats when collaborating on software development in GitHub, a platform to discover, fork, and contribute to projects. “To help protect our customers, Microsoft Azure (cloud computing platform) runs Credential Scanner, also known as CredScan, which monitors GitHub and checks for specific Azure tenant secrets such as Azure subscription management certificates and Azure SQL (Structured Query Language) connection strings,” Brijesh Desai, principal program manager lead at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.

Microsoft announced that it has acquired PlayFab, a start-up with cloud-based tools for game developers. PlayFab’s portfolio of services includes content management, documentation, forums and A/B testing. “Incorporating PlayFab’s experience, growing network of game developers and powerful gaming-as-a-service platform into our product offering is an important step forward for gaming at Microsoft,” Kareem Choudhry, corporate vice president of gaming at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.

Microsoft, has announced an app called Windows Diagnostic Viewer. This feature will provide an overview of data being sent to Microsoft’s servers by Windows 10. The company has given an early preview of the Viewer to Windows Insiders and the feature will be widely available in the next release of the operating system, codenamed Redstone.

Marking World Data Privacy Day on 28 January, Microsoft noted that cloud computing is transforming the way organisations use, store, and share data, applications, and workloads, and reiterated its commitment to ensure that user data remains private. In 2018, Microsoft revealed that cyber security-enabled privacy will be of core importance as they enable the digital transformation of Indian business.

Microsoft has announced that it is leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Neural Networks to improve real-time language translation for Tamil, Hindi and Bengali. With Deep Neural Network-powered language translation, the results are more accurate and the sound more natural.

iBall has launched the Compbook Exemplaire+, a compact Windows 10 notebook in India, priced at Rs 16,499. The Compbook Exemplaire+ is the latest addition to company’s Compbook lineup, which includes five other models with a starting price of Rs 9,999.

Microsoft has announced the launch of Xbox One X for the Indian market. Priced at Rs 44,990, the gaming console will be available at Microsoft India stores and over 100 gaming specialty stores in offline retail; and Amazon, Flipkart, Croma, Landmark in online retail.