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The Microsoft Partner Association IAMCP organized a Networking and Knowledge sharing event recently at Microsoft India’s Mumbai Office. The Key focus of this event was to give partners an update on the Microsoft Strategy for 2017-18 with emphasis on the recent changes along with an overview on Microsoft Inspire 2017 which just concluded in Washington DC.

Microsoft has released .Net Core 2.0 as an upgrade to its open source runtime platform that was debuted last year. The new version is based on .Net Standard 2.0 to improve code sharing experience.

Microsoft has acquired Cycle Computing, a twelve-year-old Connecticut-based company that focuses on helping enterprises orchestrate high-performance computing jobs, large data workloads and other “big computing” jobs in the cloud.

Microsoft is hoping to develop autonomous aircraft that can eventually ride for hours or even days while consuming very little power, helping to track weather patterns or even deliver the internet to places where it’s otherwise unavailable.

Travel technology start-up, TRAVELSPICE, today announced increased use of data analytics, machine learning, BOT services and the scalable infrastructure offered by Microsoft Azure to support India’s only and rapidly growing e-commerce hotel booking platform.

Microsoft has added rapid reaction to a year-old subscription service that will automatically shut down accounts – logging a user out of all managed apps and services, including those delivered by a third-party – at the first hint of suspicious activity.

Microsoft announced that it has acquired Cycle Computing, a 12-year-old company that specializes in running complex high-performance computing workloads across different public clouds.

Microsoft has signed an MoU with KVS for ‘Project Shiksha’ with the intention of equipping teachers and principals with the latest computer skills.

From hacking agriculture to developing inexpensive tools for tuberculosis patients, Microsoft researchers in India are trying to solve myriad social problems in the subcontinent.

Microsoft is working on technology that it believes can make blockchain-based systems faster and more private, as it looks to speed up use of the distributed database software by enterprises.