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Microsoft has finally rolled out its ‘next-generation’ Skype app to Android devices, as promised at the time of its introduction earlier this month. Users can get their hands on the revamped app by downloading it from Google Play Store. Bearing version number 8.0, the app will also come to iOS later.

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International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners India West Chapter organized the Second Part of the Hands On Lab for Azure on 9th June 2017 at Microsoft Mumbai Office. About 20 Partners attended the event. The Lab was conducted by Rao Rajendra Singh, Global Black Belt for Cloud Infrastructure and Specialist in Business Continuity, Microsoft.

India represents a billion-dollar Cloud computing market which is growing at 30 pc annually and Microsoft is well-positioned to support the country’s digital transformation. “India has about 30 million-odd small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and a vast majority of these still have to embrace Cloud. For us, this is a massive opportunity to transform their operations in a secure Cloud environment,” said, Rajiv Sodhi, Country Head, Cloud and Server Business, Microsoft India.

The Xbox Scorpio offers 12GB of GDDR5 RAM, which is 4GB more than the standard Xbox One. On the standard Xbox One, 5GB was available for games, and the remaining 3GB saved for the system itself. On the Scorpio, 8GB is reserved for games, while 4GB is reserved for the system and OS. However, Microsoft has now freed up an additional GB of memory for developers, meaning they can now use 9GB of GDDR5 memory.

As cyber-attacks sow ever greater chaos worldwide, IT titan Microsoft and independent experts are pushing for a new global NGO tasked with the tricky job of unmasking the hackers behind them. Dubbed the “Global Cyber Attribution Consortium”, the NGO would probe major cyber-attacks and publish, when possible, the identities of their perpetrators, whether they be criminals, global hacker networks or states.

From an enterprise chatbot solution startup to a data-driven energy efficiency startup, and big data-based analytical platform, the Summer 2017 edition of Think Next saw 14 enterprise ready tech startups graduating from Microsoft Accelerator’s 10th cohort, reported DHNS from Bangalore.

Trianz, a digital transformation and technology solutions firm, announced that it is now a Managed Services Partner for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program. The CSP program empowers client partners to provide and manage end-to-end cloud services directly for Microsoft customers, including billing and technical support.

Dell EMC announced Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new, turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organizations standardizing on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications.