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LinkedIn is leading a project with muscular industry backers to produce componentized and standardized data center hardware that will be useful in small and medium-sized enterprise data centers as well as large cloud centers.

While a large part of the developer community often considers Microsoft as a proprietary behemoth, the Redmond company has now taken the open source way and opted community-backed Git to build none other than its Windows platform. The company has overcome all the “daunting scaling challenges” in its journey and ultimately reached the milestone of developing the world’s largest Git repository. Microsoft had first announced its interest towards Git back in 2013 and developed a roadmap to bring the distributed version control system to its Visual Studio. In late January that same year, the Windows maker also added support Git open source version control to its developer tools that include Visual Studio as well as Team Foundation Service.

Microsoft has announced new advancements for SAP HANA workloads to ensure that Azure remains the best public cloud for its customers. Azure offers customers the ability to extract more intelligence from their SAP solution environments with AI and analytics, and Microsoft’s longstanding partnership with SAP includes integrations with Office 365 to help customer enhance productivity, too.

Microsoft has brought a desktop snap of its Visual Studio Code. The new development is a yet another move by the Redmond giant to please Linux users. Installing Visual Studio Code on Linux distributions will become much easier with snap package. The new development makes the download faster through the snap technology.

Practo and Microsoft have partnered to improve Bing search results when it comes to searching for doctors online. The healthcare platform claims that the “collaboration will enable an easier and effective search for people looking for right medical advice.” Practo’s integration into Bing search brings the ability to book appointments, see reviews, and order lab tests on the search platform.

Microsoft has announced its 2016-2017 class of education innovators featuring 238 Microsoft Innovative Educators (MIE) Experts across India, the company said. “This is the biggest group of MIEs from India since we initiated the program in the country. By leveraging the power of technology, these passionate teachers are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning, and reinforcing critical 21st century skills in today’s youth,” said Pratik Mehta, Director (Education), Microsoft India.

Microsoft’s been on a high streak with its newest Surface products. In an interview with The Verge, Surface head honcho Panos Panay gave us a bit of respite: USB-C is coming to the Surface soon, but you’ll need a dongle for it.

Microsoft has announced Microsoft Teams connector for Flow that enables users to alert team of any new activity by posting messages to an existing Teams channel. Microsoft Flow is a service for automating workflow across the growing number of apps and SaaS services.