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Microsoft made the huge move of bringing a preview of Visual Studio to the Mac back in November. Today, during its Build event in Seattle, Microsoft announced the software is now ready for general availability.

Microsoft at its annual Build 2017 conference announced some new updates for its Teams enterprise collaboration developer platform. The same would enable developers to bring new features to Teams in the future. Thanks to the new features, developers will now be able to deliver their apps for Teams using the Office Store. These Teams apps will appear in a new “discover apps experience” section that should give them more visibility.

“Building trust in technology is crucial… Ensure that there is more trust in technology each day. We have to capture the essence of the timeless value,” Nadella told the annual Microsoft developer’s conference ‘Build 2017’. His remarks gain significance amid concerns raised about the use of technology both in the US and India. The two largest democracies lately have been facing questions on the use of technology in elections with allegations of misuse ‘hacking and tampering’ of devices and internet quite often.

Microsoft has updated the Windows Store for Windows 10 PCs to allow remote installs of Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps on the Xbox One. What this means is, you can now select apps to install to your Xbox One when using the Windows Store on Windows 10 computers. There are minor UI changes too to allow for a thinner download bar and viewing the download speed is possible too.

When it comes to software piracy, the Redmond giant has a weapon in its arsenal to wipe out piracy from its visionary platform – cloud computing. In a recent patent filed by Microsoft, there is a mention of a tool limiting cloud features for a user marked as a “repeated offender” after trying to share pirated content with another person several times. With this tech, Microsoft won’t have to manually remove any pirated content from its servers.

Answering a Twitter user, Xbox boss Phil Spencer replied, “Looks very good right now, no issues.” That being said, we don’t know much about Scorpio’s release date beyond Holiday 2017.

Microsoft runs a reverse mentoring program called Elevate that leverages the power of generational diversity among teams. “We believe that such programs lead to the evolution of employees, managers and the organization as a whole,” said Ira Gupta, head of HR at Microsoft India. “Through this platform, mentors who are millennials share their perspectives, thoughts and ideas in one-to-one sessions with mentees who are leaders. The leaders gain from an objective view of ground realities and fresh perspectives while our mentors get the opportunity to also learn from the experiences of these senior leaders.”

Microsoft is finally testing a feature that will make the Microsoft Edge browser more secure and safe. The Windows Defender Application Guard was first announced last year, but Microsoft is finally testing it in its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview for Enterprises build (16188).

In an interview with Bloomberg Tech (via MSPoweruser), Microsoft’s Yusif Mehdi revealed, “Windows 10 has been doing great. It’s been many months since we reported we had 400 million monthly active users, but 300 million+ use it every day for 3 and a half hours. It’s the fastest adoption in corporation we’ve ever seen, and we’re seeing great deployment on that. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the progress on Windows.”

The company, in a blog post, wrote about the updated privacy policy, providing information on new LinkedIn features and how information can be used by members. Sara Harrington, Vice President of Legal said, “At LinkedIn, our ‘members first’ philosophy helps guide every decision we make, including how we gather and respect your personal information.”