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Microsoft Teams, has received a major overhaul. At the Education special event, Microsoft EDU, the company revealed that it is expanding Teams to the educational space. Microsoft Teams is integrated in Office 365 for education and will be available for free to all Windows 10 S users. The new feature in Teams is targeted mainly towards teachers, to help connect with students while maintaining different groups and different discussions for varied subjects, classrooms.

Radware, a provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, announced that its Alteon NG Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Virtual Appliance (VA) is available on Microsoft Azure to enterprises that need to incorporate an application delivery solutions in their cloud deployment. It now comes with integrated migration tools that make cloud migration simple and easy to execute.

Last weekend, Microsoft unveiled ‘Dubai‘, a totally free font whose matching Latin and Arabic scripts were designed in tandem, with a view to increase legibility on screens. Born out of a collaboration between the company, design foundry Monotype, and the Dubai government, it’s available at no cost in four weights, and touts a strong message encouraging self-expression.

At its EDU event, Microsoft announced a new Code Builder tool to Minecraft: Education Edition – the education version of the popular block-builder game to help teach kids coding. The tool is in beta and will be available for students and teachers at qualifying schools. It essentially allows one to use learn-to-code tools like MakeCode, ScratchX, and Tynker with the game forming as the base of the programming.

The Redmond-based company launched the new version of its Arc Touch Mouse – called the Microsoft Surface Arc Mouse. While the mouse still comes with the same arc design that provided a distinct look to the earlier versions, the latest iteration doesn’t have distinguishable left and right click buttons as before. The company has priced the accessory at $80 (roughly Rs. 5,100) and interested users can already pre-order the device from company’s website.

Adobe recently entered into a partnership with Microsoft that enables Adobe products to pull Microsoft data and insights (from CRM, Dynamic 365, Power BI etc) into Sensei for more intelligent machine learning. Soon Microsoft tools will have Sensei in them too. “We have had a long history of partnership with Microsoft, especially with Pdf. This newest partnership will help enterprises digitally transform,” said Shantanu Narayen, CEO Adobe Systems.

Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the need for educational opportunity. In a blog post, he narrated the tale of his grandfather to highlight that “democratizing educational opportunity must include everyone, not just a select few”. “It was my grandfather’s education and eventual career that enabled my father to pursue his own education, which eventually allowed me to follow my own passions,” he wrote. This personal story reflects that often-repeated adage: ‘Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not.’

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday unveiled Windows 10 S, a streamlined version of its popular operating system, geared toward low-cost laptops for students. the Surface laptop integrated with Windows 10 S is priced from $999 and will be available for pre-order starting Tuesday.

Apart from announcing a new lighter version of Windows 10 and that stunningly good looking Surface Laptop, Microsoft gave us a glimpse of its new 3D augmented reality app called View Mixed Reality. Stressed more for education purposes, the 3D mixed reality feature lets a user with just a simple on-device camera or even an external webcam to overlay digital images over the real world. In short, Microsoft is removing the need of a headset to view augmented reality.

As Director of Microsoft’s Building 99 research lab in Redmond, Washington, Eric Horvitz gave each of his employees a copy of David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers. Horvitz wanted them to read the story of the Wright brothers’ determination to show them what it takes to invent an entirely new industry. In some ways, his own career in artificial intelligence has followed a similar trajectory. For nearly 25 years, Horvitz has endeavored to make machines as capable as humans.