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MasterCard announced it will collaborate with Microsoft to bring simple and secure e-commerce payments to Microsoft Dynamics users. Simplify Commerce, a uniquely versatile, highly secure and incredibly simple cloud-based payments platform, helps businesses grow by maximizing online and mobile sales. Daniel Brown, Microsoft General Manager, Dynamics AX R&D, said, “Today’s retailers require modern, integrated, secure and scalable payments solutions that grow with their business. Simplify Commerce is a world-class, global offering that is highly secure and makes it easy for retailers to adopt quickly to drive seamless commerce and to develop deeper engagement with their customers.”

Salesforce, the Customer Success Platform and world’s #1 CRM company, announced Lightning for Outlook. Jared Spataro, General Manager, Microsoft Office, said, “As part of our ongoing strategic partnership with Salesforce, Lightning for Outlook gives users a great way to work with Salesforce right from within Outlook. The solution enhances productivity for our joint customers and helps salespeople work smarter and more efficiently.”

Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC and Jearwon Microelectronics announced a new partnership that will expand cloud-based business solutions for enterprise customers around the world. Nick Psyhogeos, President, Microsoft Technology Licensing, said, “Cloud-backed business solutions are essential for enterprise customers around the world, and this new partnership with Jearwon is about delivering better, more efficient services to empower businesses to thrive. Jearwon is a leader in the industry producing a RemoteFX ASIC acceleration system on a chip, and we are excited to collaborate with them.”

Microsoft has announced that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the largest ever update to Windows 10 will be available to the general public on August 2. The blog post didn’t provide any new details other than the headline with the date. First announced at this year’s Build conference, the Anniversary Update includes a large suite of new tools for Windows 10 like a revamped set of stylus features with Windows Ink and the Ink Workspace, including improved Sticky Notes with Cortana support, a whiteboard or screen capture tool that users can summon from any app.

Codenvy, Microsoft and Red Hat Inc. announced adoption of a language server protocol project representing a collaborative effort to provide a common way to integrate programming languages across code editors and integrated development environments. Announced during DevNation 2016, this protocol extends developer flexibility and productivity by enabling a rich editing experience within a variety of tools for different programming languages. Erich Gamma, Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, “We have defined the common language server protocol after integrating the OmniSharp for C# and TypeScript servers into VS Code.”

Freecharge has launched a unified application which is now going to be available on desktops and tablets with Windows 10. Consumers can download the Freecharge app from the Windows store and experience an adaptive layout coupled with a great user interface on screens of all sizes including tablets, laptops, and desktops. The app has adaptive tiles that showcase contextual data to users.

Xbox Fitness has provided an at-home workout with the help of the trusty game console and Microsoft’s Kinect since 2013. However, the exercise option won’t be around much longer. Microsoft Studios announced that the console-driven workouts would be shuttered July 1, 2017, citing the effort required to ship regular updates to keep the gym routines fresh. The company says it has “given much consideration to the reality updating the service regularly in order to sustain it.”

At last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo, the video game industry forecast a future where Xboxes and PlayStations are updated almost as frequently as smartphones. The move to release more consoles with varying features may mark the end of the traditional console cycle, the decades-old tradition of brand-new systems coming out every seven years or so. Microsoft offered a glimpse of this potential reality by unveiling the Xbox One S, a slimmer Xbox One set for release in August with an infrared blaster and support for 4K video.

Microsoft’s open source programming language push reached a new milestone with the company announcing the general availability of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 1.0. Those two projects are an attempt by Microsoft to make the core elements of its programming language available for use on Linux and OS X, operating systems that previously didn’t support it. To reach this milestone, more than 18,000 developers, representing 1,300 companies, contributed to .NET Core.