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Microsoft is releasing the next generation of its Dynamics AX flagship ERP software, which has been upgraded to reflect both Redmond’s cloud-first mentality and new capabilities in Azure Machine Learning and Power BI. The next generation of Microsoft’s Dynamics AX, redesigned for cloud and upgraded with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and Cortana, is available for public preview.

The company has confirmed that India’s Xbox One digital Black Friday Deals will go live from Friday. “India will get the Black Friday sale starting November 20, 2015 on Xbox Live. Initially open to Xbox Live Gold members only and starting coming Tuesday open to all,” a Microsoft representative said. As for what games to expect? A short teaser video on the site showed off heavy hitters like Assassin’s Creed, Batman: Arkham Knight, Gears of War, and The Witcher 3.

Microsoft has updated Skype’s Android client to add a handful of features that many users are likely to find handy. The instant messaging and video chat client from the company now lets users save video messages among other things. The Skype v6.11 for Android now allows users to save video messages. A user will be able to tap on a video message or a recording and save it to their device’s photo gallery. It’s a handy feature that many users have requested in the past.

Microsoft officially released the Microsoft Graph, a nerdy solution that opens the doors wide for developers to do a lot more with Microsoft Office. The Microsoft Graph, first announced in beta back in April, is a set of APIs that blow open the Microsoft Office 365 productivity cloud to developers, letting them build apps that take a user’s data and put it to use in cool, new ways.

Perfecto Mobile, the market leading provider of high-quality digital and mobile experiences for enterprises, announced new integrations for mobile testing with Microsoft Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. Perfecto’s tight integrations connect its cloud-based test lab, Continuous Quality Lab™, to Microsoft’s developer tools to enable automated mobile web and app testing via the cloud. Enterprises can leverage the integrations to work in a single IDE for full application development and quality management and ensure continuous quality throughout every build.

During its annual Connect(); developer event, Microsoft Corp. reinforced its commitment to providing the best experience for any developer, on any device or platform, with several new and updated developer tools and programs from Visual Studio, Azure, Office and Windows, including many new free offers. “As a developer company we want to empower developers with open and flexible technologies that enable innovation on their terms,” said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Group, Microsoft.

Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled tools that protect not only cloud-based workloads in the company’s Azure IaaS public cloud, but those on customers’ premises and even in competing clouds, such as those from Amazon Web Services. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gave a keynote address at a Government Cloud Forum in Washington, D.C. in which he talked about his company’s broad security efforts.

Driven by growth in emerging markets, global mobile phone shipments in July-September 2015 reached 478 million units, research firm Gartner has said. Micromax’s sales jumped over two-fold to 12.16 million units in the reported period compared to 5.6 million units in the same period a year ago. Samsung maintained its global leadership with sales growing by about 9% year-on-year to over 102 million units and was followed by Apple which registered 20.6% growth in sales at over 46 million devices .Microsoft Devices occupied third spot globally with sale of 30.29 million devices in the reported quarter.

Microsoft has announced that it has implemented a new rendering engine in Microsoft Edge, the new default Windows browser it introduced with Windows 10, to combat a number of browser-based abuses and attacks. The company says with the changes attackers will not be able to use third-party applications to install toolbars on Edge.

The Until Dawn-esque Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive indie game title, Oxenfree, will be launching in January 2016. The game has a premise similar to Supermassive Games’ as it follows teenagers who inadvertently and unwittingly open up a supernatural rift, and then find themselves facing the horrors within. “Microsoft’s commitment to curating and nurturing the most exciting new game worlds and then delivering them to millions of players make them the perfect partner to help bring Oxenfree to life,” said Sean Krankel, Co-founder of Night School Studio.