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Microsoft Corp has launched its online store with Tata CLiQ, the e-commerce portal of Tata group. Priyadarshi Mohapatra, Country General Manager, Consumer Channel Group, Microsoft India, said, “We are expanding our online presence through our official Microsoft store so that our consumers find it easier to experience and buy our products. We are excited to partner with Tata CLiQ and see tremendous opportunity in delivering Microsoft products and services through them to our customers.”

Microsoft has elaborated on the new patching policy for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 that takes effect Tuesday. In a post to a company blog accompanied by graphics, Michael Niehaus, a Product Marketing Director for Windows 10, fleshed out the massive change in how Windows 7, the standard in business and the most popular OS on the planet, will be serviced starting with this month’s Patch Tuesday.

The most recent Microsoft operating system update, Redstone 1, also dubbed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607, brings plenty of enterprise IT updates, including these seven EMM features. The six most notable features in the latest update are: Windows Information Protection, MDM updates, Windows Hello for Business, Upgraded analytics, Malware updates and App management & customization.

The new Microsoft AI and Research Group will be led by computer vision pioneer and Executive Vice President Harry Shum, whose 20-year Microsoft career involves leading Bing’s search efforts from 2007 through 2013 and helping launch Microsoft Research China. In an interaction, Shum, said, “I just feel that the timing’s right to go big on AI.”

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has identified machine learning as the firm’s key focus as cloud computing usage becomes more widespread. Speaking at an event in London’s Canary Wharf financial district, Nadella’s sales pitch placed emphasis on the role of machine learning across Microsoft’s range of cloud products – from infrastructure and platform as a service offering in Azure, to its Dynamics and Office365 cloud software.

After the announcement of Dynamics 365 and AppSource at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2016, Microsoft demonstrated the integrated CRM and ERP for its partners and customers. “Dynamics 365 will allow partners to be more deeply involved on their customers’ business processes, creating new business opportunities that couldn’t be pursued before”, Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Cloud + Enterprises said in a blog post. The Dynamics 365 is set to release on November 1.

Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: Mega Battle, a brand new game based on the original series, will be launching on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 early next year.

Microsoft is holding a special hardware launch event on 26 October in New York to unveil some of the newest Surface hardware products alongside Windows 10 software update. One can even expect some major Xbox-related announcements as well. According to a report published by The Verge, viewers will be seeing the debut of the company’s long-rumoured Surface-branded keyboards and mouse as well as showcase laptops and devices from OEMs.

Microsoft’s HP Elite X3, also referred to as the Windows 10 Mobile Superphone is now available for purchase on Microsoft’s online and retail stores across United States. HP Elite comes equipped with a 5.94-inch AMOLED display, 4GB RAM and up to 64GB of store with support for MicroSD, 16MP rear camera and an 8MP front camera, a 4150 mAh battery, USB Type-C connector and is powered by a Snapdragon 820 processor clocked at 2.15 GHz.

The Xbox One is really hitting its stride now, and 2017 is only going to get better for the ever-evolving console. Plenty of exclusives are on their way, many of which are new IPs, giving us new games that we can’t wait to get our hands on.