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The Xbox One has been going great guns in the past few months. Microsoft announced that the console was the best-selling console in the United States for September as per data from the NPD Group. That makes this the third month in a row that the Xbox One has beaten the PS4 and become the best-selling console in the United States.

HPE will soon launch its HPE | Microsoft Azure Stack solution, an integrated system that will enable organizations to increase agility and flexibility by delivering Azure compatible infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services from their on-premises data center.

In probably the single biggest piece of news out of Ignite, Microsoft revealed that it has hundreds of thousands of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (better known as FPGAs) racked up with its servers in Azure data centers around the world. Further, in its continuing quest to expand the global reach of its public cloud platform, Microsoft announced the general availability of four new Azure regions: two in the U.K. and two in Germany

Microsoft Ventures backed ZingHR is using cloud for offering hire-to-retire solutions. When ZingHR made it to the Microsoft Ventures’ 2014 summer batch of its accelerator programme in India, Prasad thought the partnership will just be to push the technology piece. However, he was surprised that their entire approach was not just to look from the technology perspective but also from funding, marketing, from a go-to-market, from positioning perspective.

Instagram app for Windows 10 is expanding beyond mobiles with the launch of PC and tablet friendly versions. Back in April, Facebook had announced collection of apps including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram for Windows 10. The apps were built on Microsoft’s Windows 10 universal platform with support for features like live tiles and cross platform scaling.

ZingHR, the new age cloud HCM Platform, has received the ‘ISV Partner of the Year’ Award at the Microsoft Summit 2016, organized in Goa. Microsoft recognized ZingHR for its innovation in technology and providing cloud based HRMS solutions to its customers, powered by Microsoft Azure.

The Xbox One S is a gorgeous console. It’s a beautiful piece of engineering, and the best part is that it also lends itself extremely well to custom console designs. Two of these custom console designs that will be released, in bundles, will be the Gears of War 4 Xbox One S and the Battlefield 1 Xbox One S.

Last year, Microsoft introduced the Surface Book as the ‘ultimate laptop’. It finally reached the UK earlier this year an age after its debut in the US. Like the Surface tablets before it, this laptop takes a unique spin on the notebook format that’s been around for more than 40 years. Between the 3:2 aspect ratio, 13.5-inch screen and its practically trademarked ‘dynamic fulcrum’ hinge, there isn’t any machine on the planet like the Surface Book.

Microsoft is actively maintaining its domain-specific P language to let developers write safe asynchronous event-driven programs for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Originally launched in 2015, the open source P language is known for modeling component communication of asynchronous systems. P language creates programs in the form of finite state machines, and each state machine has an input queue, states, machine-local store and ability to send asynchronous messages to others.

Microsoft has released a new Skype version for Linux users that brings video calling support. The latest Skype for Linux Alpha, version 1.10, presently allows you to make one-on-one video calls only between Skype for Linux Alpha clients. “The team has been working hard on bringing video calls on Linux and today we have the experimental version ready for you.” the Skype team writes in a blog post.