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Yes Bank has partnered with Microsoft, to deploy Office 365 and Microsoft Kaizala in its platform. The deployment of Microsoft products is a part of Yes Bank’s endeavours to adopt technology solutions to streamline processes and improve employee efficiency and productivity.

Startup accelerators mushrooming all over the country are steering hundreds of young businesses through growth spurts. Now, they need to focus on scouting for and nurturing India’s next big startups. Bala Girisaballa, Managing Director at Microsoft Accelerator, which has supported 122 startups over 5 years in India, too, is batting for more accelerators in India.

Continuing its developments around open source, Microsoft has now joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The latest announcement comes days after the Redmond company entered the board of the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

Microsoft has announced Sonata Software as a “Microsoft ISV Development Center“. The Microsoft ISV Development Centers (Dev Centers) were established to provide strong third-party technical services that can be contracted and leveraged by Microsoft’s Partners (VARs, ISVs, NSIs, GSIs, etc.).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has formed a go-to-market alliance with Microsoft through Cloud28+, the world’s largest, open community dedicated to increasing enterprise cloud adoption. Microsoft joins Cloud28+, an initiative led and sponsored by HPE, as a premier Microsoft Azure Stack technology partner

Microsoft launched its first “Made for India” chat messaging application called Kaizala. The application is designed for large group communication and can enable messages to be sent to millions of people on a group simultaneously. Anant Maheshwari, President, Microsoft India, said Kaizala is a “Made for India product”.

Microsoft is working relentlessly to provide users with the latest Creator’s update. The upgrade is coming in waves and the most compatible machines are the first one to receive them. Creator’s update has been developed with a keen focus on the requirements of creators and artists.

Microsoft has taken another step in the AI direction, by announcing that its next-generation HoloLens augmented reality headset will come with an on-device AI chip. This integrated AI chip will help in faster processing time and eradicate the need to upload on cloud first, making mobile processing more secure and fast.

Speaking at Microsoft’s financial conference call for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017, ended on June 30th, Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella praised the state of the Xbox business, and discussed the strategic opportunities that it opens for Microsoft.