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The Xbox Scorpio offers 12GB of GDDR5 RAM, which is 4GB more than the standard Xbox One. On the standard Xbox One, 5GB was available for games, and the remaining 3GB saved for the system itself. On the Scorpio, 8GB is reserved for games, while 4GB is reserved for the system and OS. However, Microsoft has now freed up an additional GB of memory for developers, meaning they can now use 9GB of GDDR5 memory.

As cyber-attacks sow ever greater chaos worldwide, IT titan Microsoft and independent experts are pushing for a new global NGO tasked with the tricky job of unmasking the hackers behind them. Dubbed the “Global Cyber Attribution Consortium”, the NGO would probe major cyber-attacks and publish, when possible, the identities of their perpetrators, whether they be criminals, global hacker networks or states.

From an enterprise chatbot solution startup to a data-driven energy efficiency startup, and big data-based analytical platform, the Summer 2017 edition of Think Next saw 14 enterprise ready tech startups graduating from Microsoft Accelerator’s 10th cohort, reported DHNS from Bangalore.

Trianz, a digital transformation and technology solutions firm, announced that it is now a Managed Services Partner for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Program. The CSP program empowers client partners to provide and manage end-to-end cloud services directly for Microsoft customers, including billing and technical support.

Dell EMC announced Dell EMC Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack, a new, turnkey, hybrid cloud platform that offers a simple and fast path for implementing and sustaining a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure Stack. The new platform helps organizations standardizing on the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to accelerate their digital transformation with automated IT service delivery for traditional and cloud-native applications.

Microsoft has updated its Outlook app, bringing contact editing to iOS, while its Android counterpart will receive it soon. In addition, contacts can be added and viewed in an entirely redesigned contact card to provide more details including latest conversations and shared files, apart from enabling easier calling and messaging.

Microsoft’s Major walks us through the ins and outs of the Xbox Scorpio devkit in a brand new video. In this video, he walks us through the features and hardware of the developer kit, to explain exactly how and why the hardware is as powerful as it is, and what that might mean for games.

At Computex, Microsoft announced that several major OEMs, including ASUS, HP, and Lenovo, will be delivering the first Always Connected PCs. In a statement, Microsoft said, “There is a new generation of users that need to be connected to the cloud at all times. They are students, creators, freelancers, small businesses, and enterprises. This means sharing experiences across screens and leveraging the latest network technology like gigabit LTE and eSIM. We are collaborating with our ecosystem on a shared vision.”

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been around for years, but while we’ve found it to be perfectly good, not many people use it compared to the 3.5 billion searches made each day using Google. To change that, Microsoft has launched (another) Rewards program which gives users points each time they search using Bing. And points mean prizes.