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Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass is now available for all as of today. The service launched early last month for Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox One with a free 14-day trial. Now all users can try the program for $9.99/£7.99/€9.99 per month or try it for 14 days with the same free trial.

Microsoft has announced the first open source developer tool for Azure. Called Draft, the new tool is designed to help developers create cloud-native applications on Kubernetes. Draft lets developers get started with container-based applications without any knowledge of Kubernetes or Docker.

Purdue and Microsoft entered into an agreement in April 2016 that extends their collaboration on quantum computing research, effectively establishing “Station Q Purdue,” one of the “Station Q” experimental research sites that work closely with two “Station Q” theory sites. The new, multi-year agreement extends that collaboration and includes Microsoft employees being embedded in Manfra’s research team at Purdue.

Neudesic, a nationally recognized business and technology consulting firm, announced it has won the 2017 Microsoft Cloud Apps Global Partner of the Year Award. ” We are pleased to recognize Neudesic for being selected as the Winner of the 2017 Microsoft Cloud Apps award. Our ecosystem of innovative partners is the cornerstone to delivering transformative solutions to our mutual customers” said Ron Huddleston Corporate Vice President, One Commercial Partner, Microsoft Corp.

At Computex 2017, Microsoft outlined key areas of focus to inspire customers, increase momentum in the PC market with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, and spark emerging categories including Windows Mixed Reality and Windows and Azure solutions for the Internet of Things. Nick Parker, corporate vice President, consumer and device sales, shared his vision, “Our partner model is unique in the industry as we collaborate, end-to-end, from design, through all phases of the product lifecycle and across consumer and device channels. At Microsoft, our success scales with our partners and, as an ecosystem, we reinvent existing markets even as we explore new ones.”

On June 1, 2017 Microsoft launched the second version of what is now called the Microsoft Cognitive toolkit, to accelerate the process of deep learning. The Open source kit which was earlier known as CNTK, is new range of competition against TensorFlow, Caffe and Torch by Microsoft. This time Microsoft has put efforts into usability, future extensibility, while still maintaining and improving its speed.

Microsoft launched the Microsoft Planner for mobile as well. This app has been launched for both Android and iOS platform allowing to manage the tasks and plan teamwork activities easier.

Telangana government has partnered with financial technology startup Transaction Analysts to launch T-Wallet, the state’s official wallet for both government and private transactions. “T-Wallet is going to be the centerpieces for all transactions in the State,” said Srinivasa Katuri, MD, Chief Executive, Transaction Analysts, which was a part of the Microsoft Accelerator program.

Apart from CBSE’s official websites, SMS and other online portals, candidates can also use Microsoft’s Bing search engine to view their result.

Microsoft’s Bing had joined Google, Pinterest and a few other tech companies when it comes to upgrading their image search capabilities. But Microsoft’s Bing can now enable its users to search for images within images. The new tool called as Bing Visual Search is a part of the search engine’s existing image search tools and appears to be quite easy to use and performs impressively too.