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A handful of Microsoft researchers in India started Project Mélange, where they are studying the use of code-mixing among Indians online. They are trying to figure out how virtual assistants might be taught to respond to a user switching between, for example, English and Hindi in a conversation.

Slightly Mad Studios’ Andy Tudor already confirmed a few days ago that the studio does not plan on holding back the Xbox Scorpio version of Project CARS 2, instead look into leveraging the Scorpio the best that they can. The reason they can do so is because of the PC development spec, which allows the detection of different hardware configurations already, and scale the offering accordingly.

Kempinski Hotels has selected Microsoft Dynamics NAV, augmented with nHancedNav from The NAV People, to optimize efficiency within each hotel and increase visibility into expenses across the entire organization. By deploying Dynamics NAV across the entire group, the company will achieve efficiency gains by automating manual processes, reducing headcount costs through improved working practices and optimizing inventory management across its entire hotel portfolio.

The two new data centers that Microsoft Corp. plans to build in South Africa aims to provide cloud computing services to the entire African continent. The power they use, however, will be generated and consumed entirely within South Africa’s grid.

In the last fortnight, two tech giants Microsoft and Google have laid down their strategies for an intelligent cloud led Artificial intelligence world. Though both these companies are trying to push for the same thing the approach varies and as leaders they will shape much of what happens in this space.

LinkedIn is leading a project with muscular industry backers to produce componentized and standardized data center hardware that will be useful in small and medium-sized enterprise data centers as well as large cloud centers.

While a large part of the developer community often considers Microsoft as a proprietary behemoth, the Redmond company has now taken the open source way and opted community-backed Git to build none other than its Windows platform. The company has overcome all the “daunting scaling challenges” in its journey and ultimately reached the milestone of developing the world’s largest Git repository. Microsoft had first announced its interest towards Git back in 2013 and developed a roadmap to bring the distributed version control system to its Visual Studio. In late January that same year, the Windows maker also added support Git open source version control to its developer tools that include Visual Studio as well as Team Foundation Service.

Microsoft has announced new advancements for SAP HANA workloads to ensure that Azure remains the best public cloud for its customers. Azure offers customers the ability to extract more intelligence from their SAP solution environments with AI and analytics, and Microsoft’s longstanding partnership with SAP includes integrations with Office 365 to help customer enhance productivity, too.

Microsoft has brought a desktop snap of its Visual Studio Code. The new development is a yet another move by the Redmond giant to please Linux users. Installing Visual Studio Code on Linux distributions will become much easier with snap package. The new development makes the download faster through the snap technology.