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Microsoft made a host of announcements at Build 2017 in Seattle this week – Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is coming later this year with a brand-new video editing app and other features like Cloud-enabled clipboard, OneDrive Files On-Demand, Timeline to revisit all your activity, and a whole lot more. But at the end of the day, Build is a developer’s conference and there was a whole lot more in store for those who design apps and services on Microsoft platforms.

There has been no major impact of the WannaCry attack on the country, government officials said, even as they remained on high alert to safeguard key infrastructure such as banking. Sundararajan said the government conferred with software maker Microsoft and antivirus provider McAfee. “On March 13, CERT-In issued a detailed alert. Organizations across the government have already updated the patch.”

The Xbox One will have full support for keyboards in the coming days thanks to the Xbox Live Creators Program. Announced by Microsoft’s Andrew Parsons at Build 2017, where the company’s new Fluent design system was also unveiled.

Microsoft will try to make Windows 10 more versatile with a wave of new features for creating memories, exploring virtual scenery and hopscotching from personal computers to mobile devices. The added bells and whistles will roll out later this year as part of “Fall Creators Update” that will be provided for free to 500 million personal computers, smartphones and tablets powered by Windows 10.

Microsoft developers cheered when the company unveiled its latest image-recognition technology, which is coming soon to Windows 10 devices. The moment underscored Microsoft’s investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and its determination to keep up with Alphabet and Apple. Using the new Story Remix app, which is meant to replace the standard-issue Windows 10 Photos app — Microsoft Executive Lorraine Bardeen showed how users can add animations on top of videos that then move along with the action.

Microsoft has taken the unusual step of re-releasing security updates for some older versions of its Windows platforms to counter a massive global wave of cyber ransomware attacks. In a blog post, the US tech giant recalled that it had published an update in March to address the weakness exploited in attacks, a security flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency.

Microsoft had taken everyone by surprise when it decided to sell Samsung’s latest flagship Galaxy S8 in its own stores. Now, strongholding its commitment towards a non-Windows mobile ecosystem at this year’s Build conference, confirming that in addition to Android, iPhones are also a key part of its vision. Company executives who took the stage used iPhones for most demos, and this happened for a good reason: all the new Windows 10 features that will be part of the Fall Creators Update will work on Apple’s device as well.

India has become a land of software developers with the country accounting for the third largest number of such professionals, a senior Microsoft official has said. Driven by immense opportunities that the Indian Government’s digitization program, it opens up a new vista of more than a billion plus market inside the country, there is a new level of enthusiasm and confidence among the Indian developer’s community, said Narendra Bhandari, GM Developer Group in India, Microsoft.

Microsoft Academia Accelerator, the tech giant’s campus engagement program, will see an increased presence and reach among Indian educational institutions. In an interaction, Anil Bhansali, Managing Director, Microsoft India (R&D) said, “Each year we work with various academic institution. We have fairly deep engagement and work closely with faculty in terms of courses, guest lectures. Our goal is to work with students and foster a culture of innovation and expose them to newer technologies and skills.”

Artificial intelligence or AI as it is called in cyber parlance, and believed to be the next big thing in information and technology, can play key role in good governance, a senior Microsoft official has said. “We are seeing that governments are benefitting through Artificial Intelligence and are able to bring governance closer to people in their countries,” Dave Forstrom, Director of Communications for the Artificial Intelligence (AI) group at Microsoft.