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When it comes to software piracy, the Redmond giant has a weapon in its arsenal to wipe out piracy from its visionary platform – cloud computing. In a recent patent filed by Microsoft, there is a mention of a tool limiting cloud features for a user marked as a “repeated offender” after trying to share pirated content with another person several times. With this tech, Microsoft won’t have to manually remove any pirated content from its servers.

Answering a Twitter user, Xbox boss Phil Spencer replied, “Looks very good right now, no issues.” That being said, we don’t know much about Scorpio’s release date beyond Holiday 2017.

Microsoft runs a reverse mentoring program called Elevate that leverages the power of generational diversity among teams. “We believe that such programs lead to the evolution of employees, managers and the organization as a whole,” said Ira Gupta, head of HR at Microsoft India. “Through this platform, mentors who are millennials share their perspectives, thoughts and ideas in one-to-one sessions with mentees who are leaders. The leaders gain from an objective view of ground realities and fresh perspectives while our mentors get the opportunity to also learn from the experiences of these senior leaders.”

Microsoft is finally testing a feature that will make the Microsoft Edge browser more secure and safe. The Windows Defender Application Guard was first announced last year, but Microsoft is finally testing it in its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview for Enterprises build (16188).

In an interview with Bloomberg Tech (via MSPoweruser), Microsoft’s Yusif Mehdi revealed, “Windows 10 has been doing great. It’s been many months since we reported we had 400 million monthly active users, but 300 million+ use it every day for 3 and a half hours. It’s the fastest adoption in corporation we’ve ever seen, and we’re seeing great deployment on that. We couldn’t be more thrilled with the progress on Windows.”

The company, in a blog post, wrote about the updated privacy policy, providing information on new LinkedIn features and how information can be used by members. Sara Harrington, Vice President of Legal said, “At LinkedIn, our ‘members first’ philosophy helps guide every decision we make, including how we gather and respect your personal information.”

Microsoft Teams, has received a major overhaul. At the Education special event, Microsoft EDU, the company revealed that it is expanding Teams to the educational space. Microsoft Teams is integrated in Office 365 for education and will be available for free to all Windows 10 S users. The new feature in Teams is targeted mainly towards teachers, to help connect with students while maintaining different groups and different discussions for varied subjects, classrooms.

Radware, a provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, announced that its Alteon NG Application Delivery Controller (ADC) Virtual Appliance (VA) is available on Microsoft Azure to enterprises that need to incorporate an application delivery solutions in their cloud deployment. It now comes with integrated migration tools that make cloud migration simple and easy to execute.

Last weekend, Microsoft unveiled ‘Dubai‘, a totally free font whose matching Latin and Arabic scripts were designed in tandem, with a view to increase legibility on screens. Born out of a collaboration between the company, design foundry Monotype, and the Dubai government, it’s available at no cost in four weights, and touts a strong message encouraging self-expression.

At its EDU event, Microsoft announced a new Code Builder tool to Minecraft: Education Edition – the education version of the popular block-builder game to help teach kids coding. The tool is in beta and will be available for students and teachers at qualifying schools. It essentially allows one to use learn-to-code tools like MakeCode, ScratchX, and Tynker with the game forming as the base of the programming.