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In an interview, Norm Judah, Chief Technology Officer of Worldwide Services, Microsoft, said, “The steps taken are positive. According to our recent survey, digital transformation in education revealed that problem solving, collaboration and digital literacy are among the top skills required by students to adapt to future workplaces and for teachers it was about transformation in teaching and learning experiences.”

Microsoft is seeing success with Windows 10 OS and it recently launched its Creators Update for desktops and laptops. Turns out Microsoft is now rolling out the Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update to supported handsets.

Women in Technology (WIT), a joint initiative between the IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners) and WPG (the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group) is exploring the possibility of conducting webinars related to technology awareness. These webinars will be focused on Girl Students in colleges, Underprivileged Girls or General Partner Community.

‘Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite’ is going to release on Xbox One on 19th September 2017. For the first time in franchise history, the Marvel and Capcom universes will collide in a visually stunning and immersive cinematic Story Mode, as heroes and villains battle together to save their merged worlds from a sinister new threat, Ultron Sigma.

Microsoft has recently announced new tools and resources to help organizations tap into the power of the hybrid cloud to optimize their business. However, cloud-first is no more restricted to cloud-only, since not all customers – especially large enterprises or highly regulated organizations – are ready or able to move fully to public cloud for a variety of valid reasons like latency concerns, industry regulation, data sovereignty, and customization.

Migration to Windows 10 is expected to be faster than previous operating system (OS) adoption, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The six-country survey, which includes India, Forty-nine percent of respondents mentioned security improvements, and cloud integration capabilities (38 percent) were the reasons to migrate.

At Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit 2017, Qualcomm Incorporated, through its subsidiary, Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. (QDT), announced a collaboration with Microsoft to accelerate next generation cloud services on its 10 nanometer Qualcomm Centriq 2400 platform. This collaboration will span multiple future generations of hardware, software and systems.

Microsoft has integrated its enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management system Dynamics 365 with ‘LinkedIn Sales Navigator Tool’ to give sales people access to its database of 500 million users. Users with both Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn can get contextual recommendations and provide tailored content, as well as account and lead updates, the company said in a statement.

Mentor, a Siemens business, announced that it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. “Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT extends our promise to bring IoT to business scale, starting with interoperable solutions from leading technology companies around the world,” said Barb Edson, General Manager for Data Platform and Internet of Things, Microsoft Corp.”