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Microsoft launched WISE in 2014 to inspire women engineers to pursue rewarding careers in the field of software technology. “We have worked with partners who interacted in local and regional colleges to help the volunteers offer the students a strong platform that nurtures their technical capabilities and enhances their soft skills to be job-ready at the end of the programme,” told Charumathy Srinivasan, Partner Group Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft India Development Center. The idea stemmed from a group of women engineers at Microsoft India who wanted to help women engineering students carve out successful careers in technology.

GoDaddy’s India & Australia MD & Vice President, Rajiv Sodhi has resigned and would be heading to Microsoft starting December where he would be leading the Cloud and Server business. Sodhi is an old timer at Microsoft where he was earlier the Director, India SMB, Cloud and Software Sales. He had been at Microsoft between 2002 and 2012, when he quit to join GoDaddy.

In an opinion piece, Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Group Program Manager, AI and Research Division, Microsoft India Pvt Ltd, said, “Bots are now taking center stage. As these technologies evolve, the popular prediction is that conversations will be prevalent between people, digital assistants and bots. Given this, Microsoft is making available the Microsoft Bot Framework, a comprehensive offering that a developer can use to build and deploy high quality bots for their users. This framework along with associated API offerings from Microsoft will enable developers to take advantage of technologies like Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Adult and Offensive filtering, Image Processing etc., to enable new and custom bots which are not only conversational and intuitive, but also possess deep capabilities.”

Microsoft is planning on pushing the best, most high end specs into the console market ever- in fact, that seems to be the very point of the Scorpio. “Hey, I want the most power, I want the best experience possible,” and that’s what Project Scorpio is all about,’ Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg said in an interview with IGN. ‘It will be the most powerful console ever made. It will deliver 4K gaming to people in the living room on their TVs that they have not experienced before.’

Microsoft announced a completely revamped version of its painting app, simply named Paint 3D. Now the Redmond-based company has made the new version of its painting app available for use with its latest Windows 10 Insider Preview build. Paint 3D, put simply, allows users to make their paintings in 2D as well as 3D using various tools at their disposal. Even though the app doesn’t introduce a breakthrough technology, because of its simplicity and easy controls, it can be termed as a 3D painting tool meant for use by a wide range of users.

Microsoft has announced that it will now put its effort into doubling down its quantum computing research, in an aim to produce a scalable quantum computer using what is called, a topological qubit. Microsoft Executive Todd Holmdahl will lead the scientific and engineering effort to create scalable quantum hardware and software. He has also played a key role in the development of other products such as Xbox, Kinect and HoloLens. “I think we’re at an inflection point in which we are ready to go from research to engineering,” said Holmdahl, who is the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s quantum program.

In the ongoing efforts to influence developers, Microsoft has now replaced the iconic Command Prompt with PowerShell. The open source command-line tool has been debuted on the latest Windows 10 preview. Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14971 has brought PowerShell as the “de facto” command shell in File Explorer. You can access its existence through a Windows and X key combination or from the context menu that appears with a shift and right-click on the whitespace in File Explorer.

Brigade Enterprises, one of the leading real estate developers in India, recently launched the country’s first real estate focused accelerator program. The accelerator will mentor startups whose products or services can be used in the real estate industry across various domains be it Residential, Office, Retail or Hospitality. Naveen Asrani, Director, Startups, Microsoft Corporation India, said, “We are excited to be associated with Brigade Group’s real estate focused accelerator program. It is the first of its kind in the country and should give rise to high-impact solutions in the real estate space. We believe that this partnership will give the much-needed impetus for technology adoption in the Real estate sector in India.”

According to Goldman Sachs, investors should buy Microsoft stock because earnings will top expectations in coming years due to its cloud computing business. The firm upgraded the shares of the technology company to buy from neutral. “We believe the shares are poised to more consistently outperform in the year ahead on the back of sustained traction in its Cloud offerings (Azure and Office 365) overlaid by steady albeit not spectacular performance out of its legacy PC-linked software business,” analyst Heather Bellini wrote in a note to clients.

The PS4 Pro and the Xbox One Scorpio are fascinating and interesting, not just because they are an altogether new paradigm for console gaming, but also because of the stark differences in the two approaches – the PS4 Pro is a relatively more conservative approach next to the Scorpio, which represents a total overhaul of the Xbox One. “It has generally been more difficult to reach 60fps on Xbox One than on PS4, so Scorpio will be a very welcome change. I’ve yet to see the functional differences in the Scorpio GPU but Scorpio definitely has a significant advantage in terms of memory bandwidth, so we’ll definitely be seeing higher fidelity games on there,” said, Mark Williams, Technical Director at VooFoo Studios.