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Ingram Micro announced Microsoft Azure has been added in India to the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace, a leading automated cloud services platform that allows partners to purchase, provision, manage, and invoice cloud technology with confidence and ease. With this announcement, Ingram Micro partners can now offer Azure in a flexible consumption-based, pay-as-you-go pricing model through the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. The Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider program empowers resellers to fully own the end-customer relationship.

Aspire Systems has announced its certification as a Microsoft Gold Partner for DevOps and Application Development, thereby further enhancing the company’s competency in the DevOps and Application Development arena. In addition, Aspire has also attained the Microsoft Silver Partner status for DevOps, Application Development, and Collaboration and Content.

Slack took workplace conversation by storm, and after Facebook just released its take on the concept, now Microsoft is looking to for its own piece of the market. A report by MSPoweruser suggests that the company is set to unveil “Microsoft Teams” next week. The app, which was previously known as Skype Teams, looks a fair bit like Slack, but it comes with Office, Outlook and OneDrive integration and some Skype-style emoji and stickers. Microsoft is hosting an event in New York on November 2, in addition to the Windows 10 event, aimed around collaboration. That sounds like an awfully good theme for revealing a Slack competitor.

Microsoft at its event in New York City is expected to reveal a new Surface device alongside giving updates about its Windows 10 operating system. Ahead of the launch, two new possible product names that are expected to star at the event have made it to the Internet. According to leaked trademark filing, Microsoft may launch its new Surface Laptop alongside an overhauled Paint app dubbed Paint 3D. Brian Conroy, a trademark agent and solicitor based in Dublin, has also discovered Microsoft is after Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Dial trademark filings. Unfortunately, there are not many details available about the Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Dial as of now.

Ubisoft Massive’s The Division may not have been the Destiny killer many had hoped or expected it to be, but it remains a popular game with a rather active player base. That player base will be glad to know that, after a down time of three hours, The Division is now back online and available to play if you first download update 1.4 for the game, which is now available too. Update 1.4 comes in at 5GB, so it makes some rather substantial changes to the game on the client side, too.

Microsoft has usually been on point as far as their offerings for Xbox Live Games with Gold have gone over this past year or so. For the month of November, Microsoft will be offering Super Dungeon Bros., and Murdered: Soul Suspect to Xbox One owners. Super Dungeon Bros. is alright, while Murdered has an interesting premise, which it entirely squanders with botched execution. On the Xbox 360 side, the offerings are far better, subscribers get Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon as well as The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.

Microsoft will launch the Xbox One Scorpio, their new console in Holiday 2017. It promises to be the strongest, most powerful console ever. According to Microsoft, it will be ‘the only console capable of true 4K and hi-fidelity VR’, which technically isn’t untrue, but is still being a tad unfair to especially how great the PlayStation VR is.

Partnerships between major technology companies and payment technology companies, have made online transactions more convenient to the end user, as well as merchants. MasterCard announced that it had integrated Masterpass into Samsung Pay, Microsoft Wallet and Android Pay by Google. Visa has opened its digital payment service to online wallets, and announced Google as one of its first customers. Eric Lockard, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft said “We’re excited to bring Masterpass to Microsoft Wallet users. Masterpass provides an additional payment option for our customers who look to the Microsoft Wallet to conveniently checkout at their favorite online shopping sites.”

Microsoft released a statement, which warns users of the issue that now goes under the name “Hicurdismos”. The problem begins when users are greeted with the infamous ‘Blue Screen Of Death’ (BSOD). Affected users are then required to call the Microsoft Support team on a toll-free number that is mentioned on the ‘fake’ screen. Victims are tricked into calling the help desk on the given number only to be answered by the hackers. Users are then made to install additional software (malware), further affecting the system.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the availability of Modern Workspace, a smart conference room service built in collaboration with leading technology and service providers. HPE Enterprise Services will spearhead smart conference room setups to simplify meeting arrangements and enhance employee collaboration with Microsoft Skype Room Systems including room management and audio/video accessories from EventBoard and Logitech. “The next generation of Skype Room Systems enables a complete Skype for Business meeting room experience in practically any meeting space with a display or projector,” said Giovanni Mezgec, General Manager, Office Partner Marketing, Microsoft.