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The Xbox One S is a gorgeous console. It’s a beautiful piece of engineering, and the best part is that it also lends itself extremely well to custom console designs. Two of these custom console designs that will be released, in bundles, will be the Gears of War 4 Xbox One S and the Battlefield 1 Xbox One S.

Last year, Microsoft introduced the Surface Book as the ‘ultimate laptop’. It finally reached the UK earlier this year an age after its debut in the US. Like the Surface tablets before it, this laptop takes a unique spin on the notebook format that’s been around for more than 40 years. Between the 3:2 aspect ratio, 13.5-inch screen and its practically trademarked ‘dynamic fulcrum’ hinge, there isn’t any machine on the planet like the Surface Book.

Microsoft is actively maintaining its domain-specific P language to let developers write safe asynchronous event-driven programs for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. Originally launched in 2015, the open source P language is known for modeling component communication of asynchronous systems. P language creates programs in the form of finite state machines, and each state machine has an input queue, states, machine-local store and ability to send asynchronous messages to others.

Microsoft has released a new Skype version for Linux users that brings video calling support. The latest Skype for Linux Alpha, version 1.10, presently allows you to make one-on-one video calls only between Skype for Linux Alpha clients. “The team has been working hard on bringing video calls on Linux and today we have the experimental version ready for you.” the Skype team writes in a blog post.

Microsoft Corp has launched its online store with Tata CLiQ, the e-commerce portal of Tata group. Priyadarshi Mohapatra, Country General Manager, Consumer Channel Group, Microsoft India, said, “We are expanding our online presence through our official Microsoft store so that our consumers find it easier to experience and buy our products. We are excited to partner with Tata CLiQ and see tremendous opportunity in delivering Microsoft products and services through them to our customers.”

Microsoft has elaborated on the new patching policy for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 that takes effect Tuesday. In a post to a company blog accompanied by graphics, Michael Niehaus, a Product Marketing Director for Windows 10, fleshed out the massive change in how Windows 7, the standard in business and the most popular OS on the planet, will be serviced starting with this month’s Patch Tuesday.

The most recent Microsoft operating system update, Redstone 1, also dubbed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update 1607, brings plenty of enterprise IT updates, including these seven EMM features. The six most notable features in the latest update are: Windows Information Protection, MDM updates, Windows Hello for Business, Upgraded analytics, Malware updates and App management & customization.

The new Microsoft AI and Research Group will be led by computer vision pioneer and Executive Vice President Harry Shum, whose 20-year Microsoft career involves leading Bing’s search efforts from 2007 through 2013 and helping launch Microsoft Research China. In an interaction, Shum, said, “I just feel that the timing’s right to go big on AI.”

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has identified machine learning as the firm’s key focus as cloud computing usage becomes more widespread. Speaking at an event in London’s Canary Wharf financial district, Nadella’s sales pitch placed emphasis on the role of machine learning across Microsoft’s range of cloud products – from infrastructure and platform as a service offering in Azure, to its Dynamics and Office365 cloud software.

After the announcement of Dynamics 365 and AppSource at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2016, Microsoft demonstrated the integrated CRM and ERP for its partners and customers. “Dynamics 365 will allow partners to be more deeply involved on their customers’ business processes, creating new business opportunities that couldn’t be pursued before”, Takeshi Numoto, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Cloud + Enterprises said in a blog post. The Dynamics 365 is set to release on November 1.