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Microsoft is planning to commercialize a unique and indigenous bug-detecting technology and make it available to customers and partners. According to a zdnet.com report, the service codenamed “Project Springfield” was developed internally by Microsoft Research to find and remove bugs in Microsoft products. “This (service) is about finding really deep bugs that are hard to find with conventional testing,” Vikram Dendi, Chief Product Officer with Microsoft Research NexT, was quoted as saying.

If you’ve been mulling over the purchase of a game console for some time now, this October might be the best time to pick one up. But which one should you go for? Judging by the deals we’ve seen, it’s now possible to grab a PlayStation 4 for Rs 26,000, or an Xbox One Kinect bundle for the same price. If you’ve got your heart set on a certain game, just pick the console that offers it.

Microsoft has upgraded the user interface on the Office 365 App Launcher to make it look more like the Windows 10 start menu. The experience is designed to be consistent across desktops and Microsoft Surface devices. There is now a tabbed layout with three sections, home, new and all. The home screen where users can organize and pin their most used applications.

Microsoft has officially released a new version of Skype for Linux. The latest update includes a range of improvements in the previously existing features alongside new additions especially integrated to make the user experience more convenient. Users will now be able to mute notifications for specific conversations and even disable emoticons. Support for system HTTPS proxy and /me command have also been integrated with the latest version.

Nine students from the CSE and IT departments of V.R. Siddhartha Engineering College have bagged placements in software giant Microsoft. Tankala Dinesh Kumar (CSE), Murakonda Nagarjuna (CSE), Pullagura Sravya (CSE), Putcha Rohit Kumar (CSE), Saranam Sai Raghavendra Krishna Kiriti (IT), Sumanth Kumar Gogineni (CSE), Mallela Padma Priya (CSE), Yalamanchili Harika (IT) and Gopavarapu Ravali (IT) are the lucky students to have bagged jobs with the software giant

A number of times we see people across geographies indulging in business transactions. When the distance becomes an issue, IT comes to the rescue, and that is exactly what happened in a recently released video by Microsoft. Microsoft’s creative depiction gives a strong message to make the end user cautious while making online transactions and proactively take charge of their digital assets before the hackers make them their own! So before the day closes, do update your systems and stay safe in the cyberspace.

Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 3 is a visually stunning achievement on the Xbox One. Taking place in Australia, the game manages to capture the beauty and essence of Down under; from lush rain forests to dense urban areas, Forza Horizon 3 is one of the best looking open world racers of this generation. In an era where the Xbox One has mostly struggled to run AAA games at a full native 1080p resolution, Forza Horizon 3 not only runs at that standard but amps up the image quality with 4x MSAA which results into a clean and crisp image. Forza Horizon 3 is bigger and better in terms of world size and intricate details compared to its predecessor making the 30fps cap sound reasonable.

The Xbox One Scorpio is going to be, to use Microsoft’s own parlance here, a ‘beast’ of a console. “The developers have to go through a transition, just like customers,” Microsoft’s Albert Penello said in an interview with The Guardian. “We are spending as much time and energy on our dev tools as we are on anything customer-facing. Making it easier for developers to take advantage of the power, making it easier for developers who are working on an Xbox One game to get a great Scorpio game and vice versa – we’re developing those tools now.”

Microsoft’s Phil Spencer said in an interview with Stevivor. “We’ve never seen a console sell that many units. The approach the team took was people are moving to OTT Video Services [over-the-top, like Netflix and Stan] and television’s getting disrupted and if we could build a console that could be at the center of this transition and really embrace not only people playing video games, but also people with the changing habits in television, you really take the console market and the gaming market and you expand it potentially.”

Looks like Microsoft’s Xbox One S gambit was a success – the redesigned, slimline console appears to have taken the UK market by storm, where sales of the Xbox One rose by 989% week on week following its launch. That’s not all, either, as for the week ending September 24, Xbox One S held a staggering 71% of the hardware market- up 76% year on year. “It’s great to see how popular both the Xbox One S and the FIFA 17 Xbox One S consoles are with fans, not just over the last week but since the Xbox One S was released in August. 4K
video streaming and 4K UHD Blu-ray have been extremely well received and we believe there is no better value right now for those looking to upgrade their console,” Xbox UK marketing boss Harvey Eagle told MCV.