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Microsoft has expanded its existing bug bounty programme to cover open source .NET Core and ASRNET Core. To reach out to developers who dig into the RTM, beta and RC releases of the community-backed platforms, Microsoft is giving away bounty payouts from US$ 500 to US$ 15,000, based on the quality of the report.

Microsoft is forging partnerships with Salesforce, the market leader in Consumer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions. The company recently bagged HP Software CRM deal where HP will move away from Salesforce and Oracle products to Microsoft Dynamics CRM for next six years as reported by Fortune.

Microsoft took a slightly different approach while releasing Forza Horizon 3 in India, co-hosting the event in Mumbai with partner, Lamborghini. Developed by Playground Games, this title has been published by Microsoft itself, and is the third entry to the Horizon sub-series and the ninth overall. Forza Horizon 3 can be purchased for both the Xbox One console as well as PC at a price of Rs 3999.

Microsoft, which very recently seeded a software update to users of its Lumia 550 and Lumia 650 smartphones, published the official changelog of the new firmware. Now, the Redmond-based company has issued a full list of new aspects that users of these handsets can check out after installation. A major USP of the new software update is that it brings the double tap to wake functionality to Lumia 650 smartphones, especially to those users who were left out during the first round of seeding of the update.

Microsoft has announced the Windows Defender Application Guard for Edge on Windows 10. The Windows Defender Application Guard uses virtualization technology to isolate the instances of Edge run on Windows machines. The feature is designed to give better security to enterprises. According to Microsoft, Edge has the lowest number of vulnerabilities compared to any other browser on the Windows platform.

At its Ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft announced a preview of Project Springfield, a cloud-based tool designed to help developers detect bugs in their Windows-based applications. The main component in Project Springfield is SAGE, a fuzz testing tool that Microsoft used to uncover security flaws in Windows 7. The company says that the cost of deploying patches for majorly distributed software like OSes can go up to a million dollars each; SAGE helped surface a third of all the vulnerabilities that would’ve cost Microsoft that much to fix.

Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster, thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers. The company announced that it has deployed hundreds of thousands of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) across servers in 15 countries and five different continents. The chips have been put to use in a variety of first-party Microsoft services, and they’re now starting to accelerate networking on the company’s Azure cloud platform.

Microsoft and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have joined forces on a project to use blockchain technology to make trade finance transactions faster, cheaper, safer and more transparent. The two multinationals said at the Sibos Financial Services conference in Geneva that they would build and test the technology and create a blockchain-based framework that could eventually be sold to other businesses.

Microsoft and Workday have joined hands to expand the business solutions their joint customers can use to continually optimize the way work gets done. This strategic partnership will deliver integrations that mirror where and how people want to work across Microsoft Office 365 and Workday’s finance and HR applications. “Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet, and key to this is forging strategic partnerships with companies including Workday,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The Assassin’s Creed franchise has famously skipped coming out with a game this year, and it looks like the under-development game which was supposed to be out in 2017 may not be launched next year after all. The latest main game from the Ubisoft franchise was Assassin’s Creed Syndicate which was launched in December 2014 for the PS4, the Xbox One and PC.