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Microsoft has launched its cloud version of its PhotoDNA service, which helps law enforcement services and websites detect illegal images including those depicting child sexual abuse from massive photo libraries. Microsoft says that it has enhanced the algorithm used to identify illegal images making PhotoDNA 1,000 times faster than previous versions.

As part of Surat Smart City project, IT giants IBM and Microsoft will prepare a comprehensive database of citizens, which will have all details about their professional skills. The data will include all possible skills of persons such has gardeners, house maids, drivers, doctors, etc. Besides the skills, the data will also include the medical history of people. The process of data collection will begin next month and will be completed in six months.

The Citrix app and desktop virtualization software and migration tools enable partners and IT organizations to deliver immediate access to core business applications on new Windows 10 PCs and tablets, simplify the rollout of Windows 10 desktops and streamline the business app migration process.

Just after announcing the global launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has declared its plan to bring its much acclaimed Surface 2-in-1 devices to the Indian market. According to Vineet Durani, Director – Windows Business Group at Microsoft (India), the company is looking at bringing the Surface devices to India, following feedback from its current and potential customers including CXOs.

Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella’s emphasis on “mobile-first, cloud-first world” fits well into India’s needs as the strategy will ensure affordable technology to millions of small businesses, a senior company executive has said. “We have millions of small businesses that are beginning to understand that technology can be helpful to businesses and grow their top line and bottom line,” said, Meetul Patel, General manager SMS&P, at Microsoft India.

The tech industry is increasingly supporting Microsoft’s Cloud computing platform, Azure. Enterprise virtualisation company, Odin, has announced its support of Azure services automation offered through the Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program. Announced at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, service providers will now be able to offer Azure services through the CSP program. Partners can manage the lifecycle of their own customers with direct provisioning, billing and 24/7 support of Microsoft Cloud services.

Gabe Aul, Head of the Windows Insider program took the opportunity to announce performance findings from the latest Windows 10 build. He said, “The Edge team has been continuing to optimise performance since first adding the new browser to Windows 10. In this build, Microsoft Edge is even better and is beating Chrome and Safari on their own JavaScript benchmarks – On WebKit Sunspider, Edge is 112% faster than Chrome.”

Microsoft has renovated an online store that combines its Windows Store and Windows Phone Store into one big virtual shopping mall. The newly redesigned app store is part of the company’s attempt to unify the Windows 10 experience across all devices — PCs, tablets and mobile phones. Now this one-stop shop is geared for everyone.

Terming the launch of the much-awaited Windows 10 as “seminal”, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner has said the company expects to have a billion devices based on the latest version of the Operating System by 2018. Turner, in his keynote address to over 14,000 Microsoft partners, vendors and resellers here yesterday, said Windows 10 was the greatest operating system the company had released.

Microsoft Corporation has agreed to develop ‘digital villages’ and a ‘smart MIDC’ (Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation) in Maharashtra under the state’s ‘Make in Maharashtra’ initiative. The company has also said that it will set up a cyber-security centre in Maharashtra’s IT hub Pune and also agreed to adopt a tribal village in Melghat district, in order to provide ‘tertiary health services’ to the weaker sections of the society.