Microsoft is reportedly working on launching its “Movies & TV” app – only available on Windows-based platforms like Windows 10 PC, Xbox and Windows 10 Mobile – on Android and iOS-based platforms. According to a report in Windows Central late on Thursday, “Microsoft is building these apps to give consumers more of a reason to buy content in the Microsoft Store”.

Details of Microsoft’s secret Surface device codenamed “Andromeda” that it reportedly plans to release in 2018, have been leaked, suggesting it may come with a dual-display design, the media said. The “pocketable Surface device” that has appeared multipla times in patents is something the company has quietly incubated internally.

New Delhi, Jun 26 () Tech giant Microsoft and Indian mobile ad tech firm InMobi have joined hands to offer artificial intelligence-powered marketing solutions to enterprises.

Under the partnership, InMobi is combining its advertising and marketing cloud capabilities with Microsoft Dynamics 365 on the back of the global Azure (Microsoft's cloud) infrastructure, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and analytics, InMobi founder and CEO Naveen Tewari told .

Joining the likes of Google and Apple, Microsoft has launched Microsoft News – a news engine that curates articles from across the web and delivers them to the users’ Microsoft feed, the media reported. The newly redesigned app for iOS and Android platforms would also power news on “Microsoft Edge”, the News app in Windows 10, Skype, Xbox and Outlook.com.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bonsai, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in San Francisco, to boost its AI and machine learning capabilities. Microsoft said its acquisition of the small startup is “another major step forward in our vision to make it easier for developers and subject matter experts to build the “brains — machine learning model for autonomous systems of all kinds.”

As artificial intelligence (AI) takes centrestage in developing new-age digital technologies, Microsoft Research Lab in India has developed a bouquet of cognitive solutions to address specific challenges faced by enterprises as well as individuals. The solutions developed by the company cover a broad spectrum including helping recruiters to gauge the behaviourial profiles of candidates during virtual job interviews and assisting in real time language translation in vernacular languages among others.

Amid calls for a boycott and employee dissent over its cloud-computing deal with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Microsoft issued a statement saying that the company “is dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border.” The ICE is currently under fire from both sides of the political spectrum for separating migrant parents from their children at the United States-Mexico border.

Microsoft has said it is working on a new Cloud gaming service as it showcased its commitment to invest in gaming and announced studio acquisitions, tons of new games and new Xbox consoles. The announcement was made by Microsoft ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2018, the world’s leading video game show, that is scheduled to held at the Los Angeles Convention Centre from June 12-14.

Talks on Microsoft’s plan to acquire software developer platform GitHub has intensified in the past few week, the Business Insider reported.

The acquisition talks turning serious mark a change of strategy as just six months ago GitHub appeared committed to staying independent, the report said on Friday citing people close to the companies.

Microsoft has rolled out a new update for its last-generation gaming console Xbox 360, launched in 2005. It was last updated in March 2016.

“There are no specific details about what it does, other than bringing ‘minor bug fixes and improvements’,” Techspot reported on Monday.

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