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The update brings several new features to Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Visio. Microsoft has also released an Insider build for iOS which brings new features to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iOS.

Power BI Mobile on iOS now supports Apple’s 3D Touch, allowing common interactions without opening the app. On Android, users can now connect up to five different SSRS servers at the same time.

Microsoft has now fixed a slowdown issue that has been persistent in Linux versions of OneDrive for several months. The developers have disabled the offending feature for now and have plans to implement it after some tweaking.

Microsoft’s backup service will now take application consistent backups for enterprise critical applications running on popular Linux distros. Applications such as MySQL, InterSystems Caché® DB and SAP HANA are supported.

Analyst Brent Bracelin from Pacific Crest has downgraded Amazon’s price target and growth expectation, noting that both Microsoft and Google have created viable alternatives to the Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The new L Series virtual machines are ideal for MongoDB, Cassandra, and other low latency databases. Microsoft has made the series available in select regions with up to 32 CPU Cores driven by Intel’s Xeon 55 v3 processors.

In a push to integrate Azure HDInsight and DocumentDB, Microsoft will discuss a host of new capabilities for the cloud services at Strata + Hadoop World this week. Among the additions are real-time data analysis with Apache Spark for DocumentDB, and the company’s most secure Hadoop offering for HDInsight.

Azure Data Lake Analytics and Azure Data Lake Store are now available to customers in the Northern Europe. The services allow users to analyse and store big data across platforms and languages.

To coincide with the launch of Visual Studio 2017, Microsoft has collaborated with Pluralsight to brings technology learning courses to the platform. VS subscribers now have free access to the technology learning platform and its benefits.

The VM, acs, storage and network commands of Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 have been made available to the public.

After recent MondgoDB security issues, Microsoft is welcoming developers to Azure DocumentDB. In a blog post, the company has talked about the benefits of making the change.

The Mirai botnet now has a Windows variant via a C++ trojan. The virus can modify the registry, modify Microsoft SQL Databases, and identify and infect IoT devices. Security firms are rolling out updates for the new threat.

The latest Stream Analytics update also introduces Visual Studio integration, real-time data monitoring via PowerBI, and an Azure Monitoring preview for the service. Combined, the changes result in a significant increase in productivity.

Microsoft is widening StorSimple accessibility outside of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement user base. Small and medium businesses can now take advantage of the solution via pay-as-you-go or MDSN.

The company aims to lure IT pros who are using Windows in their data centers to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and expects to provide an alternative for companies that don’t want to be tied to Microsoft.

Project Manifest has been developed in collaboration with IoT platform creator Mojix and helps supply chains keep track of products.

Xamarin users can now access Azure DocumentDB features directly in the service without needing a middle-tier. Microsoft says customers now have a fully manage NoSQL database as a service directly within Xamarin

Azure Analysis Services is now available in seven regions since it was launched in preview during October. The PaaS is an OLAP engine and BI modelling platform that makes it easier for organizations to manage and share data.

The Live Monitoring Dashboard is now available as open source on GitHub. The web app allows Azure Media Services (AMS) customers to see the health and status of each deployment.

Azure Security Center now supports a total of four Windows Server VMs, including 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016. The functionality is available for free as part of a 90-day trial.