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The latest Windows 10 Fall Creators Update preview is extensive, making changes to Edge and Windows Shell, while also brings new Emoji support and numerous other new features across a breadth of services.

The new Station F accelerator is already supporting recast.ai and plans to expand to up to 100 startups in the coming years. Microsoft will join with INRIA to provide a team of researchers and business experts, as well as daily events.

An internally announced reshuffle of Azure, AI, and Data divisions has seen Microsoft introduce several new main groups within the company.

Skype now feels like a new service thanks to an almost complete overhaul that ranges from modern design, intuitive controls, increased bot support, and a new Stories-like feature called Highlights.

XAML Standard is the company’s effort to unify XAML dialects across XAML-based technologies such as UWP and Xamarin.Forms, while .NET Standard 2.0 is a set of APIs which work in all .NET implementations.

Next week in Seattle, Adobe developers will elaborate on how they integrated the Creative Cloud and the Document Cloud of the company into Microsoft’s chat-based workspace.

After delaying the preview release of Cortana Skill Kit, Microsoft will use Build 2017 to host sessions on the Cortana development kit.

Ruuh is an intelligent, english-speaking chatbot that Microsoft expects to be popular with young Indian users. The bot will roll out to other countries as it grows.

The Redmond giant has reached out to prominent developers of Alexa skills to recruit them as Cortana Skills Kit launch partners, claiming its voice assistant has 145 million monthly active users.

Windows 10 Build 15063 fixes a number of issues across PC and mobile, providing a fix for Microsoft Edge problems, OneDrive camera sync, and Bluetooth connection in cars. The upgrade path from Anniversary Update builds will go live this morning.

The company’s chat-based workspace is now available in 181 countries and 19 languages. Microsoft Teams is part of Office 365 and is designed for businesses only.

Microsoft has launched its HealthVault app on Android, iOS, and Windows. The app is a part of the company’s recently announced NExT initiative and helps connect healthcare workers with patients.

The Healthcare NeXT initiative's first partner is the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, which will work with Microsoft to create new and innovative industry solutions.

Microsoft has announced its plans to expand its presence in Montreal’s AI ecosystem and has invested $7 million to research.

Companion devices for Windows Hello are increasing, showing the success of the Windows 10 biometric-based authenticator. Microsoft has detailed some of the devices in a new blog post today.

The latest System Center Management Pack preview for SQL Server vNext introduces a number of new monitoring solutions and compatibility with Operations Manager 2012 R2 and 2016.

Microsoft’s AI aspirations have been in full gear for some time, while the company has been clear about making AI a focus moving forward. Apple has been more secretive about its artificial intelligence plans, but the company is now starting to open up. Is it too little too late to catch Microsoft and other leading AI companies?

The company announces Cortana Skills Kit and Cortana Devices SDK, two software packages designed to help developers and device manufacturers easily incorporate the AI assistant into their products.

Bots are a big part of Microsoft’s plans, as the company explained at AI Day. The Zo chat bot is now official and Microsoft also talked about bots coming to Skype, Cortana SDK, and Bing Ads.

Zo is the latest chat bot from Microsoft and is available for Kik. Like the company’s previous effort Tay, the new bot will learn and adapt overtime and get better at dialog and answering questions.