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NoBully, UNESCO, educators, and representatives from companies and non-profits from nine countries met in London last month to begin brainstorming the framework for a worldwide campaign to stop online bullying. The Redmond giant has announced it has joined the cause.

Microsoft's .NET API Browser will provide a single place for documentation of all .NET APIs. The site features IntelliSense-like search, adjusting content tables, and contributions via markdown.

The latest update brings the version number to 15.1 and adds support for Xamarin Workbooks for C# 7. It also brings several performance improvements.

The State Bank of India will now use Microsoft’s Office 365 for its productivity needs across 222,033 employees. The deal follows similar collaborations with Flipkart and Tata Motors.

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.

Project Sangam is a platform focused on bridging the skills gap in India. It uses Microsoft’s various cloud services and LinkedIn’s expansive jobs search platform to connect skilled workers with employees.

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.

Cortana Suggested Reminders searches through user's Outlook inbox for commitments and automatically schedules reminders to send files, create appointments, and various other tasks. The feature previously appeared in Insider builds, and is now available to US customers.

Satya Nadella has acknowledged the danger of AI to the job market, advising businesses to build AI intelligently into software and services. He believes the next two years will be essential in creating an open environment for artificial intelligence.

The Microsoft Garage is expanding to three more international destinations in 2017. We have spoken with Anne Legato, Chief Communicator at the Microsoft Garage to learn about how Microsoft runs this employee-driven initiative.

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 latest update for the company’s commercial machine learning platform is R Server 9.0. With this availability, Microsoft has also announced R Client 3.3.2 for Windows.

Microsoft has brought attention to a malware that is using the large volume of Black Friday purchases to successfully spoof Amazon emails. Opening the attached files results in important documents being locked.

Despite having its own Dynamics 365 solution, Microsoft has expanded ties with SAP and will use SuccessFactors to provide human resources management across its 114,000 employees.

Azure NC and Azure NV are a part of Microsoft’s new N-Series powered by the Nvidia Tesla range of GPUs. The company has been previewing the virtual machines since August.

Microsoft stock has reached over sixty dollars following a Q1 FY17 financial report. Azure revenue has grown a huge 116% year-on-year.

The company’s Cortana Intelligence Solutions are a major part of Microsoft’s cloud first strategy and expand how users can easily analyze and interact with data.

Microsoft launched the Interactive Data Exploration, Analysis and Reporting (IDEAR) and Automated Modeling and Reporting (AMAR) utilities.

The Bing search engine has been given a number of new tools designed to help students. Among the new features is the ability to see detailed information on molecules and understand the popularity of words.

Announced in January, Minecraft Education Edition brings some specific learning-oriented features to the Minecraft experience. After spending the summer in beta, the service will launch to the Windows Store in October.