Microsoft has taken on the Edge Browser to iOS and Android operating systems

An Android app development company India provides services to build applications for one of the most popular platforms these days, the Android operating system. At present, Microsoft takes on the struggling Edge Browser to Android and iOS operating systems. Edge uses the same WebKit engine, which powers the Safari of Apple. The Android Edge in the meantime is based on the Blink engine that Google maintains for Chrome. With Microsoft Edge available on the two operating systems, the user base will triple. Not only that, Microsoft also makes it easier for users to synchronize passwords, tabs and other information to be more available. This will be very productive and empowers people to do and of course achieve more.

EDGE FOR MOBILE APPS TESTING

Microsoft has announced that it had created Android and iOS versions of its struggling Edge browser and will make both available to users for testing. This is great news for any mobile app design company, whether in India or in other places where mobile application development is one of the major source of income. Microsoft cast the Edge variations as vital in fleshing out the Windows 10 feature known as ‘Continue on PC’, that would debut with the Fall Creators Update, aka 1709 upgrade that begun shipping in October 17.

The feature links a particular phone or tablet, to a Windows 10 personal computer. It then automatically hands off certain in-progress tasks, like a half-finished Office document that’s opened in a browser, from device to device. What the Edge on Android or iOS truly stand out is its ability of continuing on a personal computer. It enables a developer to open the page immediately right on a personal computer or save it for work later.

SELLING POINT FOR WINDOWS 10

Consumers will not care much about this, but organization employees working on Office 365 that have a meeting, could grab their phone and fix a document in a car or in a plane. This could be a big deal to them. What may appear as only a minor convenience for consumers could be a selling point for Windows 10 in the organization. Microsoft is all about the enterprise market.

PROMOTING EDGE

It makes sense for Microsoft to promote Edge instead of relying on a rival browser for iOS and Android, even if Edge on these platforms is only a wrapper around the other rendering engines. As any developer could appreciate, learning and testing is an integral part of launching a new product. It is something that should not be taken lightly. The app for iOS is available now for a limited audience in the TestFlight system of Apple. The Android application would be available shortly through the Play Store Early Access of Android. Consistent with Windows 10 engineering approach, feedback could be listened throughout the preview and would update the applications regularly with new features and fixes. When feedback show that quality is great, the apps would be available for public download, a goal is to do it later this year.

THE PLATFORMS AND ENGINES

One of the most common questions of a web developer is what engine is used. Is EdgeHTML ported to iOS and Android? Choices are related directly to how people think about the goals of EdgeHTML engine itself on Windows 10. A web platform is a complex technology, which in a lot of respects duplicates the aspects of the whole operating system in one application. Part of the strategy with EdgeHTML is building an engine that, rather than replicating, the underlying platform works and integrates with it to deliver the best security possible, battery life, interactivity, accessibility, and simply pure raw performance on the platform. The EdgeHTML on Windows 10, it drives the web forward with new capabilities as well as supporting interoperable standards. Microsoft is fully committed to continue to do so in the future, across the entire Windows 10 platforms and form factors spectrum.

On iOS, Microsoft uses the WebKit engine as provided by iOS in WkWebView control. This means that from a compatibility view point, Microsoft Edge for iOS has to match the version of Safari, that available currently for iOS. On Android, it uses the Blink rendering engine from the Chromium browser project. The approach provides better performance and more control, compared to using the Android WebView control. In a compatibility point of view, Microsoft Edge for Android would match the Chrome version, that’s presently available for Android.

Microsoft Edge on Android and iOS would make people’s lives easier since there is no need to switch between devices trying to remember a password or article. Users want services that are easy and convenient, wherein they could access data without the need to enter their information in another browser. Some people have as much as fifty and over different accounts and passwords they are expected to remember.

Microsoft is helping companies and businesses track carbon emissions

The Microsoft update is all about helping companies track carbon emissions. Microsoft’s Azure solution gathers real-time carbon emissions data from the WattTime API or Application Programming Interface as well as from the global weather data. The software giant is doing its part to make the world pollution free through offering organizations a platform that is environment-friendly. It’s called the ‘Smart Energy Azure Demonstration’, which could help businesses track energy emissions almost on a real-time basis.

MICROSOFT OFFERS A GREEN PLATFORM

The green platform is available on the Cloud Computing service Azure that uses tech from WattTime, which is a US-based organization that brings clean energy to IoT and buildings that users data from power grid operators all throughout the country and enable companies to keep tabs on their carbon emissions. The partnership of Microsoft office with WattTime provide power users the freedom to opt when and potentially to where they want electricity to come from. Customers for the first time could determine the carbon footprint of the power generator, which would be tapped when flipping on a switch. This enables customers to optimize where and when they use power to lower emissions. This visualizes data in time, demonstrating the ability of collecting related data pieces to one place to enable automation to act on the conclusions gathered from it.

USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO BOOST ENERGY EFFICIENCY

The environmental strategy of Microsoft is based on three themes, namely, using IT to boost energy efficiency, accelerate research breakthroughs and demonstrate responsible environmental leadership. Society these days has the opportunity of using software for eliminating more greenhouse gas emissions every year than released currently to hasten tech breakthroughs, which enable the transition to a more energy-efficient and cleaner economy. The investment focuses on reducing energy use from information technology.

With energy efficient gains, the IT landscape could significantly increase computing productivity with no need to increase the amount of energy consumed by computers. Microsoft would work with other leading firms to utilize software for driving considerable energy efficiency gains in everything, from transportation, buildings to energy grids and manufacturing. Furthermore, Microsoft is developing solutions that help organizations as well as governments track carbon emission easily.

RESEARCH BREAKTHROUGHS ACCELERATION

Microsoft works with leading scientists to widen the boundaries of the knowledge of the planet. Furthermore, they are also working to build technologies, tools and models to accelerate scientific comprehension on a worldwide scale. The efforts include:

1. Allowing fundamental science advances. Microsoft is working with a scientific community for monitoring environmental conditions and to develop computational tools and methods to aid scientists analyze and correlate data across research efforts.

2. Provide the scientific community access to computing power. The tech giant would work with leading scientists worldwide for access to research, facilities, collaboration tools and computing power to help advance the scientific research.

3. Model the impact of climate change. Microsoft helps create advanced modeling technologies, which help boost the understanding of local and global climate changes as well as the consequences on the environment of human activity on ecosystems and species.

Reportedly, Microsoft is testing the program in various regions in the United States, but provided Greenbiz with an example only from Princeton University. Princeton uses a combination of energy sources that include the Princeton Energy Plant to provide steam, electricity and chilled water for powering, heating and cooling the buildings on the campus. Furthermore, the university used to determine the energy requirements using information on supply, cost and data on carbon emission what was months old. Now, Princeton would be able to make better determinations of energy use with more updated information on their carbon dioxide emissions.

THE WATTTIME TECHNOLOGY

The technology of WattTime aims to make it easier even for an average person to better regulate and reduce carbon footprint. For organizations, information typically was available on a yearly average. Today, companies using Microsoft Azure can get updated emissions information every five minutes. A demo is available on GitHub, together with an explanation, which breaks down the workings of the technology. The demo solution showcases how data from various web-based APIs could be mined, visualized and acted on in an Azure solution. The solution gathers carbon emission in real time from the WattTime API, global weather data and weather forecasts coming from the Wunderground API. Then it visualizes data to enable a user to understand the relationship between the two.

Now, there are more windows wherein there are more opportunities for low-emissions, low-cost electricity. Organizations would know better when to target energy consumptions. Setup for the program needs help from software experts who are using Microsoft Azure. This is where the GitHub demonstration comes in.

Read more information: http://www.btvi.in/article/read/technology/28010/how-microsoft-cloud-helps-companies-track-carbon-emissions

Your Future Office: Traditional, Cloud, Microsoft or Google?

The future office could be traditional, cloud, Microsoft or Google. Whatever an enterprise chooses, the key for success is to choose a system that could best meet the specific requirements of the company as well as the customer needs.

In today’s continuous change in business processes and customer requirements, a business needs to consider what its future office would be like. Whether it would opt for traditional computing, cloud computing, Microsoft or Google. For those who are undecided as to what office to choose, it would be a good idea to know these four choices to make a well-informed decision.

When it comes to the difference between traditional and cloud computing, the major differences is in the delivery mode or access to computing resources and the associated cost as well. In traditional computing, typically one would have to own or share the said remoter server. With traditional computing, and with an own server, it would incur capital expenses, such as hiring admins, cost of the server and physical rent among others. The cost is almost constant, whether the server is fully used or otherwise.

In the traditional method, files and data are stored with other users and often with conflicting objectives. Lack of isolation exposes to the risk of poor performance and poor security. Most probably, one has to pay fixed charges regardless of how much of the storage portion or bandwidth is actually used. The way of subscribing to storage is not automatic. If more storage is needed, the administrator should be informed and wait for the upgrade of the subscription to occur. While it may appear like automatic, in almost all instances, there is some human admins performing the dirty work at the back-end.

Cloud computing changes the story in a lot of ways. It does not required owning a remote server since it is simple to rent one off the shelf. Furthermore, there is also no need to care about sharing the storage or remote server with others. The risk of privacy, security violations and performance violation is significantly minimized. It is ‘pay as you go or use’, thus equals to great savings. With cloud computing, one is not limited to simply storage. In the cloud, one could rent just about anything, from big cluster or servers, operating systems, block storage, software development platforms and favorite app software as well. There’s been a flood of new cloud-based offerings in the market recently, while intensification in merger-and-acquisition caused main shifts in the service provider community.

Cloud works as well only as a business manages it. The key to achieve the benefits that the system promises is with a centralized, integrated IT Service Management or ITSM system that is focused to demand management, service integration and capacity management. The only way to such a system is via proactive strategies thinking well ahead of the implementation. It’s necessary to take extra care in considering the move to cloud and ascertain that the organization is culturally and practically read to gain the most from what the computing style has to offer.

Microsoft and Google are two systems that could be considered as the future office or an organization. A lot of people think that Google is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Probably in part since Google has challenge the dominance of Microsoft in the technology field. The reality is that both Google and Microsoft offer competing products and their core business does not overlap very much.

The main strength of Microsoft is the Windows operating system, which continues to dominate the desktop via Mac OS and Linus and are gaining ground. On the other hand, the main strength of Google is the big portfolio of search products, which display ads as well. Microsoft is weak in terms of search and cloud computing. Google is weak when it comes to desktop computing and operating systems. Even though Microsoft has ‘phone home’ features inside, the truth is that Microsoft isn’t engaged in the type of massive collection of data that Google is doing. Google keeps entering new markets with products having very fussy privacy rules and policies. Microsoft has been the target of privacy advocates for a long time, and thus, they have cleaned up their act since they are a massive, mature organization.

Microsoft has seen the shift to cloud coming for some time, but has been slow to adapt it. The shift demands that it moves in exactly the opposite direction from where it dominates. The founding mission of Microsoft was to put a computer on every desk in every home, bringing it from the mainframe into people’s homes, otherwise decentralizing computing. Google is on the other hand re-centralizing computing. Google remains very dominant and too powerful. It has turned into the very thing it stood against originally. It has become a snoop and bully, managing to be ignorant and defensive at the same time. It has become the internet’s Microsoft.

Microsoft delivers preview of OneDrive - SharePoint Online Sync

Recently, at the ignite conference in Atlanta, Microsoft provided an update for delivering the number of SharePoint and OneDrive which features. Through this preview, users will be able to sync SharePoint online document libraries and OneDrive folders shared with others. The New activity center is integrated with One Drive sync client that enables the user to view sync and file activity at a glance which is previewed recently.

New sync functionality includes:-

• Sync SharePoint Online Document libraries and OneDrive folders
• “Activity center” is integrated into OneDrive sync client which enables the synchronization and the file activity for the precise view during the preview 

New browser capabilities includes:-

• Rich thumbnails and preview for over 20 new file types
• Edit and Access all the documents in OneDrive and SharePoint online from OneDrive browser client
• One can download multiple .zip files.

New mobile capabilities include:-

• Notifications to your iOS or Android device when someone shares OneDrive files with you
• Access to the SharePoint Online Files in OneDrive app or Android
• Multi-page scan enhancement for OneDrive app on Android
• Ability to see insight in OneDrive for iOS

New IT capabilities include:

• Enhancement to integration with Office 2016
• Simple, Flexible OneDrive user management in Office 365
• Dedicated OneDrive administration console in Office 365

Microsoft acquires Beam live streaming services

Microsoft recently announced its plan to acquire the live streaming service Beam which is the Seattle-based company that enables the users to interact with the streamers during the broadcasts. Beam came into existence to compete against streamers and their fans from Twitch and YouTube. For instance, users have the options to choose the weapons that another individual used to dispatch enemies, select a game mode or can fly a drone in the room. Beam became quite popular by streamers which can be controlled by players from afar and these converted into a unique streaming platform.

Beam has got the amazing SDK for the great user experience that goes far from simple chatting and viewing streams. With these, you can be rewarded with the extra XP points, boosters, and emoticons which solely depends on how often you tune in and how often you watch apart from interfacing with the streamers and getting involved in the game. 

It is obvious that Beam would grow explicitly larger after joining Microsoft, than by self. The CEO - Matt Salsamendi of the Beam echoed that, they would scale up much faster and quicker than before.

The upcoming popular games Sea of Thieves and Minecraft seems to be booming high from the Microsoft’s announcement as they are both titles that largely draw from Social Interaction. These both games are amazing and enables to create their own stories by playing cooperatively.

These games are the perfect type of interaction that Beam has brought in the limelight, especially when the interaction is open between 2-3 players all over the globe. Microsoft has already mentioned about these games explicitly during the announcement and hence it becomes clear, how far the beam integration does would travel.

These days gaming is quite in buzz and is becoming more and more social and with this integration, Beam would leave no stone unturned between spectating and actually getting involved.

Microsoft extended bug bounty program to target .NET Core

Microsoft has planned to extend its bug bounty program to include the .NET core and ASP.NET Core RC2 framework. The senior director of Microsoft’s Security Response Center, Jason Shirk confirmed that the latest program will remain active from June 7 to September 7 this year. Testing will be done on the platforms – Windows, Linux and OS X.

Jason added – the bounty amount will range from $500 to $15,000 and divided based on the severity of the bug and security. Now reporting could be done only after presenting a valid and unreported bug. This means all .NET developers should submit a valid bug to qualify for the reward. The acceptable vulnerabilities are privilege escalation bugs, remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, remote denial-of-service (DoS) weaknesses, security design flaws, XSS vulnerabilities and information leaks.

Not only this, if any of the reported bugs requires a special treatment, then the reward payment amount will increase from $15000. Shirk said, “Bounties will be worked alongside Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), regular penetration testing of our products and services, Security and Compliance Accreditations by third party audits and Operational Security Assurance (OSA) framework”.

Microsoft also has other bounty programs like Mitigation bypass, Microsoft's Nano Server beta, Bounty for Defense program, Online Services, and Nano Server beta.

Download .NET RC2 application from here.

Microsoft announced release of ASP.NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1

Microsoft made an announcement for the release of its next generation version of the NET platform - Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. Since the release of RC1 last November, Microsoft ASP.Net developers will get this biggest update of RC2. According to Microsoft, this can be used to build ASP.NET core, class libraries and console apps for Linux, Windows and OS X. 

With all new version of RC2, users will find major improvements, including new command-line tools for .NET Core is known as .NET CLI (Command Line Interface), new APIs, reliability and performance improvements. Also, DNX (.NET Execution Environment) tools are removed in this new version.

The .NET Core SDK Preview 1 is available for download on Windows, Linux and OS X platforms. Also, the user can use it with the Docker.

Release

The latest release has got three major components: .NET Core RC2, ASP.NET Core RC2 (formerly known as ASP.NET 5) and .NET Core RC2 SDK Preview 1. The changes arrived in ASP.NET Core are Visual Studio that has got full debugging support and support for authorization and authentication by using the Active Directory in both the Azure and on-premises.

Supported platforms

It will now support more operating systems, including –

• Debian 8.2+ 
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 
• Ubuntu 14.04 
• Centos 7.1 
• Linux Mint 17+ 
• Mac 
• Windows 

.NET Core deployment options

With the Microsoft latest release, ASP.NET developers will be introduced with following the new deployment options.

• Portable apps: User will be able to deploy apps that rely on a shared installation of .NET Core version that will enable it to work similar to previous .NET Framework. 
• Self-contained apps: This type of apps have no .NET core dependency. They include both application code and runtime, and required to compile particularly for the targeted platform. 

Additionally, the API in .NET Core RC2 faces two more changes, including the System.Drawing to support graphics and implementation of System.Data namespace for database applications.

.NET Standard Library

This .NET Standard Library is released for the very first time, which basically represents APIs that are available in all .NET implementations. This .NET Standard Library can be considered as the next version of Portable Class Libraries, however, the process of creating the libraries and the availability of the APIs set will be very much different. The user will experience more APIs and support for .NET platform with each .NET standard versions.

.NET Core Tools Telemetry

There is another new telemetry feature available which collects usage information about the .NET Core Tools that will allow Microsoft to make improvisation if required. The data collected are the framework and commands used and the versions.

The user may any time opt-out from this telemetry feature by setting DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT environment variable.

Microsoft announce extensive commitment for Apache Spark

Recently, Microsoft announced that it had made serious commitments for the open source Apache spark cloud-based framework, launching many new deals and offerings. Open source technology trend emerged in Microsoft since Satya Nadela CEO of Microsoft took over the company. This announcement was made at spark summit developer’s conference 2016 by Microsoft at San Francisco. It also announced that on-premises version of R Server Hadoop (which uses the increasingly popular open source R language for big data analytics and modeling) is now powered by Spark. The R refers to programming language and statistical computing and predictive analysis.

Moreover, Microsoft declared that R Server for HDInsight (basically the cloud-based form of R Server) is leaving a review later this late spring and Spark for Azure HDInsight is currently on and large accessible with support for Spark management from Hortonworks. Power BI, Microsoft's suite of business knowledge tools, will now additionally bolster Spark Streaming to permit clients to push continuous information from Spark directly into Power BI.

These declarations mark what Microsoft calls "a broad responsibility for Spark to power Microsoft's huge information and analytics offerings." These offerings incorporate Power BI and R Server, additionally the Cortana Intelligence Suite, which consolidates some of Microsoft's huge information and investigation management under a solitary umbrella that likewise highlights various machine learning devices. 

Microsoft, and in addition Google, Baidu, Amazon, Databricks and others, will highlight noticeably at the Spark Summit in San Francisco in a later week. Microsoft guarantees to share more data about its dedication to Spark at the occasion, as well.

“Microsoft flow” launched on iOS

Microsoft Flow is a work management tool which company recently launched and is now available on iOS play store. Microsoft Flow is an amazing tool that helps you to automate the file synchronization, alerting, data organization and much more. It offers an interface which allows you to merge two or more cloud services to create the smooth work flow.

IFTTT are the greatest competitor and they have been around longer and offers a larger list of supported connections. Office365, Dynamics CRM, PowerApps, Yammer are the Microsoft’s own business tools and it does more focus on it. Tools that are used in organizations like MailChimp, GitHub, Salesforce and others are not less concentrated. 

Microsoft Flows has many automated features like getting text msgs whenever anyone mails you, saving the result of the search on social media sites to an excel files, copying files from OneDrive to SharePoint and from Instagram to Dropbox and many more.

With Microsoft flow, you can even manage your previous created flows from your smartphone. This does means that you can navigate in the apps, check out the properties, history reports. It also checks out that there are no errors and they are performing smoothly.

Activity Feed is another feature, where you can check out last flow action. Flows that are not manageable, you can even configure the app to send you push notification. You can check out the issue in real time when something goes wrong, just launch the app. This is very much important for getting alerts when any important flow is taking place at that moment.

The company has reported that, in some interval of time they will expand the app which will include flow creation on mobile, triggering, and even the flows that take advantage of mobile signals. Microsoft added that, they are planning this app for Android too.

Microsoft Elastic Database Pools Extend Azure SQL Capabilities

Microsoft launched a performance tool option known as Azure SQL Database elastic pool option. This option features automatic scalability of cloud databases up and down according to the required condition. The announcement of the Microsoft Azure SQL database elastic pools were made last year at the Microsoft Build conference and its general release hits the market last week.

The enterprises are targeted by this new Azure feature that is a cost-effective option available which reduces cost arise due to over-provisioning of resources when anticipating spikes in application usage. This feature also improves the application performance when there are not enough database resources available. Microsoft Azure SQL partner group program manager, Tracy Daugherty wrote, “Each elastic database in the pool gets the resources it needs when it needs it, and eliminates the complexity of managing the performance of individual databases”.

He further wrote, “You can control the performance assigned to a pool, add or remove elastic databases on demand, and define the performance of elastic databases without affecting the overall cost of the pool. This means you don’t have to worry about managing the usage of individual databases.” This auto scalability option can be used according to the customer requirement.

Last year, Microsoft released its Premium Azure CDN tied to Verizon’s infrastructure. In the last week, Microsoft declared that they plan to expand opportunity to the customers streaming with Azure CDN from Akamai, which is already in preview phase from last year. A content delivery network is functioned by the Akamai, which includes 200,000+ servers in 120 countries.

The partner director of Azure CDN services and Microsoft Azure Media, Sudheer Sirivara said, “By joining forces with both Verizon and Akamai, Azure CDN creates new opportunities for our customers to achieve more with the power of the cloud – enabling them to select the right CDN for the regions in which they operate, as well as load balance across CDNs.”

Microsoft’s list of releases includes another name, Recovery Services, launched last week as an infrastructure management solution for its Azure Resource Manager. This facilitates its admins to deploy, track and manage the cloud resource together rather than individually. The recovery services can be used to both combine and automate the cloud and on premise backups. The release list is concluded with the Azure Test Drives service which is now live that allows the user to test the solutions which require test data or configuration on the Azure Virtual machine.

The bond between Microsoft and SAP touches the universe

Microsoft and SAP have been buddies for a considerable length of time and years, and today at the SAP Sapphire client gathering in Orlando, the two organization's CEOs, Satya Nadella and Bill McDermott declared that, they were taking the relationship to another level with more profound cloud incorporation between the two organizations.

The arrangement will empower SAP clients to run HANA, the organization's in-memory database item on Microsoft's Azure cloud. The two organizations declared an arrangement two or three years prior to permit clients to assemble HANA applications, exploiting the flexible assets which Azure (and undoubtedly any cloud) gives, yet this declaration makes that another stride, empowering clients to get to Azure security and administration abilities that have been reinforced since that past understanding was reported.

HANA likewise keeps running on AWS, however Microsoft was mindful so as to separate the two with Azure offering the capacity to handle bigger measures of information and RAM, which can prove to be useful when you're preparing enormous information loads. 

Likewise, there will be a more broad connection between SAP items, for example, Concur, SuccessFactors and Ariba and Office 365 to bring correspondences, coordinated effort, calendaring and the majority of the devices in Office 365 more specifically into the SAP tool set and the vice versa.

The arrangement bodes well given that the two organizations both have profound binds to the venture and share a typical arrangement of vast clients with comparable needs. It permits them to every play to their qualities without truly contending with each other.

The declaration goes ahead the heels of SAP's arrangement with Apple that the organization trumpeted only a few weeks prior to convey iOS to SAP clients. It likewise demonstrates a deliberate exertion on SAP's part to extend its business sector achieve utilizing associations as influence, R Ray Wang, primary at Constellation Research told TechCrunch. 

"SAP's been changing their methodology around organizations. they've taken an ideal opportunity to see what clients are occupied with and are working out organizations that adjust back to client's introduce base and business necessities," Wang clarified.

For Microsoft, it's around a stage play. "In the mean time, we are likewise seeing a restored Microsoft concentrated on stages. Satya needs to be the unbiased supplier to however many business application merchants as could reasonably be expected," he said.

This organization gives another approach to unite two organizations that as of now have a long history. The items and capacities reported today will be accessible some time in the second from last quarter of this current year.

Microsoft Research can (almost) read your mind!

In this highly demanding technological era, mobile devices have created a new way of interaction. Being a smart touch phone, interaction has become easier than before by using the capacitive touchscreen. However, Google and Apple have been trying since last few years to treat the fingers differently respective to the context. A new research by Microsoft has fixed its “one tap, one touch” paradigm.

Microsoft has implemented Google’s precognition of Force Touch’s pressure sensitivity where the mobile device can itself predict where the user’s finger is about to touch the screen. The fundamentals implemented on the new touchscreen is based on sensing an electrical disruption caused by two ways when finger approach near to the mobile screen and secondly the pressure detected while holding the edge of the mobile.

Self-capacitance sensor is what’s used in Microsoft prototype which is extremely sensitive towards the finger gestures. The finger touch can be detected before an inch or two away from the screen. This predictive touch feature can now pull up the controls by sensing the touch of how it has been held or be hovering on it. For instance, it can reveal the hyperlinks or pull up the video controls. It can also reduce the multiple actions by combining hover and touch to use the context menus.

The smart predictive touch by Microsoft can easily identify the rapid and precise tap. This means a precise tap will map to the exact button where the user wants to touch. Microsoft has created a demo right now and presented the research at the conference of Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) 2016 that may be used for real mobile devices in the future.

Microsoft’s Latest SQL Server 2016 to Hit Market in June

For all the technical geeks, here is a news from Microsoft. Next month on June 1, 2016, Microsoft will release the latest version SQL Server 2016.

The latest version of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is packed with significant features which are not available in its earlier versions. Microsoft is to release the business analytics and end-to-end data management solution meeting critical intelligence that will gain insights of data on any device applicable for the demanding applications.

SQL Server 2016 edition will be available in Enterprise, Standard Express, and Developer database management suite. The Developer edition is available for free to download. It is packed with features similar to Enterprise, however, it is designed for development and testing and therefore cannot experience production workloads. Microsoft is offering this edition with a free lifetime license and also have a Microsoft Software Assurance contract and offer free support to the Oracle users who switch to it before the end of the next month.

Comprehensive Features of SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is ideal for:

• Enterprise Scale Data Warehousing encapsulating in-memory columnstore which improves the query performance by 100x than disk based solutions. This offers accessibility to optimized MPP scale out software which can be combined with the scale out appliance architecture with Analytics Platform System (APS).
• Mission Critical Intelligent Applications delivered operational intelligence in real time by combining in-memory technology and built-in advanced analytics without affecting data and user performance.
• Intensive Business Intelligence Solutions are built up for mobile phones to deliver end-to-end mobile BI solution which can deliver insight on any mobile device. Additionally, users can user the modern web portal to manage the traditional reports, KPIs, and mobile reports.
• Always Encrypted Technology availability to ensure maximum security, which renders data protection to rest or active data without hampering the performance of the database.
• New big data solutions allow to query both the structured and unstructured data easily with T-SQL by combining relational and non-relational data using PolyBase technology built-in.
• A new Stretch Database Technology is introduced as Hybrid cloud solutions which lower the storage cost, streamline IT operations and increase high availability. This gives easy accessibility to the user of their historical data by security stretching the OLTP data to Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft SQL Server for Linux will be made available by 2017. The new edition of SQL Server 2016 is loaded with several extensive features by Microsoft. Upgrading or migration to new platform possesses complexity and demands effort. The post-migration environment will be fully optimized with the intuitive features. TatvaSoft, being a CMMi ML 3 and Microsoft Gold Certified Software Development Company possess the architectural knowledge and proven expertise for data migrations for mid to large size enterprise.