Panopto has announced the integration of video management service to Microsoft’s VC app Teams

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The video searching feature of Panopto will be integrated with MS Office 365 apps via MS Graph

Panopto, a popular name in the video management segment, has recently made an announcement that it will be now integrating its offering with Microsoft Teams. This will allow users now to go through their meeting recordings and videos on their platform. The video searching feature of Panopto will be integrated with MS Office 365 apps via MS Graph. This will now make users’ content discoverable along with Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, among other assets.

Panopto’s CEO Eric Burns has stated that the foundation for modern collaboration platforms is powerful search engines. Right now, Graph search API and Microsoft Word are forerunners showing the way. He furthermore added that on-demand videos had become the new documents, and as companies continue to build larger-than-life video libraries, the ability to search within the video has also become the main priority for many. Panopto’s latest offering is meticulously designed to allow users to securely search within the video in Teams. Knowledge workers and students now have the freedom to search content within their organization’s libraries. Microsoft Teams is now a widely used app, and it has a humungous user base. Video conferencing has now become an integral part of everyone’s learning and working environment.

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Microsoft aims at becoming carbon neutral and controlling its Scope 3 emissions by 2030

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As of now, the company's main motto is to make its emission percentage zero and help its partners bring down their emissions to 50 percent
Back in 2021, popular tech company Microsoft has managed to cut its emission by 17 percent. Recent sustainability reports show that the emission percentage was dwarfed because of the Scope 3 emission from the company's supply chain. As a response to the highlighted detail in the report, executives from Microsoft have stated that the company makes sure to eliminate Scope 1 and 2 emissions as it is under the direct control of the company, but it is difficult to eliminate Scope 3 as it generated by the consumers and partners.
As of now, the company's main motto is to make its emission percentage zero and help its partners bring down their emissions to 50 percent. In 2021, Microsoft had paid for removing 1.4mn metric tons of carbon from the air, and it is now planning to remove more than 1.5mn metric tons this year. Microsoft in 2021 has also certified two of its data centers as zero waste data centers. The company's strategy is to become carbon negative by 2030. This is expected to be achieved by bringing Scope 1 and 2 to zero and by adopting new methods, solutions, and purchase of zero-carbon energy.

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Microsoft unveils All-New Secure Mode in latest version of Edge

Microsoft in a recent announcement has stated that it has launched a ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ in its recent version of Edge browser, which will offer users greater protection against common vulnerabilities and security breaches. The latest Super Duper Secure Mode (SDSM) will help users alleviate browser attacks by inactivating the Just-In-Time component in V8.

V8 is a new technology that has been linked with a large number of security vulnerabilities in recent years. It is a robust and open-source JavaScript engine, designed and developed by the Chromium Project for Google Chrome and Chromium web browser. This technology will allow the engines to convert vital JavaScript into machine code, resulting in huge gains in speed and usability but losses for security.

In order to defend and overcome the plethora of bugs bundled V8, Super Duper Secure Mode will disable the engine, thereby removing "roughly half" of the issues present. Moreover, it also enables users to toggle between Balanced and Strict modes, giving them greater control over the encrypted security codes and allowing them to mitigate through different web sources.

Microsoft Starts to Roll Out Its Brand New Cloud Gaming to Xbox Consoles

Tech Giant Microsoft, in a recent press meet, has announced that it has started to roll out Xbox Cloud Gaming on Xbox Series X / S consoles. To get the game on their consoles, users will require a Game Pass Ultimate subscription. Microsoft also has stated that the users might not have access to the feature right away. The company will roll out its new cloud games in November to a subset of Xbox gamers and later to everyone in supported markets.

Cloud gaming on Xbox consoles will have several applications. Gamers can try demo games that are available on Game Pass without having to download them completely. Also, there is a multiplayer invite for a game; gamers can play it without installing the game. Xbox Cloud Gaming will allow the gamers to stream the game so they can jump right in.

With Xbox Cloud Gaming, users can play some most exclusive next-gen games like Recompile, The Medium, and The Riftbreaker, with the last-gen console. Microsoft's most famous Flight Simulator is not available yet, but the company has assured that it will add to its cloud game library in early 2022.

 

Azure Purview’s general availability was recently made public by Microsoft

Tech giant Microsoft has recently made an announcement regarding the general availability of its data governance solution ‘Azure Purview.’ The solution is known for providing unified data governance for cloud, app-based, and on-prem systems. The GA is part of the company’s previous announcement regarding the same that was made last year. Azure Purview will offer the customers both cataloging and management of data paired with governance. This will show the companies whether their data is compliant and secure. Azure Purview contains three main components, namely Data Map, Data Catalog, and Data Governance.

Data Catalog is basically a data search tool that has various filters like sensitivity labels, glossary terms, classification, and more. Data Map is a feature that is used to capture metadata on enterprise data present in the operations and analytics systems cloud and on-prem. Data governance is very integral for giving the users a bird’s-eye view of the company’s data. This view will help in gaining critical insights like data movement, distribution, and storage. The Azure Purview has many of Microsoft’s products integrated both on-prem and cloud, like Azure SQL, SQL Server, and Azure Synapse Analytics. Furthermore, the service can also connect the users with other non-Microsoft products like AWS, Oracle Database, and Snowflake.

 

xCloud will soon be available for users in Brazil, Australia, Mexico, and Japan

xCloud from Xbox Cloud Gaming was launched in various regions around the world and has received immense support from the gaming community. Recently, Microsoft had brought this service to browsers, including iOS support. The company is putting in tremendous effort, and several key features have received upgrades, and touch control support was also added to the same. Many big studios have also supported cloud streaming, and many new games for xCloud can be expected in the coming days.

In the TGS 2021 Showcase held by Microsoft, the company made an announcement that it will be bringing its cloud gaming to Brazil and Mexico in a few days and to Japan and Australia in a week. This is being considered as one of the biggest steps by Microsoft to reach global audiences, and we must also note that Microsoft is yet to make an announcement regarding its cloud gaming launch in countries like India. If you are one of those following the launch of xCloud, you must be wondering why it wasn’t launched on iOS sooner or at least with Android. The answer for this is, several restrictions were in the way by Apple, which caused the delay.

 

Microsoft is all set to launch the latest Office 2021 along with Windows 11 on Oct 5th

In the 2020’s Microsoft Ignite event, the tech giant had made an announcement that a newer version of Microsoft Office will soon be released for Windows and Mac OS. Recently, the company has given an official release date for the same. On the 5th of October, users can expect the launch of the new MS Office along with the latest Windows 11. MS Office is all set to be released in the perpetual version. This means that the users will no longer pay the fee on a subscription basis; instead, they will be playing at once.

With this type of license, the users will receive continuous updates until they want, and the app will work even after Microsoft stops releasing new patch-up updates for that version. This perpetual app is bound to just one device, and users cannot use it more than once. It is very feasible to go with the perpetual version when compared to the subscription model, and millions of users and companies are also going with this. Moreover, Microsoft is increasing the subscription fee for Office from next year. Some of the expected features in the new Office are Line Focus, Dark Mode, LOOKUP, and dynamic arrays for Excel. Read more blogs

 

Ausgrid has entered signed a multi-year deal with two tech giants to improve its cloud transformation efforts

Tech giants Microsoft and Infosys have signed a multi-year strategic deal with Ausgrid, one of the largest electricity distributors in Australia. The main motto of the deal is to establish Ausgrid as one of the leaders in the digital utility segment and help the company in its cloud transformation journey. Infosys has stated that the latest effort will boost Ausgrid's vision to expand its reach and empower communities with a focus on sustainability, affordability, and reliability.

The acting chief information officer of Ausgrid, Nick Crowe, has stated that there are more than 4 million Aussies who are reliant on the company's services, and they are maintaining their high-quality connectivity and reliability. He furthermore added that by accelerating the company's cloud transformation efforts by joining with Microsoft and Infosys, the reliability would be greatly improved.  Newer services from the company will also reach the market sooner. Ausgrid is certain that by adopting the cloud, they can increase their business operations' security, resilience, and agility. In its statement, Infosys has revealed that the cloud program for Ausgrid is designed to drastically improve the performance and cost to ownership of its IT applications and systems.