Five major Microsoft moves across Azure, Office and Windows

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The Redmond, Washington-based software giant has been pushing out enhancements across its major products at a rapid pace, with a series of significant updates unveiled just last week around its Azure cloud platform, Office 365 and Windows 10.Coinciding with the general launch of the Kubernetes container orchestration service on the Azure cloud, Microsoft added five new AKS regions including parts of Australia, Europe and the US."People who prefer to dedicate more screen space to the commands will still be able to expand the ribbon to the classic three-line view," wrote Jared Spataro, Microsofts corporate vice president for Office and Windows marketing, in a blog post.Cable noted that Microsoft has used artificial intelligence to choose devices for initial rollouts of the Windows 10 release, which "our feedback data indicate would have a great update experience.The first feature, Self-Deploying mode, eliminates the need for IT teams to enter their credentials and manage basic settings such as region and language in order to deploy a new Windows 10 device.

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