This week, there is a bunch of news to go around regarding Flight Simulator deliverables, including information on the closed beta for VR, the publicly available SDK, the Partnership series, and more.

The manufacturing multinational will be bringing domain-specific applications built on Microsoft's cloud platform to market. More ways to innovate the industrial workplace will also be explored.

Set for a November 10 release for Xbox consoles, the latest entry in the Gears of War series has now gone gold, bringing a new list of achievements worth a Gamerscore of 400, and more.

The firm has introduced a new production use case for early drug discovery, utilizing the PyTorch framework alongside Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning to support the latest research.

This week at Microsoft's virtual Ignite conference, we got a chance to interview Power BI CVP Arun Ulag, discussing announcements made regarding the Power Platform, and the future of Power BI.

This week's development update brings news regarding the Partnership Series, a new Feedback Snapshot, an updated SDK, new introductions to the Marketplace, a world update, and more.

The compliance updates for this year's Ignite conference include a next generation Compliance Manager, new connectors and APIs, an Application Guard integration with Office, and more.

The Dynamics 365 round-up for this year's Ignite conference offers a look at the new Project Operations Service, a fresh first-party voice channel for Customer Service, and more updates.

Enhancements to Power BI for Teams will be making their way to the new application as it enters public preview. New offerings for Power BI Premium users have been unveiled as well.

Azure API Management connectors and GitHub integration for the Power Platform are now available. Other updates to the platform utilizing Azure services have been introduced as well.

This week's development update brings newer versions for plenty of different components. These include the Partnership Series, the development roadmap, the Around the World Series, and more.

The visual refresh for Microsoft's Power BI service has been updated even further based on user feedback. It will soon be ready to be released as the default experience for all users.

The file storage service will now feature cross region replication in preview. Other enhancements that provide customers with more data security and operational agility have been introduced as well.

Version 4.1 of the Network File System protocol is now supported on Azure Files. It will be provided to customers in the form of a fully managed NFS file system as a service, in preview for now.

Project OneFuzz is an extensible fuzz testing framework for Azure. The new tool has been made available on GitHub under an MIT license, and will continue to be maintained and expanded.