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Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform Stratis' support to private and public blockchain solutions, Ethereum and Hyperledger, opens the ecosystem to mainstream adoption by businesses.

Global tech giant Microsoft is going to contribute to the development of a Russian corporate blockchain. The company’s representative office in the country signed a memorandum with a blockchain startup to enhance the technology development in the country.

Microsoft recently registered a patent for a technology that uses human activities for cryptocurrency mining. According to the document, the technology leverages our brain waves and body temperature needed to perform various online tasks.

Sooner or later, Microsoft Corporation, a Washington-based multinational technology firm, that develops, produces, licenses, supports and sells PC software, consumer electronics, personal PCs, and other correlated services, will make some changes so that people can use the Bitcoin symbol in Excel spreadsheets when recording information. The technology giant is aware that Bitcoin’s reputation is rapidly growing globally compared to other currencies. However, the company decided to first feature just one leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, and which is Bitcoin in this case.

In the past, individuals, groups and corporations would use books to record and manage data. Depending on the nature of the project or initiative someone, every piece of information could end up being recorded by a pen or a typewriter for future reference.

Microsoft’s subsidiary in Taiwan is considering a partnership with two Asian firms, aiming to improve all aspects of the current financial market. The newly-born union hopes to create a strong blockchain industry and infrastructure in China. E-commerce, finance, and entertainment are the first industries to be developed.

Microsoft has announced in an official post that the company will embrace decentralized identity systems built on blockchains such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. One of the main corporations on the financial market will support blockchain-based decentralized IDs (DIDs) via the Microsoft Authenticator app.

One of the leading online travel agencies in Australia and New Zealand, Webjet, and technology giant Microsoft have announced the launch of a first-of-the-kind proof-of-concept (PoC) solution based on Blockchain technology and designed to transform the travel industry.

Microsoft is announced  as the premier sponsor of the second Ethereum developer conference “Devcon2” on September 19-21, 2016 in Shanghai.