Microsoft's Political Platform : Microsoft Town Hall

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Microsoft unveiled a new platform for technological development i.e, the politics. Microsoft came up with a new crowdsourcing system hosted on Microsoft Azure called the "Microsoft Town Hall", a software that enables you to easily create a destination for people to voice their opinions, identify problems and also offer solutions.

Town Hall aims at candidates and politicians as well as political interest groups. It creates a social media-rich site which provides a platform for gathering information, expressing opinions, creating a place where visitors can make queries, vote on political issues, post and also respond creating healthy community conversations.Town Hall is a part of Microsoft's Initiative called Campaign Ready.

Town Hall is currently available for the PC and Microsoft. It will also be available on  iPhone, iPad, Google Android and Windows Phone 7 in the coming months.The Town Hall software can be downloaded free of charge.

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