Deep learning is behind many recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), including speech recognition, language understanding and computer vision, and it’s changing customer experiences in many of Microsoft’s applications and services, including Cortana, Bing, Office 365, SwiftKey, Skype Translate, Dynamics 365 and HoloLens, writes Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president, Microsoft … Read more »
Following devastating power losses when Hurricane Sandy hammered the U.S. East Coast in 2012, Cummins Power Generation provided nearly 400 generators and 30 miles of cable to the effort of getting the lights back on. The company’s field technicians slept on cots next to equipment so they could ensure performance around the … Read more »
Public cloud is not just past the tipping point; it’s now mainstream. Yet some misconceptions about the cloud persist, writes Julia White, Microsoft corporate vice president, Azure & Security. In a blog post, White addresses six of the top cloud myths. Among them is the myth that enterprises need only … Read more »
The air is thin and nerves are on edge in “The Turing Test,” a challenging first-person puzzle game set on Jupiter’s moon, Europa. As Ava Turing, an engineer for the International Space Agency, you’re responsible for finding out what happened to the ground crew stationed there – and answers aren’t … Read more »
Microsoft joins The Starbucks Foundation, the Schultz Family Foundation and many other businesses to support the annual No Child Sleeps Outside campaign by Mary’s Place. They’re part of an unprecedented effort to mobilize the King County, Washington community, contributing more than $3 million to provide safe emergency shelter for the estimated 500 unsheltered families … Read more »
The new Azure Active Directory (AD) Access Panel is now generally available, with a mobile-friendly layout, improved notifications and user controls, and a better group management experience. “Many hundreds of thousands of you have used the new Access Panel (MyApps) while it was in public preview to launch your Azure AD … Read more »
New additions to the Bing Search APIs can help developers enrich apps and experiences, such as video previews, license filters, retailer lists and recipes. One collection includes web, image, video and news search, embedding the knowledge and intelligence of web search directly into experiences and apps. With the Bing Video … Read more »
On Tuesday, at HPE Discover London 2016, Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud and Enterprise at Microsoft, and Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group at HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), talked about what both companies are providing around Azure as the hybrid cloud platform that can … Read more »
Management of the StorSimple Virtual Device Series is now available in the new Azure portal. You can use the StorSimple extension in the new portal to create Azure Resource Manager-based StorSimple managers to manage your virtual arrays. Also, Azure DevTest Labs now supports the capability to create your environments using … Read more »
Microsoft HoloLens is coming to Japan in early 2017, and pre-orders begin Friday, Dec. 2, exclusively from the Microsoft Store in Japan. “We continue to be inspired by the work developers and customers are doing with HoloLens across the globe,” writes Alex Kipman, Technical Fellow, Windows and Devices Group. … Read more »
In close partnership with Microsoft, The Museum of Flight is using technology to unlock unprecedented access to these aircraft. For the first time, visitors – both on site as well as remotely – will be able to ‘step inside’ the cockpits and interiors of these ...Read More »
