Microsoft has introduced a new Document Translation feature for its Azure Translator service in public preview. The company has announced that Translator Cognitive Service will now allow organizations to translate documents in a batch in various file formats preserving their original structure and layout.
Last week, Microsoft's business inadvertently made headlines as Ford, a previous infotainment partner opted to Google's Cloud services over that of Azure or even AWS. Most of the headlines were drawn from conclusions of the former Microsoft and Ford Sync ... Read more
Another day, another data center contract signed. With more businesses offloading their on-premises data to the cloud, cloud service providers such as Microsoft are continually on the lookout for areas to erect new datacenters to help provide local support. Noelle ... Read more
With the numbers tabulated from the cloud revenue wars involving industry leaders Amazon Webs Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, it seems that Microsoft's 2020 report stands head and shoulders above the rest. While Amazon's AWS cloud revenue was ... Read more
Microsoft has announced that its text-to-speech AI “Custom Neural Voice” has hit general availability. The technology enables developers to create personalized voices using their audio data and deep neural networks (DNN).
Last year at its Build conference, Microsoft launched Azure Quantum in limited preview for select Microsoft partners and customers. This week, the company has announced that the recently unveiled cloud-based platform is now available in public preview.
Ford announced earlier today that it would be going with Google Cloud in a six-year deal to help provide in-car connectivity and cloud service technology to power the company in the future. The specifics of the deal are vague at ... Read more
This week, Microsoft and PlayFab are celebrating their third year together. In the years since the January 2018 partnership began, the community has grown to include not only developers but big-name studios and engineers, too. James Gwertzman, General Manager for ... Read more
The pandemic hasn't slowed Microsoft's march to profits as it rounded out an arguably disruptive 2020 calendar, on a high note. According to the latest fiscal earnings report, Microsoft's Q2 2021 results were rather impressive with the company adding $15.5 ... Read more
Yesterday Microsoft and SAP announced their plans to expand upon their already established collaborative relationship to include integrating Microsoft Teams with SAP intelligent solutions. With both companies being cloud solution providers, the newly announced collaboration comes as straightforward news where ... Read more
Julia White, a Microsoft veteran and currently CVP of Product Marketing for Azure, Developer Tools, and Servers is leaving the company to join SAP as Chief marketing and solutions officer.
Seems no better way to sell you cloud services and products than to use them yourself. Mary Jo Foley over a ZDNet is reporting Microsoft's chief technology of Azure Mark Russinovich recently spoke about how the company has followed through ... Read more
Late yesterday, Amazon's unsealed complaint regarding the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI contract win going to its cross-town rival finally made its way to the light, and the information held within offers a different take on Microsoft's ultimate procurement of the ... Read more
Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to expand its cloud reach in Sweden with sustainability as their key objective. Now, over one year later, the company has confirmed that it’s building its first sustainable datacentre region in Sweden in 2021 ... Read more
Microsoft’s announced a virtual event for November 18th intended to illustrate the utility of its Azure cloud platform to Linux-centric developers. The company’s Open Azure Day will feature two keynotes, four breakout sessions and 12 technical deep dives showing how ... Read more
PUBG, the game that brought the battle royale genre to the spotlight two years ago will soon use Microsoft Azure for its multiplayer infrastructure. The transition will affect PUBG on PC and consoles, as well as PUBG mobile on iOS ... Read more
Earlier this year, we learned that Microsoft was working on a new virtualization service for enterprise customers named “Cloud PC.” The service will apparently be built on top of Microsoft's existing Windows Virtual Desktop offering, and allow customers to use ... Read more
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is now offering its new self-swab kits to help people collect their coronavirus (COVID-19) samples at home, and then mail them for testing to labs.
Microsoft today announced that it’s making its Azure cloud-computing services to the space industry. As a part of this announcement, the company also revealed a new partnership with SpaceX to bring high-speed, low-latency satellite broadband capabilities to the most remote locations on earth.
Microsoft announced this morning that they are planning to significantly reduce the cost of their Azure PlayFab Party service to such a degree that the new pricing could apparently “save teams up to 90%” when compared to what they currently ... Read more
Over the course of 90-days the researchers found 40 exploits, 20 of which were considered "Critical or Important severity security vulnerabilities."