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Microsoft flexed its cloud and AI muscles at Build 2020
The company’s investments in cloud and machine learning are starting to deliver real products. It’s a bold proposition, but one with the potential to propel Microsoft’s productivity software ahead of Google’s. These components can be inserted into emails or even a chat app like Microsoft’s Teams.
Microsoft's Fluid Framework collaboration comes to Office online
Microsoft's next-generation collaboration platform, Fluid Framework, is making its first appearance in Office and Outlook online.
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare is an elaborate suite of telehealth tools
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now available in a public preview and as a free six-month trial. Microsoft’s service is also designed to make it easier for care teams to work across the many parts of America’s dizzying healthcare infrastructure.
How Microsoft plans to make life easier for Windows developers
Microsoft is aiming to unify its two different software APIs, Win32 and UWP, with Project Reunion.
HoloLens 2 heads to South Korea, Taiwan and more countries
Microsoft's HoloLens 2 AR headset is headed to more countries later this year, including Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea.
Microsoft's OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs
Microsof'ts new Azure OpenAI supercomputer is one of the top 5 systems in the world.
Microsoft's Lists is a powerful to-do app for businesses
The lists are fairly versatile, too.
Microsoft's Build conference will be a 'digital' online-only event for 2020
Microsoft's big event for developers in Seattle is traditionally where it shows off a lot of things that also impact us as consumers using Windows, Office or its other products, but this year it will be an exclusively virtual one. The company revealed in a statement to The Verge that "...we will deliver our annual Microsoft Build event for developers as a digital event, in lieu of an in-person event. We look forward to bringing together our ecosystem of developers in this new virtual format to learn, connect and code together." Yesterday, Washington governor Jay Inslee announced a ban on events with more than 250 people that will run at least until the end of March. While that's set to expire before the Build event in May, Microsoft is acting now to prepare people for a "virtual format" instead of waiting any longer to see if it's extended. Facebook F8 and Google I/O were scheduled to take place earlier in May, and both have already canceled any in-person component of those developer events. Last year Microsoft showed off the new Linux kernel for Windows 10 and Minecraft AR, and this year we expect to hear a lot more about its support for developers creating apps to run on Windows 10x and dual-screen devices like the Surface Neo.
