Microsoft announced the preview of Project Brainwave, "programmable hardware" that sits on Intel's FPGA chips and is designed to help "greatly speed up" AI calculations.
Microsoft gave notice last week that it will enable end users to initiate a free one-year trial of Microsoft Teams, and these free trials can be triggered by both Office 365 subscribers and non-Office 365 subscribers, starting on June 1.
Microsoft provided an update during this week's Build Conference event for developers regarding custom functions for Excel and related capabilities.
Microsoft this week offered a progress report on its Azure confidential computing project, mostly highlighting its partner efforts.
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that Windows 10 version 1803, also known as the "April 2018 Update," is available from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center.
Red Hat and Microsoft offered a progress report on their collaboration efforts this week and promised to deliver a preview of Red Hat OpenShift on Azure "in the coming months."
Microsoft announced during this week's Build Conference that its Azure Kubernetes Service, formerly known as "managed Kubernetes on Azure," will reach general availability status "in the next few weeks."
A number of developer enhancements are coming soon in preview to Microsoft Teams, according to a Monday announcement coinciding with the Microsoft Build developer event.
Artificial intelligence and machine learning took center stage at the Microsoft Build 2018 conference in Seattle on Monday.
- By Michael Desmond
- 05/07/2018
The Windows 10 IoT April 2018 Update was released earlier this week, with Microsoft promising that it'll make edge devices "more powerful."
The Windows Admin Center's software development kit is now available as a preview, Microsoft announced on Thursday.
The improvements include a number of items specific for IT pros with regard to managing security, storage limits and site migrations.
Microsoft is blurring the lines of its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 messaging with its April product update announcements, which were quite plentiful.
The Windows 10 April 2018 Update was officially released on Monday, but getting it can be somewhat nuanced.
The Office 2019 "commercial preview" for Windows 10 is available as of today, according to a Microsoft announcement.
Microsoft's next semiannual channel release of the Windows 10 client is bringing new operating system features and will be available starting on Monday, April 30.
Microsoft is bringing its OneDrive file-sharing and collaboration capabilities seen with Windows desktop and Web applications to Office for Mac, as well as to Android and iOS mobile applications.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" of Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that's designed to make it easier for developers to spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure.
Windows Insider Program testers got a new preview build of Windows Server 2019 this week.
Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 on Tuesday.