Microsoft open-sources C++ STL on GitHub
Microsoft has made its implementation of the Standard Library of C++ open-source on GitHub. The implementation becomes available under an Apache 2.0 license, with exceptions for LLVM.
Stephan Lavavej from Microsoft gave a number of reasons for the move to a company blog post. One of the reasons ... Read more
‘Microsoft wants to make Azure Stack container-based’
Microsoft is most likely in the process of redesigning Azure Stack, the company's hybrid cloud service. The redesign should change the infrastructure on which Azure Stack runs into a container-based infrastructure.
The project to reorganize the underlying infrastructure for Azure Stack is codena... Read more
Microsoft acquires maker of infrastructure assessment platform Movere
Microsoft has announced that it will take over Movere. Movere is a software developer that sells an infrastructure assessment platform. The platform allows companies to inventory their technological assets, without spending hours on manual work.
The assessments are particularly important for infrast... Read more
Elasticsearch comes to Microsoft Azure
Elasticsearch will also be available on Microsoft Azure, thanks to the launch of a beta version. Later this year, the service should also be made publicly available.
According to Elastic itself, this means that organisations that have chosen Azure as their standard now have the opportunity to use th... Read more
Microsoft makes Vision AI Developer Kit widely available
Microsoft has made its Vision AI Developer Kit widely available through Arrow Electronics. The developer kit is a hardware base built on Qualcomm's Vision Intelligence Platform and designed to run artificial intelligence (AI) models locally and integrate with Azure ML and Azure IoT Edge.
The develop... Read more
Skype adds concepts and bookmarks to chat feature
Skype has added a series of improvements to its chat options, hoping to stand out from the competition. The message function now includes concepts and bookmarks.
The option for concepts works similar to e-mail. Users write a message, but don't send it yet. The message is then saved in the conversati... Read more
New Windows 10 preview adds recovery option from the cloud
In the preview of Windows 10 20H1 - build 18970, Microsoft has added an option that makes it possible to reinstall the operating system via the cloud. In addition, there is a new desktop mode for tablet users.
Some users of Surface devices can already download Windows to reset their PCs instead of h... Read more
Microsoft comes up with toolkit for conversational AI
Microsoft introduced Icecaps, a toolkit for conversational AI, on Thursday. This is a subfield in Natural Language Processing for creating realistic conversations with AI. Icecaps is an acronym for Intelligent Conversation Engine: Code and Pre-trained Systems.
The tool uses multitask learning to cre... Read more
Google introduces Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory
Google announces that it will provide a managed service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD). The service should make it easier for AD users in the cloud to monitor and manage domain controllers.
AD traditionally runs on on premise servers. Today, more and more companies are migrating more and mor... Read more
Microsoft brings exFAT to Linux
Microsoft is going to make the technical specifications of exFAT open source, and wants to support the addition of exFAT to the Linux kernel. This means that from now on, exFAT devices will be able to function on Linux kernels without many additional additions.
When exFAT was a patented technolog... Read more