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Hands-on with Microsoft’s high-end Surface Book 2
Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 is the most powerful mobile Surface device yet. It easily blows away the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and, of course, the old Surface Book. It’s also one of the odder devices in the lineup, though. It’s not just a Surface Pro with a rigid keyboard. It’s a relatively heavy base with a powerful processor and graphics card and a big battery… Read More
Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation and launches Azure Database for MariaDB
Microsoft today announced that it is joining the MariaDB Foundation, the nonprofit behind the popular relational database founded by the original developers of MySQL. As a platinum sponsor, the company is joining Booking.com, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent …
View More Microsoft joins the MariaDB Foundation and launches Azure Database for MariaDBMicrosoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure
Databricks has made a name for itself as one of the most popular commercial services around the Apache Spark data analytics platform (which, not coincidentally, was started by the founders of Databricks). Now it’s coming to Microsoft’s Azure platform in the form of a preview of the imaginatively named “Azure Databricks.” Read More
Microsoft’s period of congenial cooperation could be over
A couple of years ago while a guest of Marc Benioff onstage at Salesforce’s Dreamforce customer conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said something that seemed to signal a new period of amicable cooperation for his company. Several pieces of evidence seem to suggest that the period of friendly cooperation that was in full bloom in 2015 could be over, and not just with Salesforce. Read More
Microsoft Black Friday deals: XBox One S, Surface Pro, mixed reality headsets, and more
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Even though the XBox One X opened to mixed reviews, Microsoft is still a major player in the gaming and tech industry.
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Skype launches Photo Effects – sticker suggestions powered by machine learning
Not content with merely launching its own take on Instagram and Snapchat’s Stories, Skype today is adding another copycat-like feature to its app: photo stickers. The company says it’s introducing new “Photo Effects” (as it’s calling these stickers), which include things like face masks, decorative borders, witty captions, and more. However, unlike the photo… Read More
Microsoft Word’s new ‘Resume Assistant’ uses LinkedIn to make your resume better
Microsoft and LinkedIn are teaming up to make one of the most important parts of job-hunting easier: writing your resume.
The companies introduced a new Resume Assistant feature that puts LinkedIn data directly in Microsoft Word to help users write b…
Microsoft acqui-hires cinemagraphic photo app Swng
Computer vision and clever imaging technology remain hot areas in consumer and enterprise apps, and today Microsoft is picking up a startup called Swng Technologies to give it some IP and talent in this department.
Swng Technologies had developed a cinemagraph app called Swng (originally called Polaroid Swing) that lets you take impressionistic, GIF-like short videos that you can then… Read More
Big tech goes five for five
As October came to a close, three of the five largest American tech companies beat earnings expectations.
The quarterly results of Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet were impressive, with each firm bringing in both more revenue and profit than analysts had expected. And, as we explored at the time, the companies managed to come up with their wins in unique fashion. And so it goes this time… Read More
6 turning points in esports history
Esports is a modern phenomenon that demonstrates just how fast an idea can become an industry in the digital era. Major League Gaming’s Chris Puckett discusses the biggest factors that led to esports’ mainstream success.
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Salesforce and Google are the latest pals in the cloud
Salesforce and Google inked a deal today that could provide easier integration between Salesforce tools and Google’s G Suite and Google Analytics. It also named Google as a preferred cloud provider for its core services as part of its international infrastructure expansion. The preferred provider part might sound familiar because in May, 2016, Salesforce signed a similar deal with AWS… Read More