In the fractured, spammy world that is consumer PC software downloads, Microsoft is looking to make their Microsoft Store a more central hub but they need the help (and enthusiasm) of developers. In a major showing of good will, Microsoft is changing up their revenue sharing structure to give developers a bigger cut. Developers of […]
View More Microsoft is looking to entice app developers with a better store revenue splitCategory: MS Build 2018
Live Share in Visual Studio lets you code and debug together
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that Live Share, its previously announced collaborative development feature for Visual Studio and Visual Studio code is now available to developers who want to give it a try. Until now, this feature, which allows developers to better work together, was only available in a private preview — […]
View More Live Share in Visual Studio lets you code and debug togetherMicrosoft’s Project Ink Analysis lets developers add handwriting recognition to their apps
As part of its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Project Ink Analysis, a new service under its Cognitive Services brand of AI products that will allow developers to add support for handwriting and other shape recognition to their apps. The company says that this service will be available for Windows and other platforms. Microsoft […]
View More Microsoft’s Project Ink Analysis lets developers add handwriting recognition to their appsMicrosoft wants developers to embrace Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft Graph
The Microsoft Graph is an interesting but also somewhat amorphous idea. It’s core to the company’s strategy, but I’m not sure most developers understand its potential just yet. Maybe it’s no surprise that Microsoft is putting quite a bit of emphasis on the Graph during its Build developer conference this week. Unless developers make use […]
View More Microsoft wants developers to embrace Microsoft 365 and the Microsoft GraphMicrosoft and DJI team up to bring smarter drones to the enterprise
At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, Microsoft and Chinese drone manufacturer DJI announced a new partnership that aims to bring more of Microsoft’s machine learning smarts to commercial drones. Given Microsoft’s current focus on bringing intelligence to the edge, this is almost a logical partnership, given that drones are essentially semi-autonomous edge computing devices. DJI […]
View More Microsoft and DJI team up to bring smarter drones to the enterpriseMicrosoft launches a unified API for all of its AI speech services
At its Build developer conference in Seattle this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on its AI and machine learning services. For the most part, that means launching new services and bringing some existing services to new places. With the plethora of different AI services the company now offers, it’s maybe also no […]
View More Microsoft launches a unified API for all of its AI speech servicesMicrosoft’s new IntelliCode is a smarter IntelliSense
Microsoft today announced IntelliCode, a new experimental developer tool for Visual Studio users that brings more of the company’s artificial intelligence smarts to software development. With IntelliSense, Visual Studio has long featured a smart code completion feature that makes writing code faster and less error-prone. With IntelliCode, Microsoft is going a step further. This new […]
View More Microsoft’s new IntelliCode is a smarter IntelliSenseMicrosoft Kinect lives on as a new sensor package for Azure
Microsoft’s Kinect motion-sensing camera for its Xbox consoles was walking dead for the longest time. Last October, it finally passed away peacefully — or so we thought. At its Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced that it is bringing back the Kinect brand and its standout time-of-flight camera tech, but not for a game console. […]
View More Microsoft Kinect lives on as a new sensor package for AzureMicrosoft launches Project Brainwave, its deep learning acceleration platform
Microsoft today announced at its Build conference the preview launch of Project Brainwave, its platform for running deep learning models in its Azure cloud and on the edge in real time. While some of Microsoft’s competitors, including Google, are betting on custom chips, Microsoft continues to bet on FPGAs to accelerate its models, and Brainwave […]
View More Microsoft launches Project Brainwave, its deep learning acceleration platformMicrosoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHub
Late last year, Microsoft launched Visual Studio App Center, its new unified mobile app development lifecycle solution for developers who want to write iOS, Android, Windows and macOS apps. The service allows developers to automate the building, testing, distribution and monitoring of their Objective-C, Swift, Java, C#, Xamarin and React Native apps through a single […]
View More Microsoft brings its Visual Studio App Center lifecycle management tool to GitHubMicrosoft brings more AI smarts to the edge
At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on artificial intelligence and edge computing. To a large degree, that means bringing many of the existing Azure services to machines that sit at the edge, no matter whether that’s a large industrial machine in a warehouse or a remote oil-drilling […]
View More Microsoft brings more AI smarts to the edgeMicrosoft says 700M devices now run Windows 10
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that over 700 million devices now run Windows 10. Almost exactly a year ago, that number stood at 500 million. In addition, the company also today noted that Office 365 now has 135 million monthly active commercial users, up from 120 million last October. Back in 2015, […]
View More Microsoft says 700M devices now run Windows 10