Mary Jo Foley

Senior Contributing Editor

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Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNET, eWeek, and Baseline. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons,… 2008). She also is the co-host of the "Windows Weekly" podcast on the TWiT network. Got a tip? Send her an email with your rants, rumors, tips, and tattles. Confidentiality guaranteed.

Freelance journalist/blogger Mary Jo Foley has nothing to disclose. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). I do not own Microsoft stock or stock in any of its partners or competitors. I have done paid speaking engagements for Microsoft and some of its partners, but none where all the content is not my own.

Latest from Mary Jo Foley

Microsoft buys 'spend intelligence' vendor Suplari to bolster Dynamics 365

Microsoft is bringing together 'spend intelligence' insights twith Dynamics 365 with its acquisition of Suplari.

July 28, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft brings AI to GitHub to create a smart programming Copilot tool

Microsoft is making a technical preview of a new Visual Studio Code extension available that is designed to help programmers write code smarter and faster using AI technology from OpenAI.

June 29, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft to make coding 'in plain English' easier with PowerFx and GPT-3 AI model

Microsoft's integration of the OpenAI GPT-3 technology into Power Apps is the first time GPT-3 will be available commercially in one of its own products.

May 25, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft in 'advanced' talks to buy Nuance Communications: Report

Microsoft may be looking to acquire one of its health and AI partners, Nuance Communications, according to a report, and could be willing to pay as much as $16 billion for it.

April 11, 2021 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft releases preview of Lobe training app for machine-learning

A public preview of Microsoft's Lobe app is available for Windows and Mac users, and enables them to training and store machine-learning models locally on their machines.

October 26, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft to end support for Cortana app on mobile; Harman Kardon speakers in early 2021

Microsoft is continuing to focus its Cortana digital assistant on productivity scenarios by phasing out Cortana Skills starting in September and dropping Cortana mobile app support and more in 2021.

July 31, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft to spin off its Xiaoice chatbot work into an independent company

Microsoft's Xiaoice social chatbot is going to become part of a separate company which will prioritize commercializing the AI technology..

July 13, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft buys vision system vendor Orions Systems

Microsoft is looking to combine the video and image content analysis technology it is acquiring with Orions Systems to supplement its own Dynamics 365 Connected Store app and Power Platform services.

July 8, 2020 by Mary Jo Foley in AI & Robotics

Microsoft continues to build out its Azure Cognitive Services API family

Microsoft is adding a new healthcare-focused text analytics interface to its family of AI programming interfaces, and it's making generally available Custom Commands and Form Recognizer APIs, as well.