Microsoft pins a price tag on its PowerBI business-intelligence tools
Microsoft's Power BI for Office 365 self-service business-intelligence tool bundle is still in preview. But its three-tiered pricing plan is now public.
Microsoft's Power BI for Office 365 self-service business-intelligence tool bundle is still in preview. But its three-tiered pricing plan is now public.
Microsoft is highlighting some of its big-data and analytics projects at this week's TechFair research fair.
Microsoft is launching the pilot of an online certification program, called the "Microsoft Professional Degree", with a data-science-focused competency.
Microsoft is making available its first public preview of HDInsight, the Hadoop big-data framework on Windows Azure technology it is developing with Hortonworks.
At Advertising Week 2012, Microsoft will be talking up the ad potential of Windows 8 and Skype.
Hekaton, Microsoft's coming in-memory database engine, will be built into the next version of SQL Server. Meanwhile, SQL Server 2012 SP1 is now generally available.
Microsoft is supporting Apache Spark with its HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server software and services.
Microsoft has rearchitected its logo and its Bing.com site to reflect the fact Bing is no longer just a search engine on a Web page.
Microsoft is looking at its appliance, cloud and big data products and services as its most likely to be added to its billion-dollar business club.
Microsoft data-platform chief and 24-year company veteran Ted Kummert is leaving the company.