Mary Jo Foley

Senior Contributing Editor

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Disclosure

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 open sources the inference engine at the heart of its Windows machine-learning platform

Following its alliance with Facebook around the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX), Microsoft is open-sourcing the ONNX runtime engine for machine learning.

December 4, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Making sense of Microsoft's approach to AI

Microsoft has a master plan for trying to get more customers to jump into the AI waters. Here's an attempt to explain how containers, accelerators, and APIs all figure in.

November 15, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's Cortana boss Javier Soltero is leaving the company

Microsoft's head of Cortana is going to depart the company before the year is over, as Microsoft brings more of its research projects into its Experiences and Devices group.

November 6, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

LinkedIn launches translation feature that builds on Microsoft AI technologies

Microsoft's LinkedIn unit has developed a new dynamic translation service for posts in the LinkedIn news feed, and used some of Microsoft's cognitive services to build it.

June 28, 2018 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft to integrate Visual Studio with AI services

Another piece of Microsoft's 'Open Mind Studio' falls into place: A new extension enabling developers to use AI services from inside Visual Studio.

November 15, 2017 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft to continue to partner with Baidu, following former VP Lu's move

Microsoft plans to seek continued partnership opportunities with Baidu following the move of Microsoft's former vice president Qi Lu to head up Baidu's AI and act as COO at the Chinese search giant.

January 18, 2017 by Mary Jo Foley in Artificial Intelligence