Microsoft adds natural language search to its Power BI preview
Microsoft's Q&A natural-language search technology is one of the new additions to its Power BI for Office 365 preview.
Microsoft's Q&A natural-language search technology is one of the new additions to its Power BI for Office 365 preview.
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 making available a third preview test build of its Hadoop for Windows Azure product is available, as is a first public preview of Hadoop for Windows Server.
Like Facebook, Microsoft is focused on making search social. And it's not just via Bing that it's doing this.
Microsoft is planning to introduce a free version of its Power BI business-intelligence tools/service, and will cut prices on its new, fully featured Pro version.
Microsoft's high-performance computing team is now the 'Big Compute' team. Expect more Windows Azure deliverables from them in the future.
Microsoft is turning from incubation to reality a touch- and speech-enabled business intelligence product, currently known as InfoNavigator.
Microsoft plans to integrate Revolution's R programming language implementation and platform for statistical computing and analytics into SQL Server, Azure HDInsight and Azure Machine Learning.
Microsoft is launching the pilot of an online certification program, called the "Microsoft Professional Degree", with a data-science-focused competency.
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.