Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's reorg memo from last week is worth a closer look. There are some interesting hints about Microsoft's plans for rumored business intelligence, data curation and meeting technologies.
Microsoft Research's Project Trinity is now available for public testing in the form of Graph Engine 1.0 public preview.
Microsoft researchers are showing off some of the many big-data, machine-learning and natural-user-interface technologies under development.
The 10-year Microsoft-Yahoo search pact continually seems like it's threatening to unravel. But will that realistically happen? If so, how -- and when?
A fully open-source version of Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows, built with contributions from Microsoft, is available to beta testers.
Microsoft's newest Power BI feature -- publish to web -- is very powerful, but maybe too much so, at least at the moment.
Microsoft and Hortonworks' implementation of Hadoop for Windows Server hasn't disappeared or been cut. It's actually in private preview, according to a new Microsoft roadmap.
Microsoft has acquired Revolution Analytics, a company that develops R programming-language-based analytic solutions for open-source and proprietary big data platforms.
USAFacts, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's latest venture, is an initiative that only a true Excel and SQLServer fan would undertake.
Microsoft has bought analytics firm Metanautix and plans to integrate its technology with SQL Server and the Cortana Analytics Suite.